Really interesting visit to Coulin Estate today to see and hear about their management inc some very effective Rhodie control and their pinewoods. The image below showing an area that was thick with Rhodies 30yrs ago and now covered in thick birch regen.

Huge, branchy standing dead Scot’s pine in Dell Woods, Abernethy NNR today.

A great day for volunteering (in Volunteer’s week) to carry some montane Willows to Loch A’an with Cairngorms Connect. Cracking day out.

Handa at its best today. Seemed like far fewer bonxies, which I guess is to be expected, but still loads of wildlife.

Sensational weather in Rum NNR up the cuillin.

What links our Rum National Nature Reserve and the Red Planet? Amazingly, ancient rocks from the island are playing an important role in an international space mission to discover more about Mars (1/5)

Great day in Glasgow yesterday for a cycling fan.

A Krumholtz twisted Scot’s pine… that for the last 8 years or so seems to be growing a lot faster and more upright resulting in a very odd growth form. At first I thought the tree had fallen over.

Pretty cool, but I think photography has ruined the northern lights experience though 😂

Tough day out there for the wildlife today. #StormBabet

Still stormy #StormBabet

Was a pleasure to take a group of folks from @EndangeredLands funded projects across Europe around Invereshie & Inshriach NNR

Flock of waxwing in Golspie #waxwing #highlanndbirds

BIG news alert! 🚨Our Peffery Catchment Restoration Project has been awarded £1.2 million of Nature Restoration Funding. We’ll be doing lots of large (and small) projects in the catchment over the next 3 years. Here’s a 🧵 about it:

Pretty cool original cuttings from ‘The Sphere’, 22 December 1951 about ‘Britain’s first nationally-owned nature reserve’ at Beinn Eighe.

Want to work on a National Nature Reserve in the Highlands? 3 seasonal posts currently being advertised for this summer: countryside-jobs.com/job/mar24/natu…

Always worth the early start to count the black grouse leks. Particularly enjoyed the cock trying to get the aerial advantage by using the top of a pine tree.

Our new Storymap reveals the scale of habitat restoration at some of our finest nature sites. Repeat photography at our National Nature Reserves shows expanding Caledonian pine forests, spreading birch woodlands and restored peatlands. Explore here: orlo.uk/FXDZH

NatureScot photography project reveals scale of habitat restoration at Highland nature reserves 🔗 news.sky.com/story/naturesc…

Amazing freshwater habitat in space created from the root plate of a fallen Scot’s pine tree at Beinn Eighe NNR