Birdwatching Holidays & Guided Day Tours based in Nethybridge, Scottish Highlands.
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Professional Birding & Wildlife Guiding Service based in the Scottish Highlands run by John Poyner.
This long-term research for peatland waders reveals some interesting trends which are likely to be due to a range of factors including, land use, prey availability and climate change. We are working to help the birds and their breeding habitat through support for peatland restoration across the Flow Country and beyond.
https://orlo.uk/Peatland_Waders_Research_I9yGe
What is your most wanted bird to see when visiting the Highlands ? 🤔
Wondering what’s about in Highland? The SOC Highland latest sightings page is updated daily bringing you all the latest bird news.
Latest bird sightings in the Scottish Highlands
Wee Cresties. Always a favourite !
The Merry Dancers are back again !
Our first Beavers for over 400 years. Amazing news.
Autumn just a stunning time to visit the Highlands. Join us for a fantastic four night & wildlife break, based at the Grant Arms Hotel, Grantown. 🍁 highlandnature.co.uk/september-2024…
Late summer blooms today, Bog Asphodel and Grass of Parnassus.
Always a favourite to see!
🐦🌲 Saturday Star Species: Crested Tit! 🌿✨
It's time to meet one of the most iconic species in Abernethy Forest – the Crested Tit!
These punk-rockers of the bird world, with their distinctive hairdos and trilling calls, are always a treat to spot as they work their way through the pines.
Despite being widespread across Europe, in the UK, Crested T**s can only be found in northern Scotland, primarily in ancient Caledonian Pine Forests like Abernethy. As they move through the trees, they feed on pine seeds and small invertebrates. They also visit bird feeders, and the feeders around the Loch Garten Nature Centre can be a great place to spot them, especially during the colder months.
Deadwood is vitally important for Crested T**s. Not only does it support a diverse community of insects and other invertebrates, which are a primary food source for Crested T**s, but it is also where they excavate their nests!
Have you spotted a Crested Tit before? We’d love to hear your stories or see your photos of these charming birds!
Hello summer we have missed you ☀️💛
As anyone that has stayed on one of our Short Breaks knows, the hotel food is superb!!
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The Grant Arms boasts an enviable reputation for its fine food, renowned Scottish breakfast, and an impressive selection of whiskies, gins, and local ales. Book a table and join us for dinner or Sunday lunch.
Superb day out on the Minch. Started quiet but that soon changed !! 100s of Common Dolphins, Humpback & Minke Whale, Bonxie, Storm Petrels and surprise of the day a probable Laughing Gull as we neared Stornoway !!
Tempted to join us last minute for a Short Break ? Still some places unfilled.
https://www.highlandnature.co.uk/august-2024.html
Grant Arms Hotel Grantown On Spey
Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker getting in on the limelight.
NEW : Our guided day tour all inclusive packages are perfect for anyone coming to stay in the area for a short while and interested in booking a tour.
https://www.highlandnature.co.uk/day-tour-packages.html
Good news !
Old and local names for birds are fascinating, anyone any more interesting examples?
In Scots, Ring Ouzels can be known as Hill-Chacks, Mountain Blackbirds, or Rock Starlings.
“Ouzel” is an Old English word for Blackbird, and the latin name Turdus torquatus refers to the white breast band of a male Ring Ouzel as “torques” means collar.
This magnificent summer visitor was captured by our camera trap two years ago today on the uplands of RSPB Scotland's Abernethy Reserve.
The collection of Scots names was taken from local writer and artist Amanda Thomson’s “A Scots Dictionary of Nature.”
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A superb facility!
Visitors to the Cairngorms National Park can now learn about nature and how they can save wildlife following the completion of Scotland’s Wildlife Discovery Centre. Based at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s (RZSS) Highland Wildlife Park, the £6.5 million project comprises three new buildings, an ambitious community outreach programme and a biodiversity action plan to help protect native species.
https://www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/6_5_million_wildlife_discovery_centre_to_open_at-Highland_Wildlife_Park.aspx?s_id=812879547
Enjoying another great week with Mike for the Grant Arms Hotel Natural History week.
Some amazing mammatus clouds today. Probably not a sign of good weather ahead
Forest expansion in the CNPA….
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What were we watching? Any guesses, you can hear it singing.
A surprise to find this rather inquisitive Greyhen today !
Superb last day of our Short Break, starting at dawn to see a local Black Grouse lek. Two rather forlorn looking males were soon joined by six others and the dancing began! It wasn’t long before a female appeared attracted by the spectacle. Red Grouse displaying across the moor and the seep of the first Meadow Pipits overhead. A drive round a local loch had newly arrived Redshanks along the shoreline just feet away, Goldeneyes and a surprise Crossbill perched in a roadside pine. Heading up to the coast, the light was fantastic, Velvet and Common Scoters, Long-tailed Ducks, Eiders and on the shoreline we even managed to read a few rings on birds amongst a large flock of c300 Knot. Local feeders provided great views of Tree Sparrows and Yellowhammers, and on the nearby estuary we added Bar-tailed Godwits, flocks of Teal Wigeon as well as the first Lessser Black-backed Gulls of the year. Over 80 species for the trip, with some great weather thrown in too. We still have one place left on our April Short Break! https://www.highlandnature.co.uk/marchapril-2024.html
A tranquil Lochindorb this morning, Song Thrush echoing over the water on the final day of our Short Break. www.highlandnature.co.uk
Spot the Tawny Owl ! Shortly afterwards a Goshawk flew over at tree top height, White-tailed Eagle flushing grouse on the moors, and a very confiding Mountain Hare. Ending the day feeding a flock of Snow Buntings on Cairngorm.
Challenging conditions to find the Great Grey Shrike today!
As it says on the can….Snow Buntings.
A stroll through Anagach Woods, Grantown.
So many photos but just listen to them.
Incredible sea on the east coast during Storm Babete. This pushed numbers of Grey Phalaropes and Storm Petrels close inshore, seen all along the coastline.
Amazing to watch a flock of migrating Whooper Swans resting on a rough sea off Nairn yesterday.
River Spey
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