Whitmuir Estate
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Small environmentally friendly estate in the Ale Water Valley - Scottish Borders.
Spotting lots of
#Butterflies
during FIT counts on my
@pomscheme.bsky.social
square today. Mostly beside and not in FIT count area. Good to see them but always hope they do not make it to the pan traps.....
@ukceh.bsky.social
20 days ago
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Forecast predicted a good day for
@pomscheme.bsky.social
visit to my square. Wind stronger and cooler than predicted. Brown Hare showing interest. At least one Hoverfly about. Spider reading text about exlusion. Glyphipterix simpliciella doing great job keeping averages up.
@ukceh.bsky.social
20 days ago
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This leveret has been living in one of our open farm sheds for the last month. Managed to get a few pictures first thing this morning.
about 1 month ago
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Some fresh Canadian fluffballs have appeared on one of our farm ponds.
#FarmPonds
about 1 month ago
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Roe Deer - Capreolus capreolus buck and Robin - Erithacus rubecula meet for breakfast on a cold morning.
5 months ago
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During this cold spell I keep seeing Snipe - Gallinago gallinago coming out of one of our damp ditches on the farm. They are happy to pose for the Camera. Amazing feather markings.
5 months ago
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Yesterday I saw some Common bird’s nest fungus - Crucibulum laeve. It was raining hard at the time, I was hoping to see the periodoles being launched, turns out they are shy and do not do it when you are watching.
#Fungi
7 months ago
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Even arboreal
#Badgers
have night shifts that do no always go to plan.
#trailcamera
#boar
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8 months ago
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Our
#grassland
has come alive with
#fungi
in the last week. Fly Agaric and Panther Cap on Rockrose, Hygrocybe spadicea - Date Waxcap, Entoloma nigroviolaceum - Dark Purple Pinkgill and Entoloma porphyrophaeum - Lilac Pinkgill are just some of them.
@naturescot.bsky.social
8 months ago
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Not sure about the shepherd but the sheep have been warned this morning.
8 months ago
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We moved this Pine Marten feeder higher up the Pine tree out of reach of the
#Badgers
. Forgot we have Arboreal Badgers at Whitmuir.
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9 months ago
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There is a colour ring project on our farm for our Nuthatch - Sitta europaea families. 41 youngsters received a ring this year. The resident adults are being targeted now. This male (FC) got a (white) colour ring. If you see him or any others report to
www.bto.org
thanks
@wildborders.bsky.social
9 months ago
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Brown Hare relaxing in a field full of cattle.
9 months ago
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Last night's Badger survey on the farm. 4 people in different spots counted all the Badgers they could see at the same time. Result was 31, on just a fraction of the land. With dry weather sending the earthworms deeper it is no wonder they go for Pine Marten food up a tree.
@wildborders.bsky.social
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10 months ago
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#PineMarten
- Martes martes out looking for breakfast and a wee (or two).
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10 months ago
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A Jay - Garrulus glandarius sunbathing in front of Pine Marten tree.
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10 months ago
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Fourth and final 2025 visit to my
@pomscheme.bsky.social
square on arable land. Still not much in the way of flowers about. Several butterflies in the pantraps. Harvestmen helping with form filling.
@ukceh.bsky.social
10 months ago
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Third 2025 visit to my
@pomscheme.bsky.social
square on arable land. Bit lacking in flowering plants on the stubble. Lot of Speckled Wood about. Not often you get to record a Harvestman on a pollinator survey
@meganshersby.bsky.social
@ukceh.bsky.social
11 months ago
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Badger - Meles meles up a tree.
#ArborealBadgers
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11 months ago
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Lapwing - Vanellus vanellus chick growing up fast.
11 months ago
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One of the local
#Bats
getting close and personal with one of the
#PineMarten
cameras
@batconservation.bsky.social
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11 months ago
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Light Arches - Apamea lithoxylaea spotted on a fence post today.
