Tag: Highlands
Posted on January 21, 2019
by Megan
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I haven’t posted on my blog for an embarrassingly long time now – something I will try to rectify in 2019 – however, a recent assignment on my MSc course has given me the perfect opening to get writing again! For context: I am… Continue Reading “Beavering Away on the Farm”
Category: Conservation, Farming, Forestry, Land and Wildlife Management, NatureTags: Agriculture, Aspen, Atlantic Salmon, Beaver, CAP, Castor fiber, Countryside, Debate, Ecosystem Engineer, Environment, Freshwater Pearl Mussel, Game, Habitat management, Highlands, Keystone Species, Livestock, Local, MSc, Nature, Norway, River Management, Rural, SciComm, Scotland, SNH, Stakeholder, Tayside, Vlog, Wildlife, Wildlife Management, Woodland, Woods
Posted on April 26, 2018
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This is a copy of a guest blog I wrote for Scottish Land and Estates, following the Lantra Scotland awards. As it is, the last few weeks since Lantra Scotland’s Land Based and Aquaculture Learner of the Year awards ceremony have gone past in… Continue Reading “Lantra Learner of the Year Awards”
Category: Land and Wildlife ManagementTags: Change, Climate, Culture, Education, Gamekeeping, Guest Blog, Highlands, Integrated Land Management, Landscape, Lantra, Lantra Scotland, Nature, North Highland College, Resilience, Rural, Rural Youth Project, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Scottish Land and Estates, SRUC, Training, UHI, Wildlife Management, Year of Young People, YOYP2018
Posted on December 9, 2017
by Megan
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*Disclaimer* So I wanted to write a post about something I came across yesterday when out hunting, but before you read further, you should be aware that this post contains photographs of a shot deer, various images of the carcass, and of the postmortem… Continue Reading “Deer Health – Jaw Compaction and Body Condition”
Category: Conservation, Deer, Land and Wildlife Management, Nature, UncategorizedTags: Biology, Biosecurity, Deer, Deer Health, Deer Management, Deer stalking, Dentition, Ecology, Food, Grazing Management, Habitat management, Health, Highlands, Hunting, Integrated Land Management, Jagd, Land management, QDMA, Red deer, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Scottish Wildlife, Subsistence Hunting, Venison, Wildlife, Wildlife Management
Posted on April 7, 2017
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It’s been another interesting and busy couple of weeks. First up… ILUC17 The 30th and 31st of March saw the sixth annual Integrated Land Use Conference take place at Carrbridge. This years theme was ‘Balancing the Benefits of Woodland Expansion’. An interesting couple of… Continue Reading “Spring Update”
Category: Conservation, Land and Wildlife Management, NatureTags: Deer, Deer Management, Ecology, Environment, ERI, Forestry, Fungi, Heather, Heather Trust, Highlands, Hunting, ILUC, ILUC17, Jagd, Lichens, Nature, Outdoors, Peat, Roe Deer, Roe doe, Roebuck, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Spider, Spring, UHI, Uplands, Wildlife Management, Woodland
Posted on March 22, 2017
by Megan
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We’ve had a busy couple of days so far this week with our Deer Management Groups’ deer count. Finally grabbing a couple of days of decent – but still pretty choppy and snowy – flying weather, deer stalkers from within the management group gathered… Continue Reading “High Flying and Deer Counting”
Category: Conservation, Land and Wildlife Management, NatureTags: ADMG, Culling, Deer, Deer Management, Deer stalker, Deer stalking, DMG, Ecology, Environment, Flying, Habitat Impact Assessment, Habitat management, Helicopter, Highlands, Hinds, Hunting, Nature, Outdoors, Red deer, Scotland, SNH, Stags, Surveying
Posted on February 5, 2017
by Megan
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The Scottish Highlands have their own unique cold. I’m insistent of this fact, despite my colleague’s protestation that “Cold is cold.” Having just had the chance to sit in the Alps at -16, and the Highlands at 1 degrees Celsius, I can confirm the… Continue Reading “Stalking the Scottish Savanna”
Category: Conservation, Land and Wildlife ManagementTags: Challenge, Conservation, Culling, Deer, Deer stalker, Deer stalking, Ecology, Flow Country, Forestry, Highlands, Hinds, Hunting, Jagd, Land management, Lifestyle, Outdoors, Red deer, Scotland
Posted on May 20, 2015
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I’ve said before now that I am interested in conservation in all its forms. This is one of them. A real passion of mine throughout my life has been taxidermy. I remember, as a kid, wandering round museums looking at the mounted up animals and imagining them… Continue Reading “Taxidermy Eagle Restoration – Conservation of a Different Nature”
Category: Conservation, TaxidermyTags: Antique, Aquila chrysaetos, Art, Before and After, Bones, Collectible, Conservation, Crocodile, Eagle, Feathers, Fox, Highlands, Historic, History, Museums, Nature, Osprey, Otter, Paint, Re-building, Re-colouring, recolouring, Restoration, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Scottish Wildlife, Sutherland, Talons, Taxidermy, Wildlife
Posted on May 14, 2015
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I wrote this piece on High Nature Value farming in August 2013. It was originally written to go in The Northern Times but never went to print. I did it for the RSPB hence the emphasis on them. You can find further information on the High Nature Value Farming website.… Continue Reading “High Nature Value Farming in Durness”
Category: Conservation, Crofting, FarmingTags: Aberdeen Angus, Balnakeil, Bird watching, Cheviots, Community, Conservation, Corncrakes, Croft, Crofter, Crofting, Discussion, Diversification, Durness, Ecology, Environment, Farming, Farmland waders, Great-yellow bumblebee, Habitat, Habitat management, Heritage, High Nature Value farming, Highland Cattle, Highlands, HNV, HNV farming, Holyrood, Land use, Less Favoured Areas, LFASS, Lifestyle, RSPB, RSPB Scotland, Rural, Rural Priorities, Scottish Government, Sheep, SRDP, Sutherland
Posted on May 9, 2015
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Day 3: Our final day arrived and we headed over to Glencanisp, stag spotting as we went! We arrived at Glencanisp Lodge as the sun came out, couldn’t have asked for better, more inspiring weather for our last day! This final day saw us… Continue Reading “Young Crofters 20:20 Gathering 2015 (Pt. 3) and Further Progress”
Category: CroftingTags: Assynt, Community, Croft, Crofter, Crofting, Crofting Commission, Cross Party Group, Debate, Discussion, Farming, Glencanisp Lodge, Heritage, Highlands, Holyrood, Infrastructure, Jobs, Lobbying, SCF Young Crofters, Scotland, Scottish Crofting Federation, Scottish Government, Support, YC20:20
Posted on May 9, 2015
by Megan
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Day 2: The next day saw a fresh set of workshops and talks. We kicked off with a talk by Ronnie Eunson, a crofter from Shetland specialising in breeding Shetland Cattle. This was a very engaging talk following Ronnie’s journey from keeping Texel’s and… Continue Reading “Young Crofters 20:20 Gathering 2015 (Pt.2)”
Category: CroftingTags: Assynt, Community, Conservation, Corncrakes, Croft, Crofter, Crofting, Debate, Discussion, Diversification, Durness, Farming, Glencanisp Lodge, Great-yellow bumblebee, Heritage, High Nature Value farming, Highland Cattle, Highlands, HNV farming, Kylesku, Land use, Machair, Pigs, RSPB, RSPB Scotland, Scotland, Scottish Crofting Federation, Shetland, Shetland cattle, Stewardship, Tamworth, Uist
Wayfaring and Wandering 