Fish Rescue, Kilmarnock Water
DAY ONE We kept our fingers and everything else crossed over the weekend for dry weather. For once things went in our favour and when we arrived at the Kilmarnock Water this morning to undertake a very public fish rescue, we were relieved to see the river flowing...Spawning on the ever changing Greenock Water
A Happy New Year to all our readers for 2012. We have looked for evidence of spawning salmon on the Ponesk Burn since the 17th December without success. Either the fish aren’t there or we missed them. As we haven’t found any redds or carcasses on the...Ponesk Burn Update
Look back to the Blog Post of the 25th August and compare the photos taken then to those in this post (taken yesterday). The Ponesk Burn near Muirkirk was moved to allow Scottish Coal to extract reserves from below the previously modified channel. Great efforts have...Water Vole Survey training course
ART ran a water vole training course today for East Ayrshire Coalfield Environment Initiative. Working with local organisations on such projects is a great way to ensure that Ayrshire LBAP continues to gather data on these animals and identify surviving populations...Purclewan Burn improves
The Purclewan Burn, a Doon tributary which joins just downstream of Dalrymple is a typical Ayrshire lowland burn. It flows through mainly agricultural ground and for many years suffered from diffuse pollution from farm stock access, dairy farming and road run-off. In...Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
