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Notes from The Arran Naturalist
From The Journal of the Isle of Arran Natural History Society No. 3 Summer 1979
ANHS January meeting
The next Arran Natural History Society talk - and the first of 2024 - will be an online gathering with Tiree’s island ranger Hayley Douglas. In Can you tell me....? The many…
Notes from The Arran Naturalist
For this issue of the Voice, we have selected a piece from The Arran Naturalist, No. 9. A section on a shorebird count that took place in January 1985. The survey of…
Birds in November
Among the birds spotted on Arran over the last month, are Waxwing and Little Egret. Sightings of Waxwing have come with the arrival of an irruption in Scotland, as reported in the…
Arran Natural History Society meeting
Dragonflies of Scotland
Birds in October
Last month the Arran Ranger Service reported on the movements of Mar'verick, a White Tailed Eagle that was satellite-tagged as a chick at NTS Mar Lodge Estate Nature Reserve. In a post…
Arran Natural History Society November talk
Pirnmill-based amateur ornithologist and photographer Dr David Kilpatrick will present the next Arran Natural History Society talk Birds of Costa Rica. Following his retirement from his NHS job as a consultant immunologist…
Gaelic walks with Arran Geopark
The final batch of Gaelic landscape walks of the year are coming up in November and December - see the poster below for details! All are available to book online now -…
The Arran Naturalist revisited
When some old copies of The Arran Naturalist came into my hands last month, I thought it would be lovely to share some of the articles in the Voice for Arran over…
State of Nature Report 2023
The following article was published on 27th September 2023 on the National Biodiversity Network website Landmark report shows UK wildlife’s devastating decline. • World-leading study, State of Nature, finds no let-up in…
September Birds and request for sightings
As reported by Arran Birding : Knot. On Saturday 9 September a single Knot was reported on the shore by Drumadoon Point. Last year there was only one Arran report of this…
Autumn activities with the NTS Rangers
Deer Rut Hill Walk DIY Bird Feeder