Nature Notes from Argyll
(and occasionally other places)

 

Pyrrhosoma nymphula, male

 

Apr 2007
12 20

May 2007
5 15 26 30

Jun 2007
10-14 (Kent) 24

Jul 2007
13-15 (Nairn) 17 19 20

Aug 2007
19 26

Sep 2007
2 3 15-16 (Durham) 27

Veronica montana

 

Oct 2007
1 7 13 20

Dec 2007
3 18

Feb 2008
12

Apr 2008
9 15

Jun 2008
7 11 15 28

Aug 2008
8 21

Oct 2008
3 14

Jun 2009
2 7 11 30
 

View NE up Loch Etive from Inverawe Nov 2007
18 20 23

Jan 2008
1 15 21

Mar 2008
3 9 15 19 31

May 2008
5 17 18 (Edinburgh) 20

July 2008
7 9 13 26 29

Sep 2008
5 13 22

Nov 2008
24 25

Jul 2009
18 21
 

Aug 2009
22 25

Nov 2009
14

Sep 2009
12 (Kindrogan) 19 25

Dec 2009
12

Oct 2009
14 16

Jan 2010
10


This site is a sequel to Nature Notes from Skye, occasioned by my moving from Skye to Argyll in Sep 2006.  As the post-move site clearly needed a new name, it also needed a new home page, and this is it.  However, there is continuity of narrative between the two sites, rather than a clean start.  For instance, I'm more likely to include something on the Argyll site if it hasn't been shown before on the Skye site, and, in the early Argyll pages at least, I frequently comment on differences between the flora and fauna of the two localities.  Initially, the site is about Argyll as seen through the eyes of someone from Skye!
 

Mouse over the pictures to see details such as Latin name, English name, grid ref, scale of photo etc.  This uses a script called Overlib developed by Erik Bosrup.  It won't work if you have Javascript turned off.

For now I have disabled the alt tags as they would show up as well as the Overlib box when you mouse over, which is overdoing it a bit!  As a result, people who have Javascript turned off will no longer see any text when mousing over the pictures.  The alt tags are still in the source code but are over-ridden by blank image title tags.

One benefit of this new feature is that I can show the photos on other sites and they will carry all their information with them.  That's why I've added info that seems redundant on this site, such as the date, and "Scotland" after the location.

     

Species index (for Skye and Argyll sites combined)


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Links - Argyll

Taynuilt weather forecast
Tides - Bonawe
Tides - Oban
Craig Lodge Retreat Centre
Loch Etive (wonderful descriptive piece)
Seil Natural History Group

Other

Donegal Wildlife
Ryedale Natural History Society
Gilbert White's Selborne Journals as a blog
Association of British Fungus Groups
Irish Lichens - stunning lichen photos with descriptions
Oaks and Adders
John Muir Trust
Wild Flowers of Ireland
Bioimages
NBN Gateway
Flora of Dry Stone Walls
British Myriapod and Isopod Group (BMIG)

Forums

 Seil Natural History Group
Scottish Lichenology
Scottish Bryology
Flora of Dry Stone Walls
UK and Eire Bryophytes
UK and Eire Lichens