by Stuart Brabbs | Jan 17, 2018 | General
We are pleased to launch our VLOG early in 2018. The staff have long been aware of the power of social media and the Trust has gained huge following through this web site, Facebook, and Twitter. These pages give us an opportunity to regularly share what we do and the...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jan 17, 2018 | General
Very generously, the internationally renown artist Donovan has offered to help ART by donating some of the proceeds of his new single towards improvement works on the River Doon. Donovan has just released his latest single ahead of Burn’s night entitled...
by Struan Candlish | Jan 15, 2018 | Conservation, fishing, General
Myself and Muir took a trip out to get images of Sundrum Falls (aka Ness Linn) on the Coyle on Friday afternoon. We have a photograph dating back to the late 1960s of the falls (see below). The top photo shows the falls some 25/30 meters further...
by Struan Candlish | Jan 12, 2018 | Conservation, General
If you’re out and about on the river banks over the next couple of months keep an eye out for the Brachytera putata, Northern February red stonefly, a species only found in Scottish watercourses. Craig Macadam of Buglife Scotland is mapping the locations of...
by Struan Candlish | Jan 10, 2018 | General
ART’s AGM will be held at 8pm on the 23rd January 2018 in our offices at Auchincruive, Ayr. Our Trustees meeting will be held prior to the AGM at 7pm. Please don’t arrive before 8pm as there won’t be access to our offices. All ART members are welcome to...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jan 9, 2018 | General
I started collecting Mauchline’s daily rainfall data on the 7th January last year. These data presented below therefore don’t represent a full year’s rainfall but pretty close. I intend to carry on collecting rainfall for the foreseeable future as it...