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 […]
Author Archives: Alan Watson Featherstone
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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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 […]