ASSYNT LICHEN RECORDS

October 28th 2024

Assynt Wildlife Records Digitisation Project

This Project is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Scottish Natural Heritage

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ASSYNT LICHEN RECORDS

The information being made available here has had no interpretation applied.

Many years of work have gone into collating the data very kindly supplied here by Caz Walker and Chris Cant.

Caz and Chris are frequent visitors to Assynt and much (most!) of their time is now devoted to recording lichens.

Here is an article on our website by them following a visit in June 2023. Montane Lichens on Quinag

In his spare time Chris has created UK wide interactive maps based on data available from the British Lichen Society.

The data on our website is free to download but if you make use of it please acknowledge the source with the suggested citation –

Assynt Field Club; Assynt Wildlife Records Digitisation Project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and NatureScot [Scottish Natural Heritage]

Thank you. 

Assynt Lichen Records – as supplied by Caz Walker and Chris Cant, October 2024 (1.1MB xlsx)

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Recent Sightings

Sanderling

Two feeding along the shoreline at Clashnessie Beach (Pete) (20/08)

Fox Moth Caterpillar

One at Torbreck (Cheryl Smith) (17/08)

Burying Beetle

One in a garden at Torbreck (Cheryl Smith) (12/08)

Bee Beetle

One in a garden at Torbreck (Cheryl Smith) (11/08)

Golden Eagle

One at Elphin (Pete) (11/08)

Scotch Argus butterfly

Four at two locations along Drumbeg Peat Road (Vince Hilton) (09/08)

Barn Owl

Hunting at last light, c. 22:00, Eadar da' sloc, near Lochinver (Michael Rochester) (08/08)

Spotted Flycatcher

A family group of three nested locally (Stefan Taylor) (04/08)

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