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Mar 6, 20191 min read
Winter confusion...
There have been days in the last couple of weeks when it has felt like spring and even summer but the weather today confirms it is in...
Dec 10, 20181 min read
Give Me Shelter....
Normally, you might not associate construction sites with being good places for wildlife to hang around. However, when it's blowing a...
Nov 5, 20182 min read
Red Deer Rut
Red deer are largest native UK land mammal with a fully grown stag weighing up to 200kg (32 stone) and standing up to 1.40m (just under 5...
Oct 3, 20181 min read
Just hanging around....
We have recently completed a tree climbing and aerial rescue course with 2 of us now in the company qualified to climb and inspect trees....
Aug 17, 20182 min read
Many mouths to feed...
Bright warning colours are usually a sign that the creature is either likely to sting you or attempt to poison you. Such is the case with...
Jul 30, 20182 min read
Bats in the belfry...
Perhaps one of the cutest bats you’ll find, the Brown long-eared bat usually roosts communally in roof and attic spaces. This one was...
Jul 27, 20181 min read
Stuck inside a mobile with the songbird blues again...
This songthrush had a lucky escape. Trapped inside the front grill of a car it was otherwise in good health, although could not get out....
Jul 16, 20181 min read
The queen of drama...
We’re well used to drama queens after the many football matches we’ve been compelled to watch during the world cup. Well here’s one with...
Jul 13, 20182 min read
Bats just love midges
The bat survey season is well underway with some 20 activity surveys undertaken by our team of trained bat surveyors to date. They are...
Jun 19, 20181 min read
Cromarty Dolphin trip
Bottlenose dolphins in the Moray Firth area can grow almost twice the size of their tropical cousins. We learned this on the fast rib out...
Jun 14, 20182 min read
The aliens have arrived.
For years there has been a battle raging in our rivers, seas and on land by aliens intent on domination. Called Invasive Non-native...
Jun 12, 20182 min read
Standing out from the crowd
The last albino animal I have ever got close up to, in the flesh as it were, was on the Italian island of Asinara off Sardinia’s northern...
Jun 6, 20181 min read
Bust up in the barn...
Just outside our office window I’ve been watching swallows building their mud and straw nest under the eves of our workshop. These...
Jun 1, 20181 min read
Underwater Assassins...
We recently organised pond and river dipping activities at Fort William and Fyrish substations as part of Siemens Bam outreach to schools...
May 29, 20181 min read
Beavering away...
Beavers are a keystone species that have been missing from the Scottish landscape for over 400 years. We were recently surveying on the...
May 16, 20181 min read
Nothing to grouse about...
When a group of 6 to 8 black grouse were recorded along the access track to a major highland construction site in February 2017 our ECoW...
Apr 30, 20181 min read
A monster day out...
HED ltd directors Imogen and Paul recently completed the Loch Ness Etape - a 66 mile cycle round trip of the iconic loch starting and...
Apr 26, 20181 min read
Bat eating snakes...
In early 2017 we took a trip to Cuba and were able to visit some caves with a range of bats and even bat eating snakes resting at the...
Apr 13, 20181 min read
If you go down to the woods today...
Imogen our senior ecologist was captured by our website designer Edmund Cluett yesterday in the Spring sunshine. He has been beavering...
Apr 12, 20181 min read
The Big Thaw
At this time of year we are seeing a number of animals becoming active after what seems like a long winter. Frogs and toads are emerging...