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Saturday 7th March 2010
The first frogspawn has been sighted at Sandgarth,
Voe.
Thursday 4th March 2010
Flying Squid Todarodes
sagittatus on Bressay - Glen Tyler
Saturday 27th February 2010
Mountain Hare at Nesting -
Brydon Thomason
Saturday 12th December 2009
Deal-fish - Helen Moncrieff
This Deal-fish was found dead on the beach at
West Voe of Sumburgh - it was 160 cm long and 30 cm deep.
Sunday 11th October 2009
A dead Sunfish was found on Skaw
beach.
Friday 17th July 2009
Albino Polecat x Ferret at Levenwick - Barbara Dinnage
Thursday 16th July 2009
Noctilucent clouds - Ivan Hawick
Tuesday 23rd June 2009
Parti-coloued Bat at Lerwick - Glen Tyler; Polecat x Ferret at Exnaboe - John Moncrieff
A Parti-coloured Bat with a broken wing was found at Bell's Brae school, Lerwick.
Friday 12th June 2009
Hedgehog at Cunningsburgh - Robin Gosden
Wednesday 27th May 2009
"Yellow rabbit" at Tresta - Ian Nicolson
Wednesday 1st April 2009
Arctic Hare at Cunningsburgh - George Petrie
Friday 6th March 2009
Arctic Hares at Nesting - Hugh Harrop; and at
Sandsound - Ray Johnston
Wednesday 25th February 2009
Frogs have returned to
the pond at Oxensetter in Northmavine.
Monday 23rd February 2009
bat sp. at Lerwick - Gary Bell
A bat sp. was flying around Pullars Loch at Ness
of Sound, Lerwick, in the afternoon.
Friday 9th January 2009
A small bat seen flying around a house in South
Trondra on about 20the December 2008 was found dead today and identified as a
Nathusius' Pipistrelle.
Wednesday
10th December 2008
pipistrelle sp. - Mike Pennington
This presumed Nathusius' Pipistrelle was
found at Haroldswick, where it flew into the hall and was caught in a teatowel.
It was taken to Halligarth, where it was released and flew off strongly. The
only pipistrelle confirmed in Shetland so far is Nathusius's Pipistrelle, a
scarce migrant from eastern Europe.
Friday 17th October 2008
Stoat near Mossbank - George Graham
Friday 4th July 2008
English Stonecrop on Out Skerries - Wendy Dickson
Friday 16th May 2008
Shetland Mouse-ear, Moss Campion, Early Purple Orchid and Thrift at Keen of Hamar - Vaila Smith
Tuesday 29th January 2008
Mountain Hare at Grunnafirth - Hugh Harrop
Sunday 2nd September 2007
Autumn Gentian at Fladdabister - Dave Okill
Friday 31st August 2007
Sea Aster at Isbister, Whalsay - Ann Henderson
Wednesday 22nd August 2007
Polecat-ferret at Billister, Nesting - George Graham
Thursday 9th August 2007
Bouy Barnacle at Heylor - Gordon Waddell
Monday 14th May 2007
Shetland Mouse-ear, Early Purple Orchid, Northern Rockcress,
moss sp., Frog Orchid (with Moss Campion) and Alpine Meadow-rue all on Keen of
Hamar - Vaila Smith
Tuesday 3rd April 2007
There are already tadpoles at Sandgarth, Voe.
Saturday 31st March 2007
Mountain Hare - Karn Crow
This Mountain Hare still in winter pelage was at North
Nesting.
Tuesday 13th March 2007
There were 4 Mountain Hares on Scrae Field, Quarff.
Monday 5th March 2007
About 50 Common Frogs are back at the pond at Oxensetter, Northmavine.
Sunday 25th February 2007
There are 10 clumps of Common Frog spawn at Sandgarth, Voe.
Thursday 22nd February 2007
A white-coated Stoat was seen at Fogrigrath, West Burrafirth.
Friday 16th February 2007
A white-coated Stoat was dead in the road just north of Sand Water.
