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Alan Bird

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Deer monitoring on Scotland’s National Nature Reserves

We started a program of laying out transects on some of SNH’s NNR’s this week.  With it being so snowless, we would not have expected to be able to work at the top of Creag Meagaidh but did.  Normally, it would be covered in ice climbers at this time of year. On the way to work later in the week I came across this freshly killed roe deer, yet another…
February 14, 2019
Weekly News

Wild deer and road traffic

Travelling around Scotland a lot, we do see a lot of deer-vehicle collision evidence.  Here’s some deer on the way home from the pub (them, not me) the other night.  And then some more who decided they wanted to get a bit of a closer look at us.  Not ideal…
January 22, 2019
Weekly News

Monadhliath Peatland Restoration – update

We are continuing to develop new peatland restoration techniques for use in the Monadhliath mountains.  Today we were experimenting with dams in which storm flows are piped through to relieve pressure on the structure.  It was a really nice day, quite a contrast from the snows that arrived a few weeks ago.  Here’s one of our trucks at almost 3,000ft parked on the road verge – bit of an advert…
December 10, 2018