Fancy being an ecologist for the day? 🐞 🌱 🐦⬛
Our springtime #BioBlitz at #GlenFinglas is happening on Sat 23 May.
Activities include pond dipping, moth trapping and bird box surveys😄
Free tickets👉 buff.ly/ee2R1Dx
Upland woodland on hillside with helicopter on skyline in blue sky. Credit: Hamish Thomson/WTML
Helicopter carrying roll of old fencing with loch and hillside in background. Credit: Hamish Thomson/WTML
Close up of rolls of old fencing on hill with helicopter and car at top of hill. Credit: Hamish Thomson/WTML
10km of old fencing has been removed from #GlenFinglas 💪
🌳 The trees are now established and the fence served its purpose. Removing it opens up the hillside and allows cattle into the trees for conservation grazing.
🚁 The metal has now been taken for recycling. ♻️
View of landscape with bench in foreground, down to Loch Venachar and hills beyond. Credit: Eilidh Mair/WTML
Hands on silver birch tree trunk with woodland in background. Credit: Eilidh Mair/WTML
Back of person looking out over view of landscape - with trees in foreground out to hills in background and cloudy sky. Credit: Eilidh Mair/WTML
Close up picture of mosses and lichens on tree stump. Credit: Eilidh Mair/WTML
Enjoying a hoof around #GlenFinglas, scoping locations where we can encourage visitors to pause and take a breath. #Mindfulness can help us connect with our bodies and the world around us and in turn boost our wellbeing 🎉
More on the benefits of mindfulness buff.ly/OVCUCN6
#DontRush
Macro shot of red hazel flower on branch - shows red styles in tuft. Credit: Hanna Rennie / WTML
Macro shot of red hazel flower, looks like swollen bud, on branch - shows red styles in tuft. Credit: Hanna Rennie / WTML
Macro shot of red hazel flower, looks like swollen bud, on branch - shows red styles in tuft. Male flower is a catkin in the background. Credit: Hanna Rennie / WTML
Macro shot of red hazel flower, looks like swollen bud, on branch - shows red styles in tuft. Credit: Hanna Rennie / WTML
🔍️ Spotted in #GlenFinglas
Is it a weird bug 🐛 , parasite 🪱 or sea anemone 🪼 ?!
Find out below 👇️
#GlenFinglas #LookClosely #MacroPhotography
Credit: Hanna Rennie/WTML
A mountainside in summer - bracken covers the hillside and native trees are growing in a ravine with a river flowing through the bottom of it. Credit Craig Somerville / WTML.
This data will help inform future upland woodland creation strategies. We're 😁 our #GlenFinglas Estate could be part of the study: a 6-year long, high-altitude tree planting experiment repeated at 3 upland sites in the Scottish Highlands is no mean feat! 💪👏 2/2
Snowy #GlenFinglas ❄️
Pollarded hazel trees, frozen fungi and one happy dog 🥰
We're thrilled to have received funding from Scottish Government's #NatureRestorationFund for
🦌 upland deer fence removal
🌺 invasive species eradication
🌳 restoring hedgerows & planting in-field trees at #GlenFinglas Estate.
Thanks Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park. More 👉
Aerial image of the tree covered hills around Loch Venachar. The water narrrows at the end of the loch to become a marsh and autumnal colours are visible on the trees. There is a mountainous backdrop. Credit Jonathan Doyle media.
Some of our community engagement team enjoyed a 'climate wellbeing' workshop in an autumnal Little Druim Wood #GlenFinglas in Sep. Thoughtful & fun activities supported a collective approach to dealing with the climate crisis. We highly recommend working with Rea, always uplifting! buff.ly/dhmTAwK
A man with a Woodland Trust Scotland logo on the back of his jacket speaks to a group of four people with a mountain in the background. Pic by George Anderson
A loch with mountains in the background on a sunny day. Pic by George Anderson
Six people stand in a row in front of some trees. Pic by George Anderson.
