Bob Tevendale (Historic Scotland's Natural Heritage Advisor) explores the wildlife, plants and landscapes of Scotland's historic sites.
Over the past couple of weeks my work has taken me to some of the woodlands managed by Historic Scotland. Seabegs Wood on the Antonine Wall, Inchmahome and Caerlaverock woodlands all have one thing in common: at this time of …
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Last week’s blog was kindly suppled by Lilly Laing, one of the Historic Scotland Rangers working out of Holyrood Park. This week’s guest blogger is Ian Lewis, another HS Ranger. Ian is based at Linlithgow Peel, but can often turn …
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In Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park, the High Road has been closed overnight for several weeks, to allow the safe passage of migrating toads. Normally, the toads would start their journey in mid-March. However, due to the adverse weather conditions, they decided …
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As part of Scotland’s Year of Natural, Stirling Castle ran special tours last weekend in support of John Muir Day. This was a 175th-anniversary celebration of Scots-born naturalist Muir (1838–1914), whose work helped preserve some of America’s most stunning wildernesses. …
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As I was on holiday last week Elaine Clarke kindly agreed to write this weeks offering. For those that have not had the pleasure of meeting Elaine, Elaine along with Sandra, is one of the Historic Scotland rangers on Orkney. …
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