Autumn and Winter on Ulva
The swallows have flown, the trees have shed their leaves and the Winter gales have arrived. Here are a few pictures of recent sightings and activities on or near Ulva.
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- Sgioba Luaidh Inbhirchluaidh - Waulking song group
The group spent a day in Sheila's Cottage much to the delight of our visitors to Ulva!
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- Painted from a picture of the Bothy taken by a member of a walking group and kindly emailed to us!
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- Rare Oyster Plant
Found growing on Ulva's South Shore
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- Young Heron just out of its nest.
The Ulva Heron's had a good nesting season.
A pod of Bottle-nosed Dolphins was seen on numerous occasions of Ulva’s South Shore. We introduced a flock of Hebridean sheep, the herons had a good nesting season, and the Fungi much appreciated the wet warm weather this year!
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Ulva Burnett Moths on Radio 4
Tessa talks to Dr Tom Prescott about our rare Slender Scotch Burnett Moths. Follow this link to the Saving Species Website and you can listen in on the BBC iPlayer.
BBC R4 Open Country from Ulva
Helen Marks recently visited Ulva and recorded for Open Country on Radio 4. Follow this link to listen to the programme ‘BBC Radio 4 Open Country’
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- Alasdair Cross and Helen Marks recording for Open Country
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- Helen Marks with the Waulkers in Sheila's Cottage.
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- Recording in Livingstone's Cave
Wildlife Survey Week
A team of 7 enthusiastic wildlife surveyors spent a successful week on Ulva. Highlights were spotting Sea-Eagles, Golden Eagles, Hen Harriers, Burnett Moths, Hawkmoths, Otters (check out the otter video clips), also lots of red deer, some of them with new calves.
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- The Team watching a Golden Eagle.
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- Dr Tom Prescott (right), Butterfly Conservation (Scotland) joined the survey group for 2 days.
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- Brian Green enjoying a break during a deer survey!
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- Poplar Hawkmoth
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- Rare Marsh Fritillary Butterfly.
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- Light Emerald Moth
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- Buff-tip Moth
Caught and released from Moth trap.
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- Moth Recording
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- Deer Counting
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- The Survey team
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- Butterfly Orchid
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- Moth trapping master-class.
Native Woodland Project
This week we completed the planting of 90,000 native trees (Birch, Oak, Alder, Ash, Rowan, Hazel, Blackthorn, and Hawthorn) on the North Eastern end of Ulva.
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- New Trees Arriving
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- Tree planter ready for action!
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- Tree planting in progress
Wildlife Survey Week otter videos
We set 2 camera traps during wildlife survey week and we were rewarded with a number of video clips of individual otters.
Here are a couple of the best ones
