The Beast from the East

As everybody else has been posting about the impacts of the ‘Beast from the East’ I thought I would venture out last weekend and see what all the fuss was about. We’ve been blissfully unaffected at the office (Auchincruive, just outside Ayr) but I...

Alevins in the office

Some of our trout eggs (triploid) that we have in the office for the Rivers and Lochs in the Classroom have just begun to hatch. Not having access to alevins all that often this morning I took the opportunity to get a few snaps of some developed eggs and recently...

More trees from our mystery donor….

We were delighted to receive another package of trees on Wednesday (I’m not so sure the Royal Mail team took much heed of the ’this way up’ notice but they are all in one piece). This time we have crab apples and a monkey puzzle to find a suitable location for. We...

Missing Dog on the Annick Water

****************Missing dog on the Annick Water******************** The dog is named Sascha and went missing last Tuesday near Lainshaw House Stewarton, and hasn’t yet been located. Contact details for the owners are on the accompanying photo. Please share this...