Alan Bird

We are working in the western Cairngorms just now re-visiting old monitoring plots in the woodlands.  It’s a bit of a race to get them done before the first snows of winter arrive. Update: the snows arrived this weekend… in an interesting contrast, back down in the Tay valley it seems like winter will never come.  Got an interesting picture on the way home of deer and horses sharing the…

We went back to SNH’s peat seeding trial site at Coignafearn this month for our annual round of monitoring.  Lots happened in the past year.  The trail camera photos from winter and spring show the massive degree of variation in weather up here – one image taken at peak snow, and then other after the thaw!

All guns blazing just now on the collaborative Monadhliath peatland restoration project, working across 6 estates with (at its peak) a plan to have 24 excavators working.  We were working today on developing some new approaches to gully re-profiling.  On the way home I came across this herd of Sika deer contentedly grazing in a roadside field on Loch Ness-side. So many of them around these parts!