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Gus Routledge

@PinkfootedGus

Forests, hills, bogs, boreo-temperate-oceanic stuff & everything in them (incl people). Ecologist. Tweets definitely my own.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Beigetreten Nisan 2015
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Gus Routledge@PinkfootedGus·
Lepidozia cupressina was a nice find right by the path on a wee walk at Falls of Foyers, only the second record from around Loch Ness, the first being in 1961 by the notorious D. Ratcliffe.
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Seems this pic I took of myself & Cuilean stood by a patch of mossy stonecrop (Crassula tillaea) at Opinan back in mid September is only the second Wester Ross record of this species. As per usual, growing in a car park.
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Found a new site for Canadian fleabane (Erigeron canadensis) whilst going to get my car washed in Inverness a couple days ago, second Invernesian record of this adventive.
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Gus Routledge@PinkfootedGus·
@Watts_SH Woah whaaaaat?! Can't even think where that would be! Got a couple guesses...
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Sarah Watts
Sarah Watts@Watts_SH·
I'm super excited that a #lichen of international significance has been discovered at #Corrour! Yellow Specklebelly (Pseudocyphellaria citrina) is a temperate #rainforest specialist & this find on an old Goat #Willow is unusually far east for #Lochaber. Record &📷 by Ian Strachan
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Gus Routledge@PinkfootedGus·
Looking for a research project? Keen on trees & the montane environment? Here's an exciting PhD project on "mountain birch" (first job surely will be defining what that even is!) in Scotland!
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We're recruiting for an exciting new #PhD project in #mountain #woodland restoration! "The genetic diversity & adaptive potential of mountain birch in Scotland for high-altitude nature recovery" hosted by @UK_CEH, @StirUni & @Forest_Research Apply here: iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships/t…

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Gus Routledge@PinkfootedGus·
Had to wait a bit to post this until both were confirmed, but my other 2 finds from this particular job that I was gey chuffed with were Sphagnum majus & S. affine, neither of which I’d seen before so it was great to pick them out! #Corrour
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Of course, being on peatlands I’ve always got an eye out for nice Sphagna so I was delighted to find quite a decent population of Sphagnum pulchrum! One of our most stunning Sphagnum mosses & an indicator of a reasonably good bit of bog but can cling on in suboptimal conditions.

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Gus Routledge@PinkfootedGus·
Attended a great wee workshop last week organised by @PlantlifeScot at @NatureScot Muir of Dinnet NNR looking at the nationally rare aspen bristle-moss (Nyholmiella gymnostoma), also seeing the endangered Nyholmiella obtusifolia & nationally scarce Lewinskya speciosa.
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Gus Routledge@PinkfootedGus·
@_JamieMcIntyre Yeah the beech in there is pretty bad really. If that orange blur was green Rhododendron then it’d be wiped out of there. Maybe should’ve lumped it with the Sitka, hemlock & Doug-fir!
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Jamie McIntyre
Jamie McIntyre@_JamieMcIntyre·
@PinkfootedGus The one I'd probably be less relaxed about than you would be beech - I'm finding it very invasive in the west, and once established it then begins to suppress everything else. Even on peat, which seems counter-intuitive....
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Gus Routledge@PinkfootedGus·
Pretty galling seeing Rhododendron ponticum invading this strip of pedunculate oak woodland at the north end of Loch Ness. Also been historically underplanted with beech, pine & larch (not too bad) & more recently invaded by Sitka spruce, Doug-fir & western hemlock (pretty bad).
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Gus Routledge@PinkfootedGus·
@Matt_J_ecology Whaaaaaaaat?! Swear I've seen this somewhere but passed it off as a small, emerging individual of a generally larger species, can't remember where it was. Will know to keep an eye out from now on I guess!
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Matthew jones
Matthew jones@Matt_J_ecology·
The Glistening Waxcaps (Gloioxanthomyces vitellinus) have popped up again locally 😍 By far our smallest Waxcap, classed as endangered on the red list and always fab to see.
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Gus Routledge@PinkfootedGus·
@bardseyben Really, really bad round here but they’re pretty bad in quite a few places, like round Ceeag Meagaidh & up around central/southeast Sutherland.
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Ben Porter
Ben Porter@bardseyben·
@PinkfootedGus Gorgeous drone shot! Looks perfect for a kettle hole. Shame about the deer impact. Hadn’t realised Sika was an issue up there too!!!
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Gus Routledge@PinkfootedGus·
So many Sika deer (Cervus nippon) around locally. Heaps of them. Can really see the trampling impact they're having on this local lochan (which I suspect is a kettle hole). A few nice Sphagna to be found still but the coralroot orchid still evades me... Must be there...
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Gus Routledge@PinkfootedGus·
@croftingmannie Ah, aye that seems a bit short-sighted & plays into the hands of the larger landowner, as these things often do 🙄 I could get the dog to try herd a few more on to your croft?
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Tim Rose
Tim Rose@croftingmannie·
@PinkfootedGus My problem is you don't get paid for the first 5 which works against wee crofters opportunistically shooting the odd one out of the bathroom window!!!!
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Tim Rose
Tim Rose@croftingmannie·
@PinkfootedGus nature.scot/professional-a… Naturescot has £95k to pay as bounty for culling sika in the south loch Ness area this season. In theory that's about 1500 this year. I haven't heard anything locally about uptake.
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Gus Routledge@PinkfootedGus·
@croftingmannie Hadn't even heard of it! There's definitely also plenty reds about to shoot too so I don't see why anyone wouldn't want to significantly reduce the Sika population. Who's heading up the scheme you mention?
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Tim Rose@croftingmannie·
@PinkfootedGus Do you think the South loch Ness scheme to incentivise culling sika will make any difference?
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