#knapdale

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Sea View , Crinan - Dale Bissland

Scottish , b. 1985 -

Oil on panel , 80 x 60 cm.

[wild-e-eep]

A splendidly shaggy #FencepostOfTheWeek capped with Spaherophorus globosus - which is a lichen I don't often see on fenceposts.

[livesunique]

Kilberry Castle, Kilberry, Argyll and Bute, Scotland,

Credit: Knight Frank

[wild-e-eep]

Horn of plenty - Craterellus cornucopioides from last September.

[wild-e-eep]

This fencepost was actually a live, in-situ oak tree which had fencing wire looped around it. You can see the scarring where the tree continued to grow, enveloping the wires.

Although the main trunk has been dead for many years now, there is still a sliver of living bark running up the left side, supplying a few twigs with life. #FencepostOfTheWeek

[benvironment]

Yesterday was one of those luminous Scottish autumn days  The next few days looked nice too, but because yesterday was forecast to be less windy, that's the one we picked for a walk in Knapdale.....cos we knew it would mean reflections.

We started off at Barnluasgan and skirted around Loch Coille-Bharr. No sign of beavers, but didn't expect to given the time of day. Still, we bumped into a Forest & Land Scotland bod out on patrol and had a great chat about all sorts. He was out looking for new beaver gnawings in case any newly-unsafe trees were about to threaten the path. Still never seen a beaver, but always fascinating to see the evidence.

Much of the long walk was also below a broadleaf canopy, which is still a bit of a novelty for me in Argyll, but then there was a sudden emergence onto the very calm sea water around the Faery Isles....before continuing to the end of the peninsula and the open views across to Taynish.

It rained at that point, but that did mean the most stunning rainbow above the golden oak woodland! That's something that this part of the world does really well - coastal broadleaf woodland, and it looks all the more beautiful when it's gnarled, twisty old oaks.

All in all, a fantastic day in Knapdale !

[patrickmackie]

A beaver walk

Last Sunday, before social-distancing rules really kicked in, H and I went for a walk down to the Dubh Loch in Knapdale, just to see what the beavers had been up to over the winter. Answer: plenty. Here are some photos of what was easily-seen and which shows examples of beaver signs for those who’ve not seen them before.

Yes, busy as as beaver is a thing.

Beaver feeding station beside Loch…

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