Assynt Naturalists

Assynt Naturalists

The Field Club has been efficient over the years at recording and making information available about Assynt’s wildlife. However, we have not been as diligent at providing information about our wildlife recorders!

This section of our website was created in January 2019 to help address this. We will use this page to put faces to some of the Assynt Naturalists who have provided the ‘what, where and when’ during the history of the Field Club.

Sadly, by the nature of such a section, we are most likely to be providing obituaries of those naturalists who gave so freely and happily of their time and expertise. They have provided us all with a unique opportunity to gain a much fuller understanding and appreciation of Assynt’s Wildlife.

We also aim to acknowledge those who are still recording and reporting; we hope that this page will also be able to satisfy that ambition.

John Philip Blunt (1943-2011): An Appreciation [The Highland Naturalist 8, pp. 32-33 (May 2012)] (1.2MB docx + jpeg)

Patricia Anne Evans (1929-2015): Obituary [BSBI Yearbook 2016 pp. 95-99 (2016)] (260KB pdf)

Claire Belshaw (1960 -2023): An Appreciation

Douglas Miller Reid (1897-1959): an overlooked Highland naturalist

Report a Sighting

Recent Sightings

Sparrowhawk

One at Clashnessie Township (Pete Wayne) (15/09)

Merganser

Two feeding in the lagoon at Clashnessie Beach (Pete Wayne) (13/09)

Curlew

Three at Stoer Bay (Pete Wayne) (12/09)

Gannet

Three fishing in Stoer Bay (Pete Wayne) (12/09)

Grey Heron

Two at Oldany Moorings (Pete Wayne) (11/09)

Curlew

Three at Oldany Moorings (Pete Wayne) (11/09)

Gannet

Two fishing in Clashnessie Bay (Pete Wayne) (11/09)

Sparrowhawk

One female scaring chickens in a Clashnessie garden (Pete Wayne) (11/09)

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