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A look at Sundrum Falls on the Water of Coyle
Myself and Muir took a trip out to get images of Sundrum Falls (aka Ness Linn) on the Coyle on Friday afternoon. We have a photograph dating back to the late 1960s of the falls (see below). The top photo shows the falls some 25/30 meters further...
Northern February red stonefly – Buglife Scotland, Citizen Science Project
If you're out and about on the river banks over the next couple of months keep an eye out for the Brachytera putata, Northern February red stonefly, a species only found in Scottish watercourses. Craig Macadam of Buglife Scotland is mapping the locations of these...
Ayrshire Rivers Trust AGM
ART’s AGM will be held at 8pm on the 23rd January 2018 in our offices at Auchincruive, Ayr. Our Trustees meeting will be held prior to the AGM at 7pm. Please don't arrive before 8pm as there won't be access to our offices. All ART members are welcome to attend the...
2017 Rainfall summary
I started collecting Mauchline's daily rainfall data on the 7th January last year. These data presented below therefore don't represent a full year's rainfall but pretty close. I intend to carry on collecting rainfall for the foreseeable future as it allows us to look...
MSS Salmon Tracking Project – Ayrshire update.
A Happy New Year to all our readers and we wish you all a prosperous 2018. The first real post of our activities in the New Year should always be an interesting one and this one is. Back in july 2017 we installed a tracker into Ayr harbour for Marine Science Scotland...
Ayrshire Rivers Maps ***Christmas Sale***
For the Christmas period only we are offering a 25% discount on all our river maps; Stinchar, Ayr and Doon. These maps detail all the named beats and all the named salmon pools on each of the rivers. Just follow the link below:...
A Theory about salmon declines on the Tweed (and around Scotland?)
The video describes how the run times of the types of Tweed Salmon have changed over the centuries. The information comes from a long term study that was made by the Tweed Foundation using historic Tweed Salmon catches, mostly from the netting stations. It shows that...
Upper Stinchar video filmed at the start of salmon spawning in 2017
We visited the upper Stinchar in search of salmon spawning a couple of days ago and filmed this beautiful wee river on a bright winter's day. We had also been rescuing fish from a burn on the Duisk ahead of emergency repairs taking place so while we did have some...
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River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
