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Revisiting the Great Climb at the head of Loch A'an |
27 August 2009 I set off today to revisit the site of the Great Climb outside broadcast at the head of Loch A'an, as well as take some grid references for the GIS now being developed for the monitoring data. |
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 9 August 2009 June's stunning weather finally broke in the first week of July and its been a struggle to get stuff done on the hill, let alone take pictures. |
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 24 June 2009 I was out today on a long recce as far as Ben MacDui, looking for birds and plants and generally having a good look around. There are one or two very special and rare breeding birds and I wanted to see if any were about. However, I hadn't quite expected the shock of seeing a Chinook stooging around the area. |
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 20 June 2009 A lovely day on the hill with friends Hugh and Marlene, south of Achnashellach on a Munro called Maoile Lunndaidh, meaning the bare wet place. It proved to be anything but....
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4-5 June 2009 Snow is now lying on the Cairngorms, down as low as 600m and more is forecast. My work on the plateau is suspended during weather like this so I grabbed the opportunity to head off on a long-awaited trip to Raasay with friends Hugh and Marlene, to visit the bothy at the northern tip of the island. |
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 29-30 May 2009
Every year I try to find a calm forecast to bivvy out on the plateau during May or June. Right at the end of May that opportunity presented itself and I made the necessary preparations to head up the hill with sleeping bag, bivvy bag and camera. |
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What's happening to my ears? |
 26 May 2009 Up taking photographs and assessing snowlie for dotterel breeding. What a windy day! |
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 16-17 May 2009 Bothy trip number one for Nelson - in to a lovely little bothy I have seen from hills around but never actually been to, at the back of the Torridon hills called Poca Buidhe. |
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April is the time of year to ski uphil!!? |
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Off to the Alps to stretch my skiing legs...
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3 March 2009 Having been away for 5 weeks, it was marvellous to be reunited with Nelson, who has grown so much! |
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Generation trip down under, February 2009 |
 I've just come back from a wonderful trip to New Zealand with my mother....
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9th November 2008 In early November I acquired my new assistant.....
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The far north with Grey Seals pupping. |
 20 September This weekend I went with friends to one of the northernmost Scottish bothies to see Grey Seals at the only place where they come ashore on the mainland to pup, on the eastern shore of Loch Eriboll. |
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2 September 2008 Time to get going on the monitoring of paths on the Cairn Gorm plateau. Fortunately, we are being blessed with light winds and good visibility, so there is very little hardship involved! |
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Trees at the natural treeline - a rare occurrence in Scotland. |
27 August 2008 The Krumholz Scot's Pine trees on Creag Fiachlach were the raison d'etre of today's field visit.
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22 August 2008
Another trip to see some special places in the Scottish Highlands took us across to Wester Ross, where we revisited the site of my undergraduate dissertation at Rassal Ashwood NNR, near Kishorn.
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How much damage does an F-15 Eagle do when it crashes into a mountain? Two of them? |
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Site of the fuel tank drop, where the first plane touched the ground.
20 August 2008. Today saw a long-overdue visit to the crash site of 2 F15s, which ploughed into the north top of Ben MacDui in March 2002. |
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In pursuit of local wildlife..... |
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Newly-hatched newt 13th August 2008. Today we dodged the rain showers and went looking for local wildlife....starting with the Moray Firth Dolphins at Chanonry Point. |
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Trees above the treeline. |
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Salix myrsinites - Whortle-leaved Willow 3rd August 2008 Montane woodland in Scotland is scarce and badly in need of restoration. It has been the focus of several recent and current projects and on August 3rd I was delighted to be able to join Diana Gilbert, one of the UK's few experts in this area of expertise, to conduct some fieldwork in Glen Feshie. |
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