Latest Sightings and Photos for Species not Covered Elsewhere

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Tuesday 29th January 2008

Mountain Hare at Grunnafirth - Hugh Harrop

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Sunday 2nd September 2007

Autumn Gentian at Fladdabister - Dave Okill

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Friday 31st August 2007

Sea Aster at Isbister, Whalsay - Ann Henderson

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Wednesday 22nd August 2007

Polecat-ferret at Billister, Nesting - George Graham

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Thursday 9th August 2007

Bouy Barnacle at Heylor - Gordon Waddell

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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

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Tuesday 3rd April 2007

There are already tadpoles at Sandgarth, Voe.

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Saturday 31st March 2007

Mountain Hare - Karn Crow

This Mountain Hare still in winter pelage was at North Nesting.

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Tuesday 13th March 2007

There were 4 Mountain Hares on Scrae Field, Quarff.

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Monday 5th March 2007

About 50 Common Frogs are back at the pond at Oxensetter, Northmavine.

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Sunday 25th February 2007

There are 10 clumps of Common Frog spawn at Sandgarth, Voe.

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Thursday 22nd February 2007

A white-coated Stoat was seen at Fogrigrath, West Burrafirth.

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Friday 16th February 2007

A white-coated Stoat was dead in the road just north of Sand Water.

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Saturday 3rd February 2007

Lesser Celandine is already in flower at Sandgarth, Voe.

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Monday 25th December 2006

Deal Fish - Brydon Thomason

This Deal Fish was found still alive in the ebb on Fetlar.

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Wednesday 25th October 2006

A small bat, presumably a Nathusius' Pipistrelle was seen at close range at Swinister, Sandwick.

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Thursday 19th October 2006

This Deal Fish was found stranded on the shore at Norwick by Freda Gray and photographed by Barbara Priest.

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Wednesday 11th October 2006

A Nathusius' Pipistrelle was found at Sumburgh.

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Saturday 16th September 2006

A small bat, presumably a species of pipistrelle, was seen in Bakland, Lerwick, in the afternoon.

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Sunday 10th September 2006

Beadlet Anemones at Norwick - Wendy Dickson

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Saturday 9th September 2006

Dahlia Anemone and Chiton at Burrafirth - Wendy Dickson

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Friday 25th August 2006

mosses from the SBRC mosses course and Grass of Parnassus, all in the westside - Micky Maher

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Tuesday 15th August 2006

White Sedge at Northdale, Unst - Micky Maher

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Sunday 13th August 2006

English Stonecrop on Out Skerries - Micky Maher

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Sunday 6th August 2006

Curved Sedge at Quendale and Herb Robert and Grass-leaved Orache at Boddam - Micky Maher

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Thursday 3rd August 2006

Hedgehog at Norwick - Mike Pennington

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Monday 31st July 2006

Field Gentian at Clumlie - Dave Hall

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Tuesday 25th July 2006

Autumn Gentian and Frog Orchid at Baltasound - Micky Maher

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Monday 24th July 2006

Alpine Lady's Mantle on Ronas Hill; Red Bartsia at Grutness; Wood Burdock at Scatness - Micky Maher

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Tuesday 18th July 2006

Bog Orchid on Yell - Micky Maher

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Tuesday 4th July 2006

Frog Orchid and Arctic Sandwort on the Keen of Hamar - Micky Maher

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Monday 3rd July 2006

Wall Rue in Scalloway; Brittle Bladder Fern and Hart's Tongue in Lerwick - Micky Maher

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Sunday 2nd July 2006

Stone Bramble and Mountain Everlasting with Bird's-foot Trefoil on the Keen of Hamar - Mike Pennington

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Sunday 27th June 2006

Oysterplant at Urafirth - Micky Maher

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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

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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.

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Friday 12th May 2006

Moss Campion and Early Purple Orchid on the Keen of Hamar - Wendy Dickson

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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

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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.

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Sunday 12th February 2006

The first frogspawn has been reported from Dales Voe, Delting.

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Wednesday 25th January 2006

Lesser Celandine is already in bloom at Sandgarth, Voe.

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Saturday 3rd September 2005

Two fungi from Ronas Hill - a Russula sp. and Cep boletus edulis - Micky Maher.

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Friday 2nd September 2005

A bat sp. was seen at Veensgarth in the evening.

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Tuesday 2nd August 2005

Meadowsweet at Burrafirth - Wendy Dickson

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Friday 29th July 2005

 

Water Avens - Mike Pennington; Green Spleenwort and the endemic dandelion Taraxacum serpenticola - Micky Maher; all on the Heogs on Unst

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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

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Monday 4th July 2005

stranded Common Jellyfish at Burrafirth - Wendy Dickson

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Wednesday 1st June 2005

This Holly plant was found in a ditch at Baltasound, despite being about 500m from the nearest garden.

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Friday 18th March 2005

Frogspawn at Burrafirth - Wendy Dickson

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Wednesday 16th March 2005

The first frogspawn has been recorded at Voehead, Bressay.

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Tuesday 8th March 2005

The first Frogspawn has appeared at Feall, Haroldswick.

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Monday 7th March 2005

Frogs have returned to the pond at Oxensetter, Northmavine.

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Thursday 3rd March 2005

A Stoat was seen in North Nesting south of Laxo.

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Sunday 27th February 2005

Four clumps of Frogspawn were found in a ditch at Sandgarth, Voe.

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Saturday 4th September 2004

A Basking Shark was seen off Fetlar.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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Friday 7th March 2003

The first frogspawn of the year was noted in the Haroldswick mires at Tupton.

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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.