Burnawn fish pass

by | Sep 12, 2012 | Conservation, General

I’ve spoken with the Roads Department about the necessary modifications to the new fish pass but am yet to hear their decision. After yesterdays heavy rainfall, I decided to nip to Galston this afternoon for a quick look to see how the pass would perform in...

ART on Facebook

by | Sep 11, 2012 | General

http://www.facebook.com/AyrshireRiversTrust ART’s Facebook page is now active so click the link above and pay us a visit.  I tried to set this up recently but didn’t do it justice so I asked Emma Downie, one of our volunteers to have a look at it for me....

Burn Trout

by | Sep 10, 2012 | Electrofishing, General

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

by | Sep 8, 2012 | General

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

by | Sep 7, 2012 | General, Invasives

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

by | Sep 6, 2012 | Electrofishing

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...