Culroy Burn at Sauchrie

by | Jul 28, 2017 | Conservation, General

With water levels still slightly too high this morning for electrofishing surveys, we decided to take Jim and Niall, our two volunteers for the day, out tree planting. We are grateful for their generous support. It’s great to have their assistance and they seem...

Ayr Timed Survey underway

by | Jul 25, 2017 | Electrofishing

The rain held off last night and we decided to head to the top of the River Ayr and work downstream as we undertook the timed surveys of the Ayr today. Water levels were still dropping so we figured starting at the top of the catchment would work best. Results at the...

MSS Salmon Tracking Project

by | Jul 20, 2017 | Conservation, General

With our salmon tracking site approved by MSS, we decided to place the mooring and receiver in Ayr harbour today. Not in the useable harbour but upstream of any boat traffic beside the old railway bridge pillars. Plan A was a good one (so we thought). Float the...

Culroy Burn at Culroy revisited.

by | Jul 15, 2017 | General

We fenced this section of the burn a couple of years ago and used green engineering to stabilise what was very rapid and severe erosion. This was driven by livestock accessing the burn and margins and led to instability and loss of tonnes of soil from the field. Our...

River Doon Fencing Update

by | Jul 14, 2017 | Conservation

Our fencer, Jim Thompson has now completed two contracts for us and the Doon Board this year. The Macmanniston stretch on the main river has been completed and we will agree a final measure on this next week and post some photos here. The second stretch was on the...