Ponesk Fish Rescue (updated)

by | Aug 25, 2011 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General

To enable Scottish Coal to extract substantial coal reserves from below the course of the Ponesk Burn in the upper River Ayr catchment, ART were contracted to rescue as many fish as possible from the burn before the water was diverted. On Tuesday and Wednesday this...

Burrowing animals

by | Jul 26, 2011 | Conservation, General

Of course water voles live in burrows and in order for them to get a good start in their new habitat, Alex (an MSc student from Glasgow University) and I went out today armed with soil augers to make a few short runs for them to take refuge in. During the course of...

Girvan Weirs lower fish pass open

by | Jul 15, 2011 | Conservation

The nice spell of dry weather provided excellent conditions for the work on the lower Girvan Dykes weir. The concrete works is now finished and the weir was opened today. The river was -1″ on the gauge today, about as low as it normally gets,  but there was...

Water Vole Breeding

by | Mar 9, 2011 | Conservation, General

Gilllian Murray and Stuart Brabbs had a flying visit to Devon last week to see our water vole breeding program in action. During the course of the visit to the Derek Gow Consultancy, we gained valuable training in animal husbandry and handling the voles which will be...

Water Voles heading to Cornwall

by | Nov 23, 2010 | Conservation

Our water voles are now heading to Cornwall. Edinburgh Zoo have kindly transported our voles to Derek Gow’s premesis in Cornwall where they will shortly be introduced to the breeding programme. We look forward to January when they will be introduced to potential...