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by iain
Tue Jul 14, 2020 7:02 pm
Forum: My Photos
Topic: Three Towns drone images
Replies: 47
Views: 57052

Re: Three Towns drone images

I visited Ayrshire recently and had time to take some drone footage. Below is drone footage of Stevenston taken from near the town centre.

by iain
Tue Oct 29, 2019 1:39 pm
Forum: My Photos
Topic: Three Towns drone images
Replies: 47
Views: 57052

Re: Three Towns drone images

A drone flyover of the construction of the new ASN school on the playing fields at Auchenharvie.

by iain
Fri Jul 05, 2019 12:48 pm
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: Stevenston Point Biodiversity Project
Replies: 68
Views: 43574

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 ...
by iain
Fri Jul 05, 2019 10:12 am
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: Threetowners 20th Birthday Celebrations
Replies: 33
Views: 18913

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!

Iain
by iain
Mon May 06, 2019 8:19 am
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: Community woodland creation at Ardeer Quarry
Replies: 6
Views: 6015

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...
by iain
Sun May 05, 2019 4:00 pm
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: Community woodland creation at Ardeer Quarry
Replies: 6
Views: 6015

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...
by iain
Sun May 05, 2019 3:50 pm
Forum: My Photos
Topic: Spring flowers
Replies: 1
Views: 8656

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...
by iain
Sun Feb 24, 2019 5:01 pm
Forum: My Photos
Topic: Wildlife in Stevenston
Replies: 1060
Views: 412090

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...
by iain
Fri Feb 22, 2019 10:55 am
Forum: My Photos
Topic: Wildlife in Stevenston
Replies: 1060
Views: 412090

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...
by iain
Thu Feb 21, 2019 1:05 pm
Forum: My Photos
Topic: Wildlife in Stevenston
Replies: 1060
Views: 412090

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!...
by iain
Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:38 am
Forum: My Photos
Topic: Wildlife in Stevenston
Replies: 1060
Views: 412090

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.
by iain
Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:37 am
Forum: My Photos
Topic: Wildlife in Stevenston
Replies: 1060
Views: 412090

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...