Diffuse pollution

Again on the Ayr, we visited the Dippol Burn near Ochiltree to see what condition the habitat was in. Previously this burn’s fish population has been surveyed by ART and never a trout was found over several years although pollution tolerant species such as Stone...

Temperature data loggers

Nearly one year on from when we installed temperature data loggers across the river Ayr catchment to assess long term changes in water temperatures driven by Global Warming, we returned today to download the data. Unfortunately the rain was pelting down and this...

Large Woody Debris

I make no apologies for another post following the Woody Debris/ green engineering theme and there will more to follow as work progresses on the Culroy Burn later this summer. Last year Kilkerran Estate took steps to protect two rapidly eroding banks using green...

Dean Ford

The upgrade at Dean Ford is virtually complete and should again open to traffic very shortly. This is a huge improvement over the ford and will allow salmon and trout to move up and downstream in virtually any height of water. There can’t be much left to do...

Water vole spotted at Belston

Max Stobbs called today to inform me that he thought he’s spotted a water vole at Belston. It appears he’s seen it a few time in front of the cabin which made me suspect it may be a rat so I asked him for a photo to confirm it’s identity. Both photos...