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New toys arrived this week, which meant Christmas came early.  We’ve invested in some new thermal imaging equipment for undertaking deer surveys in certain habitat types. The Guide 517 IV Pro arrived with a wide angle lens and 80mm detachable lens – extremely powerful piece of kit that can detect heat up to 2km away, and record stunning high-resolution video along with sound files etc.  We’ve been trialing it extensively…

Always love to visit Glenmore Forest Park and see the progress of the Scot’s pine as it marches up the hillsides with the reduced level of red deer grazing that has been present for several decades now.  Pine scrub now developing nicely on the lower slopes of the Northern Corries of Cairngorm, as well as extensively on the flank of Meall a’ Bhuachaille above Glenmore Lodge – great to see…

  Stunning weekend spent on Eilean Moileach on Loch Ba at Rannoch Moor.  A remnant semi-natural birch woodland covers the island, which we reached by Canadian canoe. Stags were roaring all day and night, and the Rowans were heavy in fruit.  Found some little Aspen, which was great.  Plenty of deer dung in amongst the ground vegetation, with beasts obviously swimming from the mainland to get at the better grazing…