Happy New Year everyone! The year has flown by, and I’m now spending my last few day in the office finishing reports and tidying loose ends. I’ll be sad to leave Wester Ross, but it’s been a fantastic year and a privilege to live and work in such an amazing place.
Unfortunately my camera has broken, so I’ve got no photos of the final rhododendron bashes of the year, making Christmas wreaths with the Wildlife Watch children, or of the end of year parties. Instead here’s a little flavour of my year.
Bug hunting with Kinlochewe Wildlife Watch group
Heath Spotted Orchid
A speckled wood butterfly
A rare azure dragonfly
Having a break from rhody bashing in the sun
Ukulele in the woods (with a butterfly net on my back)
Adventures in the snow- on the summit of Beinn Eighe
Moths!
Shelter building with Kinlochewe Wildlife Watch Group
On the beach
Case caddis up close
Learning lepidoptera
BTO What’s Up Training
Ptarmigan