News
Doon DSFB Meeting (changed date)
Unavoidably, the meeting has been changed and brought forwards as detailed below. Thursday 9th November, 2017 3.30pm at Dalblair House, 46 Dalblair Road, Ayr KA7 1UQ Ayr Office Dalblair House 46 Dalblair Road AYR KA7 1UQ 01292 280499
The Glenmuir Water – Fly-through video of this remote river
We annually visit Glenmuir Water (aka the Shaw Burn) to download temperature data from our logger high on the Lugar side of the Ayr catchment. It is a long trek out there even in a 4x4 but it is a lovely but barren place to visit. Salmon numbers have crashed on this...
A quick visit to the upper Ayr catchment
With the sun shining, I had a look at a few things on the upper Ayr today. It's been a while since we've been able to use the drone to identify issues or to re examine those we already know about. Having another perspective sometimes reveals things you miss on the...
Loch Doon Project
What a rare event, sunshine and no rain! It was a great day to be out and Struan and I headed to Loch Doon to continue with our salmon tagging study to help us improve migration...
Tarholm Willow Weaving Update
We are keeping a close eye on how the willow spiling we installed at Tarholm on the Ayr is developing since we completed this work just under 1 month ago. It is incredible to see how much silt is being deposited with each spate. The photos below illustrate the change...
River Ayr tributary surveys.
On Thursday of last week myself and Muir were on the Ayr catchment carrying out electrofishing surveys on three tributaries of the upper Ayr. Our first port of call was the Ponesk, we began above the modified section to assess if salmon had made it this far up the...
Dyrock Pollution issues (Girvan catchment)
While undertaking a fairly massive clearance of a timber blockage on the Dyrock yesterday, we were immediately shocked by the levels of livestock poaching (trampling) that were obvious on the riverbank and through the woodland. Naturally we understand that fields...
Trees by Post
We had an unusual package delivered to the office yesterday and on opening, 30 alder tree saplings were revealed. However there was no details to tell us who the sender is. We’d like to thank our anonymous donor for these trees. Earlier this year we received a...
Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
