Burn Trout

I’ve added 2 photos of trout that we caught today. The first was from the Barlewan Burn near to its confluence with the Abbeymill Burn. We surveyed this site as part of the Maybole Bypass monitoring. Apart from finding reasonably good numbers of salmon fry, this...

Burnawn (Burn Anne) Fish Pass

Work has been complete on the fish pass at Cemetery Bridge in Galston. The Roads department didn’t include a budget for professional design services and seemed willing to rely on our comments despite us expressing concerns about this approach. Throughout the...

Japanese Knotweed control now under way

Now that the Japanese Knotweed is in full flower, it is the best time to spray the plant. Spraying the plant with glyphosate once it is in flower allows the chemical to be drawn to the root system for maximum effect. As part of the CIRB project we have contractors out...

Doon and Girvan Burns

Today we were out and about near Maybole surveying burns that we wouldn’t normally include in our routine electrofishing and I didn’t really expect too much from the sites we visited. One site was completely devoid of, and  inaccessible to migratory...

Burn O’ Need

After a morning meeting, we headed out electrofishing to take advantage of another dry day. Just before we left Ayr I had a call from Sorn where it was bucketing down but we decided to go anyway. The rain must have passed quickly as the Bun O’ Need hadn’t...

Ayr Tribs

Continuing from where we left off last week, we headed back to the Ayr today. Conditions were great and Emma Downie was on hand to assist, so we set off early to look at a couple of new sites. Having discovered grayling on the Glenstang last week I wanted a further...