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Speyside Wildlife
Dec 18, 20193 min read
Diary of a Wildlife Hide – 2019
To conclude this year’s Wildlife Watching Hide, let’s look back at 2019. If you have been following our weekly blogs, you will know all...
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Speyside Wildlife
May 13, 20191 min read
Our Evening Mammal Hide
We are saddened to report, that in the early hours of Saturday morning (11 May) our Evening Mammal Hide, based on Rothiemurchus burned...
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Speyside Wildlife
Oct 15, 20182 min read
Summer Showdown at the Hide
The Wildlife Hide has had a busy season this year with the nights now drawing in and Autumn coming to an end. We have had visitors from...
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Speyside Wildlife
Sep 10, 20182 min read
All Grown-up!
The days are drawing in here in the heart of Speyside and change is clearly afoot. The bright purple on the surrounding hills is ageing...
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Speyside Wildlife
Sep 4, 20182 min read
August in the Cairngorms
With the summer coming to an end, the wild heather was at its peak and blooming a vibrant lilac purple that filled the ground throughout...
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Speyside Wildlife
Jul 30, 20182 min read
A Scottish Summer Continues
As England experienced a heat wave, here in the Cairngorms we welcomed a breeze to our warm air and rain drops to our dry gardens and...
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Speyside Wildlife
Jul 25, 20183 min read
Nights that barely see complete darkness…
As nights that barely see complete darkness, very slowly begin to take on an earlier hue of dusky grey and July edges further away from...
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Speyside Wildlife
Jul 24, 20185 min read
What is a Pine Marten?
Here in the beautiful Scottish Highlands we are blessed to have in our midst some of the most beautiful and endangered species in the UK....
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Speyside Wildlife
Jul 11, 20182 min read
June in the Cairngorms
It has been the “fourth hottest June ever experienced in Scotland. (BBC NEWS)” with temperate of thirty-two degrees on the last week on...
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Speyside Wildlife
Jul 9, 20182 min read
Pine Marten Fun
Pine Martens aren’t always predictable as to when and where they might be seen. On occasions away from the hide I have seen them as I...
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Speyside Wildlife
Jul 6, 20183 min read
The Red Squirrel
Red Squirrel (Judith Nott) The Red Squirrel – possibly one of the most iconic species of the Highlands of Scotland – is much loved by...
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Speyside Wildlife
Jul 2, 20182 min read
Scotland or the Mediterranean?
For over a month now the weather has been dry and sunny with last week recording the hottest temperatures of thirty-two degrees. With...
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Speyside Wildlife
Jun 25, 20182 min read
Midsummer Fun at the Hide
The Summer Solstice, or Midsummer is when the sun is at its highest point in the sky of the year and known as the longest day. Here in...
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Speyside Wildlife
Jun 19, 20182 min read
Summer Nights at the Hide
With the lighter evenings, every night at the hide is different as to what and when things will make an appearance. The Badgers are...
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Speyside Wildlife
Jun 12, 20182 min read
Late Nights and Kit Delight
An interesting time all round at the wildlife hide the past couple of weeks. With very light, warm evenings and darkness falling around...
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Speyside Wildlife
May 28, 20182 min read
Light, Cameras, Action!
The sun has been shining this May, giving us plenty of chances to explore the Cairngorms and what it has to offer. With sunshine and dry...
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Speyside Wildlife
May 21, 20182 min read
Love is in the Air….
Whether you were inclined to be glued to the TV this past weekend or whether you had a pressing engagement to empty your septic tank it...
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Speyside Wildlife
May 15, 20182 min read
And the Mammal Winners are…….
In a week that has seen the TV BAFTA winners come and go with the usual high drama, our eyes have instead been fixed on the mammals,...
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Speyside Wildlife
May 7, 20182 min read
Who’s Watching..?
The temperate is finally getting warmer, the weather has brightened up for the Mayday weekend and the Wildlife Hide is getting busier....
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Speyside Wildlife
May 2, 20182 min read
April in the Cairngorms
A cold Easter Sunday was followed by another day of snow at the beginning of April here in the Cairngorms. Things have slowly begun to...
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