#teammoth
12 months ago
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Second
@pomscheme.bsky.social
km square visit of the year. Calm conditions and decent temperature. Pan trap activity has been a bit slow at the start.
@ukceh.bsky.social
12 months ago
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Decent day for my 1st 2025
@pomscheme.bsky.social
1 kmsq survey. There is a lot of yellow competition with the pantraps today! On the FIT counts there were small pollen munching aliens about on the Daisies and Cocksfoot Moth on both Dandelion and Hawthorn.
@ukceh.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
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Orange-tip - Anthocharis cardamines sitting waiting for a female to come past our farm hedge.
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
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Brown Hare - Lepus europaeus sitting beside our farm track checking on who is all passing.
@mammalsociety.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
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Good to see one of our
#PineMarten
out in the sunshine. Winter coat colour very clear.
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about 1 year ago
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Another Jay - Garrulus glandarius at another trail camera taking selfies.
about 1 year ago
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Jay - Garrulus glandarius posing in front of a camera put up to track Pine Martens. In fact the Jay loves making selfies a bit too much.
about 1 year ago
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Hoverflies are out in numbers doing their thing. Good time to do a
@pomscheme.bsky.social
#FITcount
see
ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts
about 1 year ago
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Someone has built a home on an island in one of our ponds. A possible Canada Goose - Branta canadensis, we do have some hybrids with Greylag Geese in the area. Will be a surprise to see what hatches. Sometimes the Otters raid the nest.
about 1 year ago
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Small Tortoiseshell - Aglais urticae enjoying the Common Dandelion Taraxacum officinale feast on the farm.
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
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It's time having Common gorse - Ulex europaeus on farmland is seen as a positive and not penalised in farm payment rules. It makes no sense to incentivise land managers to legally burn this habitat when covered in wildlife.
about 1 year ago
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This is The Herald - Scoliopteryx libatrix which spent the winter in our cold Bothy toilet. I brought it out in the lovely weather so it could wake up in the warmth of the Sun.
#teammoth
about 1 year ago
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Time to plan your holiday to our valley!
about 1 year ago
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Sallow catkins are an important food source for butterflies after hibernation.
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
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about 1 year ago
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Glorious day to be planting 100 Purging Buckthorn- Rhamnus cathartica. Getting ready for Brimstone butterflies to keep heading North in the future. Skylarks singing overhead.
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
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Salix gracilistyla 'Melanostachys' - with its striking black catkins coming into flower beside one of our farm ponds.
over 1 year ago
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Just entered the results for our
@gwct.org.uk
2025
#BigFarmlandBirdCount
. After 12 years counting we have lots of data from our farm. Not always sure what to make of it, but good fun.
over 1 year ago
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Wet and stormy, but a bit milder, great day to prune our 7 pleached Limes before the birds get too excited.
over 1 year ago
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Nice to see thirtythree Oystercatcher - Haematopus ostralegus out for a feed.
over 1 year ago
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Fezzy inspecting the pleached Lime trees as the snow is slowly falling this cold morning.
over 1 year ago
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Picked up a
#trailcamera
after 5 days which had been left on some bird seed. 22078 Pictures of mostly Badgers and finches, including Bramblings and some Wood Mice for good measure. Twentytwo K is a lot to go through.....
over 1 year ago
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Shepherd's warning? Sheep seem relaxed.
over 1 year ago
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Amazing how fluffy the
#PineMarten
winter coat is.
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over 1 year ago
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reposted by
Whitmuir Estate
Katty Baird
over 1 year ago
Agree. Mark and Roy's book, The Larger Moths of Scotland highly recommended 👌 🦋🐛
#TeamMoth
add a skeleton here at some point
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Still very much Winter at the farm.
over 1 year ago
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Whitmuir Moss looking mossy.
#RoeDeer
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over 1 year ago
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We never really see our
#PineMartens
out and about. But through the network of
#TrailCameras
we know what they get up to. When they pose in front of the camera to show off their whiskers it gets even better.
over 1 year ago
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