Saturday 3rd February 2007
Lesser Celandine is already in flower at Sandgarth, Voe.
Monday 25th December 2006
Deal Fish - Brydon Thomason
This Deal Fish was found still alive in the ebb on Fetlar.
Wednesday 25th October 2006
A small bat, presumably a Nathusius' Pipistrelle was seen at close range at
Swinister, Sandwick.
Thursday 19th October 2006
This Deal Fish was found stranded on the shore at Norwick by Freda
Gray and photographed by Barbara Priest.
Wednesday 11th October 2006
A Nathusius' Pipistrelle was found at Sumburgh.
Saturday 16th September 2006
A small bat, presumably a species of pipistrelle, was seen in Bakland,
Lerwick, in the afternoon.
Sunday 10th September 2006
Beadlet Anemones at Norwick - Wendy Dickson
Saturday 9th September 2006
Dahlia Anemone and Chiton at Burrafirth - Wendy Dickson
Friday 25th August 2006
mosses from the SBRC mosses course and Grass of Parnassus, all in the
westside
- Micky
Maher
Tuesday 15th August 2006
White Sedge at Northdale, Unst
- Micky
Maher
Sunday 13th August 2006
English Stonecrop on Out Skerries
- Micky
Maher
Sunday 6th August 2006
Curved Sedge at Quendale and Herb Robert and Grass-leaved Orache at Boddam
-
Micky Maher
Thursday 3rd August 2006
Hedgehog at Norwick
-
Mike
Pennington
Monday 31st July 2006
Field Gentian at Clumlie - Dave Hall
Tuesday 25th July 2006
Autumn Gentian and Frog Orchid at Baltasound
-
Micky Maher
Monday 24th July 2006
Alpine Lady's Mantle on Ronas Hill; Red Bartsia at Grutness;
Wood Burdock at Scatness
-
Micky Maher
Tuesday 18th July 2006
Bog Orchid on Yell
-
Micky Maher
Tuesday 4th July 2006
Frog Orchid and Arctic Sandwort on the Keen of Hamar
-
Micky Maher
Monday 3rd July 2006
Wall Rue in Scalloway; Brittle Bladder Fern and Hart's
Tongue in Lerwick
-
Micky Maher
Sunday 2nd July 2006
Stone Bramble and Mountain Everlasting with Bird's-foot
Trefoil on the Keen of Hamar
-
Mike
Pennington
Sunday 27th June 2006
Oysterplant at Urafirth -
Micky Maher
Friday 16th June 2006
Frog Orchid
-
Mike
Pennington;
Early Purple Orchid - Robert Gray; Moss Campion - Lauren Brewster;
Edmondston's Chickweed - Stuart Ferguson: all at Keen of Hamar
Sunday 11th June 2006
Water Avens at Sandgarth - Tony & Beth Gerrard
Although known from this site for many years this site may be 'new' as it is
not in Scott & Palmer's 1987 county flora.
Friday 12th May 2006
Moss Campion and Early Purple Orchid on the Keen of Hamar - Wendy Dickson
Wednesday 15th March 2006
About 30 Common Frogs have appeared in the garden pond at Oxensetter
in Northmavine; they are 10 days later than last year (not surprisingly given
the weather).
Common Frogs - Stan Brown
Sunday 12th March 2006
About 10 Common Frogs are in a garden pond at Voehead, Bressay,
although the first frogspawn appeared amongst the last of the ice
yesterday.
Sunday 12th February 2006
The first frogspawn has been reported from Dales Voe, Delting.
Wednesday 25th January 2006
Lesser Celandine is already in bloom at Sandgarth, Voe.
Saturday 3rd September 2005
Two fungi from Ronas Hill - a Russula sp. and Cep boletus
edulis -
Micky Maher.
Friday 2nd September 2005
A bat sp. was seen at Veensgarth in the evening.
