Weekly News

A fun day, which confirmed we are all getting older…  Roddy came out on his ‘go to work with dad day’ and helped us do some work down at Dumfries.  A lot of Fallow deer down in this area, causing plenty of impact on the ground, and so plenty for him to learn about!

  We are putting a bit of time into peri-urban deer at the moment, including exploring the potential for landscape-scale dung counts and also thermal imaging as a compliment.         Also working on a new method to quantify lowland deer impacts by bringing together a wide range of information types such as those relating to deer-vehicle collisions, damage in gardens, damage to arable crops and impacts in…

We continue to work on new ideas, our latest being an investigation into whether fixed wing light aircraft can be used to undertake direct deer census work in the uplands.  Caledonian Air Surveys of Inverness are working on the project with us.   Here are a couple of images obtained from a recent test flight.  We plan a large-scale test in the Monadhliath this coming month, and hope the new…