Great to host some of our #LochArkaig #ospreycam volunteers at #GlenFinglas
We hold a little thankyou celebration when each osprey season is over, and since the volunteers do their thing online from locations all over the country - it's a moveable party too!
What super weather we had!😎
A group of 24 people standing in a line in a woodland smiling at the camera. All are wearing outdoor clothing. Credit TGTF
Last week we celebrated 10 Years of #TheGreatTrossachsForest National Nature Reserve with partners at #GlenFinglas. It's 20 years since the partnership began. We've achieved ✅Over 3,000 hectares of new woodland created ✅432 hectares of peatland restored ✅70% increase in black grouse lekking 1/4...
The flowers of common dog violet which is an essential food source for pearl bordered fritillary caterpillars. Pic by WTML
A spike of bugle with its blue flowers. Pic by WTML
Two yellow primrose blossoms against a background of their green leaves. Pic WTML
They like south-facing slopes at a particular altitude. We had just the spot at #GlenFinglas but it had bracken not wildflowers. So we deployed the coos! They trampled the densest bracken allowing the fritillary's food plants to flourish. #luingcattle 2/3
Great to see our sites at #LochArkaig Pine Forest and #GlenFinglas highlighted in this guide to Scotland's hidden gems.👏
They are too big to keep hidden - not that we want to!😀
@dailyrecord.co.uk
Text: LTE Site of the Week- Glen Finglas, Scotland. Landscape photo showing sheep with hills in the background. Text: Running since 2002. Robin Pakeman, James Hutton Institute. Icons for grassland and grazing.
#GlenFinglas, Scotland is the #LTESiteOfTheWeek.
Robin Pakeman is looking at the effects of sheep & cattle #grazing on grassland #biodiversity.
bit.ly/GFinglas
Listen to Robin talk at our #webinar bit.ly/4mETXza & read this key paper: bit.ly/3j81vvK
@robinjpakeman.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk 🌏
Dark text on a lime green background reads: "Volunteering Opportunity: Glen Finglas Admin"
Count yourself an organisational wizard? 🧙
From archiving ecological data to equipment maintenance, this new volunteer role will support the admin required to look after the nearly 5,000 acres of hills, glens, woodland and moorland of #GlenFinglas 📊 🌳
More info at 👉 buff.ly/nCk7mHT
Young tree growing sideways. Credit Matilda Scharsach/ WTML
People walking through head-height bracken on edge of woodland. Credit Hanna Rennie/WTML
Hanna having a go on tree swing at Kinclaven Bluebell Wood. Credit: Matilda Scharsach/WTML
👏 to volunteers from #GlenFinglas in the Trossachs who travelled to #Kinclaven Bluebell Wood, Perthshire, for a day of teamwork, learning & fun. The combined crew removed 100s of tubes from newly established young trees, despite one tree being vertically challenged 🤪. #Volunteer 👉 buff.ly/Ye5G9aX
The buzzing of cellophane bees or Colletes at #GlenFinglas Credit Maggie McCallum/WTML
A woman stands on a bridge and gestures to the woodland behind her. She is wearing a Woodland Trust top and smiling at the camera.
Celebrating #WorldRangerDay with our very own Hanna 👏🌳
Hanna looks after all 4,875ha of #GlenFinglas Estate. With woodland, rivers, moorland, and a herd of Luing cattle to keep an eye on, there's never a dull day! 🐮
Here's to Hanna & all the rangers who look after these special places 🌳
Dark blue text on light blue background reads: "Volunteering Opportunity: Photographer. Love outdoor photographer? Flex your skills as a Volunteer Photographer'
Are you a keen #OutdoorPhotographer? 📸
Our new Volunteer Photographer role is based in the central belt and will involve a mix of fixed-point and landscape photography, mainly focused around #GlenFinglas 🌳
Sound like you? If so, we’d love to hear from you 👉 buff.ly/vWFWCn9
A small clump of harebells with purple flower heads standing tall on a rocky outcrop with yellow mosses and other ground flora in the background. Credit RM/WTML
Close-up image of 3 purple harebell flower heads, all dripping with dew in a grassy field. Credit WTML
We found Scottish bluebells #WildflowerHour! Thanks to #GlenFinglas volunteer Ruth for capturing this Campanula rotundifolia or harebell clump in Glen Casaig at the weekend. And to Ranger Hanna for snapping others in the woods. Their violet, nodding bell flowers are resplendent. Braw!
