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Gus Routledge

@PinkfootedGus

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

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Katılım Nisan 2015
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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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@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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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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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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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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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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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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@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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@PinkfootedGus Do you think the South loch Ness scheme to incentivise culling sika will make any difference?
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