As part of our work to identify the biodiversity of the Findhorn Hinterland area we commissioned Liz Holden, Scotland’s leading mycologist, to carry out a survey of the fungi that are present on the site. She spent two days on the Hinterland in 2020, at the beginning of September and in mid-October, and then returned […]
Author Archives: Alan Watson Featherstone
A Sense of Wonder
Magical Images from the Land Captured by Alan Watson-Featherstone Although the land that the Findhorn Hinterland Trust manages is relatively small in area, it is nevertheless rich in its biological diversity. In most cases this does not consist of large and charismatic species (our largest is the roe deer), but instead comprises many beautiful, and often brightly coloured […]
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Abundant berries on the Findhorn Hinterland
As anyone who walks out on the Hinterland area will have seen, there’s an abundance of berries there just now. The most obvious of these are the red berries on the rowan trees and the blackberries on the brambles (it’s a particularly good year for them). However, there are also other berries to be seen […]
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Hinterland Hazel
By Alan Featherstone Watson This is another of my occasional articles about the biodiversity of the Findhorn Hinterland area, this time about hazel trees in spring. After the snow melted in the middle of February, the warmer weather has really accelerated the coming of spring, and many people will have noticed one of the first […]
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Hinterland Biodiversity
Whilst there’s already a lot of knowledge about some groups of organisms, such as lichens and birds, there is much still to be learned about the fungi, insects, slime moulds and many other forms of life that are our immediate neighbours on the land.
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Slime Moulds on the Hinterland
Here’s an excellent article by Alan Watson Featherstone, to view or download as a pdf: Slime Moulds on the Hinterland
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Storm Arwen – natural disturbance in action
On the night of Friday 26th-Saturday 27th November 2021, a major storm, called Storm Arwen by meteorologists, hit the east coast of Scotland with very strong winds of up to 90 mph. Unusually, the wind direction came from the northeast (most of the country’s stormy weather comes from the southwest) and this resulted in many […]