The raucous rooks
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I am lucky enough to have a back garden where I have found myself spending A LOT more time in because of our current lock-down. I am using this space …
What is our winter wildlife up to?
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We grow accustomed to the thought that animals are at their most active in the spring and summer, but this isn’t necessarily true for all. Indeed one of our most …
Swallow season is coming to an end
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Spring in Scotland marks the return for many migrant birds that come to breed over the summer months, one of them being swallows. They are part of a family of …
What I missed while I was home
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Almost every time, when I am on holiday, I feel like I miss something, while I am not in the Visitor Centre. It was the same in the beginning of …
The sound of October
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In September I was away from the visitor centre quite a lot. When I came back at the end of it, a nice surprise awaited me, the first geese had …
Living among the beasts of the basin
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In an attempt to get closer to wildlife, volunteers at the Montrose Basin Visitor Reserve have set a series of camera traps. A camera trap captures motion up to a …
Well that was a little Auk-ward.
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What to do when you find wildlife in unusual places. If you asked a member of the public what they think working for the Scottish Wildlife Trust means. I reckon …
What’s that big black bird?
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A question asked by 8 year old John. That, young John, is Phalacrocorax Carbo. Or more commonly known as – a Cormorant. John’s beautifully simple description aside, how else would one recognise …
The King of the Basin
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As I prepare to write this blog, the star and inspiration of it has just so happened to appear in front of me sitting on it’s usual perch. Yes, that’s …