School pupils enjoy a day out.

by | Oct 27, 2015 | Conservation, General

When schools ask for our assistance, very rarely do we ever refuse as education is central to the ethos of the Trust. Today we were joined by a group of advanced higher biology pupils from Wellington School in Ayr who wanted to look at different aquatic invertebrates...

Purclewan Burn is improving

by | Oct 20, 2015 | Electrofishing

We were joined by a schoolboy on work experience experience today and he’s going to be with us for the rest of the week. After catching up with the necessary paperwork and sorting out a few emails, we decided to pack away equipment that we won’t use for...

An interesting day

by | Oct 6, 2015 | Electrofishing, General

Every day is interesting at the Trust but some more than others. Today’s work came about rather unexpectedly due to a vehicle breakdown. Our reliable and hard worked Citroen Van has developed a small fault with its immobiliser after the key ‘plipper’...

SEPA’s event

by | Sep 23, 2015 | Conservation

As previously mentioned on  out blog page, we were invited to attend SEPA’s demonstration event to inform landowners of the rules and regulation over ditching, dredging and engineering. The event was held today in Darvel courtesy of Mungo Guthrie who is facing...

Final fish rescue at Caaf Reservoir

by | Sep 19, 2015 | Conservation, General

Our final attempt to remove the trout from Caaf Rservoir ahead of it being decommissioned has been completed and this time we managed to catch another 600- 650 small brown trout. The total number of wild brown trout captured from this reservoir since May is over 2000...

Ospreys

by | Sep 15, 2015 | Conservation, General

I’m sure most would agree and  we at the Trust certainly are pleased to occasionally get involved in wider aspects of fishery and wildlife management. Back in the days when Pete Minting was with the Trust (in 2007), he managed to secure funding to build Osprey...