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The Ashy Mining Bee (Andrena cineraria) was thought to be extinct in Scotland until Murdo Macdonald found it in Morvern in 2002. There were a couple more records in 2012, and then this year Teenie Wilson found it on Lismore and I found it at Taynuilt, where I took the above photo. It makes small Read More …
We’ve had a lot of good moths in the trap this year, but the moth of the year so far has been this Clouded Magpie seen in daytime on the banks of Loch Awe on 20 May. It’s only been recorded this far north twice before, the last being by Clive Craik in 1980. Carl
Our next field trip is on Tuesday 3 June on the Isle of Eriska. We have kindly been given permission to park in the hotel car park, and will meet there at 10 a.m. From there we will explore the island looking for plants, edible and otherwise, and anything else that is flying, buzzing, crawling Read More …
Our next field trip is at Cuil Bay on Sat 19 April. We meet at 10 a.m. at the roadside parking area towards the end of the Cuil Bay road (NM 9784 5528). We will be looking at Marsh Fritillary sites to see how the caterpillars are doing this year and will also visit a Read More …
Barren Strawberry (Potentilla sterilis) This month’s midweek recording field trip will be on Tuesday 25th March at 10 a.m. Meet in the Appin Community Car Park opposite Appin Church and Appin Village Hall (NM 9387 4590). From there we will head south-east along the Sustrans cycle track, continuing the survey of the track which we Read More …
David Croucher has made some Swift nest-boxes which are free to anyone who wants to put them up. There may also be help available with installing the boxes. Swifts are losing their breeding sites due to modern roof renovations, so these nest-boxes can help them find a home. They have to be placed as high Read More …
Our next walk is beside the River Avich on Saturday 15 March. We meet at 10 a.m. at Barnaline Forestry Commission car park (NM 970 139), which is on the right as you drive south, about 4 miles after Inverinan and 1 mile before Dalavich. From there we’ll walk to Loch Avich along the track Read More …
Jan Hamilton’s photo of Hazel Gloves from our visit to Ballachuan on Feb 15. Lots more pictures from the walk are at : – LNHG visit to Ballachuan Hazelwood
Our midweek recording field trip this month will be on Tue 25 Feb at South Creagan. Meet at 10 a.m. at the car park just south of the Creagan Bridge (NM 9740 4382). If coming from the south, after Sutherland’s Grove you pass a long stretch with no houses to the right, then as you Read More …
Samples (Click on image to enlarge) Your 2014 wildlife calendar from local naturalist & photographer Bill Jackson. Available from August 2013 for £6.00 plus £1.20 postage UK. Order your copy now from :- Bill Jackson, Auchnasaul, by Clachan Seil, Oban, PA34 4RH or purchase your calendar at the next meeting at Seil Island Hall to Read More …
On the night of Monday 10 June I set up the LNHG moth trap at Barcaldine School, and the next morning, with the help of Rosy Thomson and the staff and pupils, we examined the moths and worked out what they all were. We caught 49 moths of 29 different species (and a wasp). Photos Read More …
From 23 April to date (16 May), Redpolls have been a regular visitor at my bird feeders, which is very unusual. LNHG member Sallie Jack and 2 people who post to the Highland Biological Recording Group site have also been getting these for the first time. Are they more numerous than usual at the moment, Read More …
LNHG now has the use of a moth trap. If anyone would like the trap set up in their garden please let me know. I would set it up in the evening, then come round the next morning and photograph all the moths and eventually send you a list of them. (some I can name Read More …
Ash Dieback is expected to kill nearly all the Ash trees in Scotland – but a few may survive and we can help them. I was at the Ash Dieback seminar run by the FC in Stirling yesterday. Notes from the meeting are here. Please read if you are concerned about the disease and want Read More …
The Seil Natural History Group is now the Lorn Natural History Group! A big thank you to everyone who voted. The motion was carried by a considerable margin. The group’s name now accurately reflects the geographical spread of its activities. The group’s constitution was also changed to refer to “the Island of Seil, Lorn and Read More …
The Ptarmigan is seasonally camouflaged by its feathers with a mixture of grey, brown and black in summer, whilst in winter it becomes totally white except for its tail and eye-patch, which remain black. It breeds in the highest mountains of the Highlands of Scotland on the Arctic like landscape there. Birds are residents, seldom Read More …