A group stand on a boardwalk. The Ranger Hanna stands off to the side in the boggy habitat. She is pointing at a small orchid
Lovely day walking the Brig o' Turk Mires loop at Glen Finglas with Glasgow Association for Mental Health 💚
🌸 Want to see #GlenFinglas in its summer glory? Plan your visit 👉 buff.ly/Ga0JmtE
Eight smiling people sit around rocks beside a burn with a blue sky overhead.
A clump of purple flowers with yellow flowers in the foreground.
People spread out along a rocky burn with young trees in the foreground.
A coppiced alder tree with blue sky above.
Our Glen Finglas Woodland Working Group volunteers removed invasive Sitka spruce saplings from the banks of the Casaig burn. A beautiful spot with wild flowers, montane willow and ancient coppiced alder trees - all better off without those spruce!👍
📷 Pics by Ruth MacLean👏 #GlenFinglas
A man with a small dog stands in a large valley. Trees are creeping up the hill behind him and there is a loch in the distance.
Hamish and woofland assistant Olive take a pause to soak up the views and natural regeneration at #GlenFinglas 🌳
Glen Finglas is the largest site in our care, fit-to-burst with lush glens, hills, rivers and moorland.
Why not explore this summer 👉 buff.ly/I8XL885
A small red deer calf crouches in the grass. It has an unusual white blaze running from the top of its forehead to the tip of its pink nose. Credit WTML
👀 Spotted at #GlenFinglas - a 'badger-faced' red deer calf. 🦌
This one doesn't have blue eyes or white “socks” as some do, but the white stripe down its nose makes it fairly unique to the area.
Have you spotted any unusually pigmented deer?
Thanks Aidan for braving the camera to tell us about your volunteer role at #GlenFinglas and what you enjoy most about volunteering. 😍 We appreciate all that you and the team do to keep our biggest site safe, welcoming and full of life 🥾 🌳 🦅 #VolunteersWeek
Greater butterfly orchid on roadside verge at Brig o' Turk, Scotland. Image credit Niall Benvie
Here's our entry for #WildFlowerHour #OrchidChallenge 🌼
A beautiful #GreaterButterflyOrchid at #BrigoTurk near #GlenFinglas found on a roadside verge.
Want to know more about orchids? check out this blog 👉 buff.ly/jZZ40lo
@BSBIBotany
The recent fire at our #GlenFinglas estate features in this @theguardian.com story about the scourge of single-use BBQs.
We've had a dry spring and there could be more dry spells ahead this summer. Please take a picnic instead. No flames in the forest.
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🦡 Badgers at our #GlenFinglas estate are so full of beans at the moment!
The gorgeous bluebells of #GlenFinglas 💙 Need we say more?
These beauties were captured on the Drippan trail. Plan your visit 👉 buff.ly/mBc4tUv
A disposable bbq sitting in a pile of burned heather overlooking hills and a loch in the distance. Credit WTML
A large area of burned woodland next to a healthy woodland with hills in the distance. Only a handful of trees remain standing. Some are charred and dead. Credit WTML
A disposable bbq sitting on a rock surrounded by charred grassland and woodland. Credit WTML
A hillside on fire with smoke & flames visible in the distance. There is lush native woodland in the foreground. Credit WTML
We lost several hectares of native woodland at #GlenFinglas on Sat eve because a disposable BBQ was not disposed of safely. Frustrating, upsetting & so avoidable. There's more dry weather ahead, so please BE FIRE AWARE. Don't light a naked flame or throw cigarette ends into dry vegetation.😡
