Bob Tevendale (Historic Scotland's Natural Heritage Advisor) explores the wildlife, plants and landscapes of Scotland's historic sites.
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Protected historic sites – a haven for wildlife!
A carpet of Bluebells growing in the historic woodlands surrounding Caerlaverock Castle.
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Protected historic sites – a haven for wildlife!
Mute swans on Linlithgow Loch managed by Historic Scotland.
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Protected historic sites – a haven for wildlife!
The rare great yellow bumblebee found only in the North of Scotland pictured here feeding on bird’s-foot-trefoil at the Ring of Brodgar.
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Kind of blue
16 May, 2013 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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Water wings
09 May, 2013 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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Toad away
02 May, 2013 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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Rock of ages
25 April, 2013 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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Seal of approval
19 April, 2013 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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