Scottish Ecologist

Red admiral (open vs closed) ❤️🫐
Devil's-bit scabious (pink vs purple)🩷🍇

📍 Thurso, Scotland

White melilot
Common toadflax
Ox-eye daisy
Mugwort

📍the canal that runs through Maryhill, Glasgow

Harebell 🫟
Quaking grass 🩷
Flowering sundew❗
Marsh lousewort 🌿

📍Ben Lawers, middle of Scotland

✨Last chance to book tickets!✨

🦫Beaver Trust production "Balancing the Scales"
📽️ THIS FRIDAY 25 July, 7.00 pm (start 7.30pm)
📍Soutar Theatre, York Place, Perth

STAY after for a discussion panel of experts Q&A.

Admission is FREE
(donations welcome)

BOOK HERE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-scree...

In Scotland you get three newt species:

smooth
palmate
and great crested

these here are likely palmate

smooth and palmate can be easily confused due to similar size and markings

but male palmates have blackened, webbed hind feet during breeding season!

📍Dingwall, Highlands

v i s i t o r s 🌿

How many creatures can you name? 👀

📍Fife, Scotland

EXCITING NEWS! 🦫

WHERE:
The Soutar Theatre (AK Bell Library), York Place, Perth ✨

WHEN:
Friday 25 July, 7.00 pm✨

WHAT:
A screening of Beaver Trust's film production "Balancing the Scales" will be shown! 🦫✨

Admission is FREE:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-scree...

Doors open 7.00 pm

Machair (prt 2)

Was also dive-bombed by some aggy (but beautiful) lapwings (if you've not heard their calls before, give it a search)

Bird's-foot trefoil
Sea thrift
Scurvy grass

📍Vatersay, Outer Hebrides

Machair is a coastal habitat found on the Atlantic or west-facing shores of Scotland, like in the Outer Hebrides.

It is a type of grassland made up mostly of shell fragments, giving it an incredible beauty.

📍Vatersay, Outer Hebrides

Nettle rust fungus 🟡 (𝘗𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘢)

Thought this was a mad slug

but it's *just* a fungal disease which can severely distort stinging nettles

Apparently it doesn't harm the plant?!

📍Glasgow, Scotland

Good day to be in the field! (prt.2)

Common starwort (lesser stitchwort)
Dame's rocket
Crosswort
Granny's bonnet

📍Lothians, Scotland

Good day to be in the field!

Common fumitory
Shining cranesbill
Ground ivy

📍Lothians, Scotland

BLUE-RAYED LIMPETS

taken with a micro lens on a smartphone 💙

At some cool rockpools in the clearest water I've ever seen in Scotland

the smaller they are the brighter the blue!

📍Berneray, Outer Hebrides

🫟
Early purple orchid
Alpine squill
Milkwort
Heath spotted orchid

📍Barra, Outer Hebrides

𝘌𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘭𝘺𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘰𝘯 (False Puffball)

SLIME MOULD

📍Inverness, Scotland

Red elderberry
Golden saxifrage
Wavy bittercress
Periwinkle

📍West Fife, Scotland

Pyramidal bugle
Turkeytail
Cuckoo flower
𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘩𝘭𝘪𝘢 spp. (algae)

📍Valleyfield, West Fife

The great Scottish countryside ☀️

Did you know Dunnet Head is the most northerly point of the UK (not John o' Groats!) with cool birds and views of Orkney.

Did a bit of a road trip round Caithness / Sutherland before heading down.

Scotland on a sunny day is just 😘

📍Dunnet Head (and the journey)

Spiral tube worms - a marine polychaete worm (𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘴 spp.) found on seaweed! Teeny wee shells

And some bryozoans creeping in too

📍Golspie beach, Scotland

Mystery Footprints 🐾

Although there were plenty beaver field signs, I believe them too small for beaver.

I saw no water vole field signs, and don't believe any live close to a city centre (Perth).

Even asked colleagues and online, got a mixed response.

I think it's probably a rat...😭?

#rats

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yellow star-of-Bethlehem (𝘎𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘢 𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘢) 💛
wood anemone (𝘈𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘢) 🤍
spring crocus (C𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘶𝘴) 💜
pink purslane (𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢) 🩷 [EDIBLE]

SPRING IS COMING! The early flowerers are out 🌱

📍Perthshire, Scotland

#rewildingscotland #scottishlandscape #springflowers

HAPPY WORLD REWILDING DAY!✨

Yesterday at Scotland's Nature Student Conference, we heard many fantastic talks on nature restoration, and many included... beavers! 🦫 ✨

Well done to Emily Simpson, a PhD student at the University of Stirling. She is studying wild beaver in Scotland.

#SNSC2025

Fab article below!

**We will have a stall at PERTH Museum, this Saturday (15th March) from 12-4pm in Gallery 3. Come say hello!**✨

**We will also be at the Scotland's Nature Student Conference at the Royal Botanic Gardens, EDINBURGH (18th & 19th March).**✨

theconversation.com/beavers-offe...

www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/nat...

🤬🤬🤬

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Starts slow. Worth it.

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Okay my lil #bioacoustics brain is freaking out, video opens so many doors! Not a bat scientist, but I recorded these bats echolocating locally. Time expansion playback to make their ultrasonic vocals audible 😊

Gonna prep some whale sounds to share, what species do ya'll wanna hear? 🐳🧪

Fantastic news! 🦫🐾

Beavers have now been legally released in England (Purbeck, Dorset), without fencing or constraints, for the first time
✨🐾🦫
Huge congratulations to our friends at Beaver Trust for helping get this LONG overdue decision on beaver release in England over the line.

#rewildingbritain #rewilding