There follows a series of about 80 photographs showing a typical TWCP survey day, starting at the Lyon, heading up the Inverinain Burn to 3400 ft on Meall Garbh, and then down the next little valley drained by the Allt Coire Thaochaidh back to the Lyon again.
South Chesthill fishing ghillie/ keeper Hamish Rae kindly gave us a lift up the first 1000 ft or so through the commercial forestry plantation. Gordon & Nelly surveyed all the minor tributaries of the Inverinain Burn, met at the top of Meall Garbh at noon, and then came down via two other tributaries further up the glen. We all got down within 15 minutes of each other at 4pm.
This is my own particular trip, I will post some photos from the others at the start of the week. We got some useful information about native woodland remnants, we found water voles both at high level and also down by the Lyon, red squirrels galore in the woods, and I gained some useful information regarding a hydro-electric application on this watercourse. As usual, other factors become apparent to you when out and about. The difficulties of extracting timber from a place like Glenlyon are very relevant to acheiving any sort of constructive habitat work involving commercial forestry, and I plan to look in to this a bit more and ask a few questions. Finally, making contacts like Hamish & his employers is always extremely useful, and these relationships will be essential to forwarding projects in Glenlyon in the future.
These photos are ordered going up to 3400 ft, and then down the other side and back to the Lyon again. Hopefully this will give you an insight in to what our 1000 mile survey entails on a daily basis.........
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