Tuesday 2nd August 2005
Meadowsweet at Burrafirth - Wendy Dickson
Friday 29th July 2005
Water Avens - Mike
Pennington; Green Spleenwort and the endemic dandelion Taraxacum
serpenticola
-
Micky Maher;
all
on the Heogs on Unst
Thursday 28th July 2005
Three Unst Heiraceums - the Shetland endemics H. australius
and H. gratum and two photos of the more widespread H. sparsifolium -
Micky Maher
Monday 4th July 2005
stranded Common Jellyfish at Burrafirth - Wendy Dickson
Wednesday 1st June 2005
This Holly plant was found in a ditch at Baltasound, despite being about 500m
from the nearest garden.
Friday 18th March 2005
Frogspawn at Burrafirth - Wendy Dickson
Wednesday 16th March 2005
The first frogspawn has been recorded at Voehead, Bressay.
Tuesday 8th March 2005
The first Frogspawn has appeared at Feall, Haroldswick.
Monday 7th March 2005
Frogs have returned to the pond at Oxensetter, Northmavine.
Thursday 3rd March 2005
A Stoat was seen in North Nesting south of Laxo.
Sunday 27th February 2005
Four clumps of Frogspawn were found in a ditch at Sandgarth, Voe.
Saturday 4th September 2004
A Basking Shark was seen off Fetlar.
Sunday 15th August 2004
There was a 1.5m Sunfish feeding off Vaila
off west Mainland in the evening and another about 2m high off Foula.
Three Basking Sharks were seen off the Scalloway isles.
Monday 25th August
2003
Wendy Dickson found a freshly dead Skipper
or Saury Scomberesox saurus on Burrafirth beach today. It is
mainly a Mediterranean fish but they shoal northwards in summer and sometimes
get as far as Bering Sea.
Sunday 24th August
2003
This bat was found at the RAF
camp at Haroldswick. Because it was in an area where children were playing, it
was put in a shoe box (without being handled) and moved to Halligarth, where it
was released. It was unclear at first whether it was Leisler's Bat or
Parti-coloured Bat, the latter a rare migrant which is not well-covered in the
literature. First Tony Blunden, and then Leif Gjerde (of the Norsk
Informasjonssenter for Flaggermus), saw the photos and suggested that it
appeared to be Parti-coloured Bat, and this identification has been
confirmed by Dr Hans J.
Baagøe, Curator of Mammals of the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen
.
Parti-coloured Bat on release at Baltasound - photo Margaret
Pennington, videograb Mike Pennington
It is the fifth Shetland record, although of course most bats seen in Shetland are not
identified.
Friday 20th June
2003
Two plants not seen on Unst for 40 years have been relocated
by Sandy Payne. Both are on the edge of the Hill of Colvadale.
Three-flowered Rush is not known from any
other site in Shetland, while Alpine Saw-wort
is otherwise known only from Ronas Hill, and has not been seen there
since 1993.
Alpine Saw-wort -
Mike Pennington
Saturday 31st May 2003
Today was the Keen of Hamar Open Day - a chance to see the
reserve's special plants such as Edmondston's Chickweed
and Norwegian Sandwort. It is also an
exceptional year for flowering Stone Bramble
- the plant normally reproduces vegetatively and flowers are relatively
rare. Also seen were white-flowered specimens of both
Heath Dog Violet and
Spring Squill.
Stone Bramble (and Kidney Vetch) -
Mike Pennington
Monday
24th March 2003
PLEASE NOTE: since the recent unfortunate death of a bat worker who
contacted rabies, members of the public are strongly advised NOT to handle any
bats, even if they are ill or in distress. Dennis and Liz Buddle found a bat roosting on the harling on
the wall of their house at Haroldswick today. It was taken into care and will,
hopefully, be taken to more suitable bat habitat soon. From measurements it is
probably a Nathusius' Pipistrelle, a vagrant
from eastern Europe, which is the most frequent species of bat found in
Shetland.
The Unst bat - photo
Micky Maher
Friday
7th March 2003
The first
frogspawn
of the year was noted in the Haroldswick mires at Tupton.
Tuesday
11th February 2003
A dead
Common Frog,
found squashed on the road at Burrafirth, is not only rather early but also the
observer's first at the site.
Nature in Shetland
