I visited Ayrshire recently and had time to take some drone footage. Below is drone footage of Stevenston taken from near the town centre.
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- Tue Jul 14, 2020 7:02 pm
- Forum: My Photos
- Topic: Three Towns drone images
- Replies: 47
- Views: 60372
- Tue Oct 29, 2019 1:39 pm
- Forum: My Photos
- Topic: Three Towns drone images
- Replies: 47
- Views: 60372
Re: Three Towns drone images
A drone flyover of the construction of the new ASN school on the playing fields at Auchenharvie.
- Fri Jul 05, 2019 12:48 pm
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Stevenston Point Biodiversity Project
- Replies: 68
- Views: 43893
Re: Stevenston Point Biodiversity Project
A brief update on this project. In late winter, we cobbled together various grants we obtained to pay a contractor to install hundreds of metres of new fencing to repair old dunes and build new dunes at Stevenston Beach Local Nature Reserve. The fencing is already trapping lots of sand, forming new ...
- Fri Jul 05, 2019 10:12 am
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Threetowners 20th Birthday Celebrations
- Replies: 33
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Re: Threetowners 20th Birthday Celebrations
Just a quick message to say that the parking point arrowed on the map is simply a stretch of road rather than a car park...lest anyone goes looking for a formal car park!
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- Mon May 06, 2019 8:19 am
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Community woodland creation at Ardeer Quarry
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6066
Re: Community woodland creation at Ardeer Quarry
The objection was a ‘multifaceted’ one! We were explicit that we hoped the proposed woodland would make the site more enjoyable for walkers/dog walkers; the objector was concerned that it might encourage more dog walkers to visit the site, which they thought might be a bad thing. We were explicit th...
- Sun May 05, 2019 4:00 pm
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Community woodland creation at Ardeer Quarry
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6066
Re: Community woodland creation at Ardeer Quarry
Hi, Yes...ish! We had provisional approval for the project from the Council subject to running a public consultation. We ran a 2 month public consultation, which generated only one objection. So the Council were happy for us to proceed. However, someone new from the Council came into the equation an...
- Sun May 05, 2019 3:50 pm
- Forum: My Photos
- Topic: Spring flowers
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9572
Spring flowers
I took some photos of flowers (some native, some not) during a walk today between Africa House and Stevenston Beach. Bluebells in Africa House wood. http://stevenstonconservation.org/LNR/forumphotos/Bluebells12019.jpg http://stevenstonconservation.org/LNR/forumphotos/Bluebells22019.jpg http://steven...
- Sun Feb 24, 2019 5:01 pm
- Forum: My Photos
- Topic: Wildlife in Stevenston
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- Views: 419919
Re: Wildlife in Stevenston
Hi Meg, It’s been great to see very early and very convincing signs of spring. I had my first butterfly a week and half ago and my first bumblebees yesterday. It’s been so warm this winter, I saw my first toad at the end of January, just before the cold snap! By the end of this week and the run of w...
- Fri Feb 22, 2019 10:55 am
- Forum: My Photos
- Topic: Wildlife in Stevenston
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Re: Wildlife in Stevenston
The first moth I’ve seen this year: a Dotted Border roosting on a log at Ardeer Quarry Local Nature Reserve a couple of days ago. The second photo is of another Dotted Border that flew into my kitchen last night. This is a reasonably common species that is on the wing in February and March. Like mos...
- Thu Feb 21, 2019 1:05 pm
- Forum: My Photos
- Topic: Wildlife in Stevenston
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Re: Wildlife in Stevenston
Thanks for posting that photo, Hughie – evidently swans are elegant birds whatever their colour! I recall an Australian Black Swan turning-up in the Three Towns (at the Auchenharvie Golf Course pond) about 27 years ago. It must have escaped from a collection of captive wildfowl. JD, Ahh, good point!...
- Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:38 am
- Forum: My Photos
- Topic: Wildlife in Stevenston
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Re: Wildlife in Stevenston
Hi JD, Intelligence is perhaps one of crows’ few redeeming features! I always found it a bit strange that sci-fi films and TV shows frequently depict intelligent alien races as being reptilian, mammalian and even insectoid, but you rarely if ever see intelligent aliens depicted as bird-like.
- Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:37 am
- Forum: My Photos
- Topic: Wildlife in Stevenston
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Re: Wildlife in Stevenston
Hi Hughie, These large Mute Swan congregations are non-breeding flocks. They’re composed mainly of youngster in their first few years of life, who are too young to breed. Since your childhood, Mute Swans have become much more abundant. This is probably because of a decrease in lead fishing tackle (w...