Glaisnock Water Clean-up Postponed

by | Jun 21, 2013 | General

Due to the heavy rain and strong winds forecast for the weekend, this event has now been postponed. The clean-up will be rescheduled for another day. I will update the site as soon as a date is set. Support from the community was brilliant and a lot of volunteers and...

Mayfly hatch

by | Jun 9, 2013 | fishing, General

I walked the dogs at Barskimming Mill this evening and there were a lot of trout rising in the Nursery Pool and Mill stream. The water looked terrible with that awful greenish tinge that appears during low water that is a symptom of iron from past and present mining...

Mauchline Holy Fair

by | May 24, 2013 | Events, General

Just a quick post to let everyone know that we will have a stall at Mauchline Holy Fair tomorrow from 11am to 5pm. The weather has to be nice which is a bonus so why not come along and have a look. We will have games with prizes to be won for kids and adults including...

Success with Japanese Knotweed

by | May 24, 2013 | General, Invasives

AS part of the CIRB project we awarded a contract to control Japanese Knotweed on the River Irvine and I reported at the time that this control had been completed by early October 2012. The method used was spraying with roundup pro biactive 45o g/l  when the plant was...

Our poor fish!

by | May 15, 2013 | Conservation, fishing, General

After a long day I thought it would be worth a quick visit to Nethermills Dams to see what birds were about. I fully expected a cormorant or two to be fishing at the dams but not this evening. There was however a heron, seagulls and a pair of goosanders. Gordon and I...