Fife & Kinross Local Group, Scottish Wildlife Trust
@fifekinrossswt
Posting photos and information about wildlife in the Fife & Kinross area and further afield.
On #NationalBogDay a stunning sundew from our Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve at Bankhead Moss. Unfortunately climate change and encroachment by birch are a real challenge to lowland peat bogs like this #FifeWildlife #ClimateChange #botany @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social @scotwildlife.bsky.social
Little Grebes try to nest on irrigation ponds near here. Unfortunately when water’s pumped out nests are damaged + chicks abandoned. This chick was lucky. Of course if farms didn’t build reservoirs there would be no habitat in our area for grebes at all! Overall a plus for biodiversity…
A stunning Elephant Hawk Moth from my monitoring session in North Fife last night. #NationalMothWeek @savebutterflies.bsky.social #FifeWildlife @mothiduk.bsky.social @wtylerbatt.bsky.social
Water levels are at record low levels in parts of Fife. One of our members recorded this otter walking along a dried out burn where they would usually be playing in the water. #globalwarming #Fifewildlife #otters #drought #climatechange
A hot morning above Carphin Farm in Fife with Fife & Kinross Local Group Scottish Wildlife Trust @scotwildlife.bsky.social hearing about farming with nature. Searched for and found Northern Brown Argus, Dark Green Fritillary and at least 8 other butterfly species. @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Out with the botanical monitors this morning at our Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve at Fleecefaulds Meadow. Bonus was the grasshopper warbler that sang throughout @scotwildlife.bsky.social @fifebirdnews.bsky.social
Only six species caught in the moth trap last night but this beauty, Garden Tiger, made up for the lack of variety.
Members of Fife & Kinross Local Group Scottish Wildlife Trust enjoying a bright but breezy‘Birding for Beginners’ walk on the Fife Coastal Path between Kilminning and Fife Ness @scotwildlife.bsky.social #Fifebirding #wildlife #Fife #nature
Today’s Fife & Kinross Local Group of Scottish Wildlife Trust walk at Cults near Cupar #Fife. We learned about veteran trees, coppicing, the local history of limestone mining and saw a variety of fungi and lichens @scotwildlife.bsky.social #trees #Fifewildlife
A muddy morning planting grasses for the salt marsh restoration project at Tayport on the River #Tay #GreenShores #saltmarsh #scottishwildlife #Fife
A number of birds like this yellowhammer , song thrushes and great tits have started singing around here and the great spotted woodpeckers are drumming. #fifenature #spring #fifebirding
A selection of lichens from our @scotwildlife.bsky.social Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve at Fleecefaulds Meadow today. #lichens #Fife
Not a single bird seen in this #Fife woodland but, with all the vegetation died back, a good opportunity for finding #mosses and #lichens. #FifeNature @petravergunst.bsky.social @britishlichensociety.org.uk #winter
#Fife is such a great county! Boxing Day and miles of empty beach. Tentsmuir Forest National Nature Reserve @naturescot.bsky.social in the distance. #Fifenature #Scotland
A very happy Christmas to all our followers. One of 15 redpolls in a flock of goldfinches yesterday
It never seemed to get properly light under the dense cloud today and most birds were staying hidden…..but there’s always at least one show off! Male stonechat. Check fence lines and the tops of bushes. #Fifenature #winterbirding
Warmer winters may be changing the flowering times of plants, with knock-on effects for all our wildlife. The Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland needs your help to track this. Join the New Year Plant Hunt this January bsbi.org/take-part/ac... @bsbibotany.bsky.social #plants #botany
Newly created pond on a #Fife farm. Wet areas like this will become increasingly important to wildlife as climate change progresses. Good to see some farmers responding to the challenge. @scotwildlife.bsky.social #climatechange #conservation
Fife & Kinross Local Group of Scottish Wildlife Trust @scotwildlife.bsky.social had a great event on Sunday evening. Libby Penman, wildlife filmmaker and photographer entertained us with great slides and videos of wildlife from @Fife, Scotland and across the world. www.instagram.com/libby.penman...
Still a few moths about in north #Fife. A well-marked Mottled Umber and a male December Moth with cracking antennae from last night’s catch. #moths #mothing @mothiduk.bsky.social @nature.org @naturescot.bsky.social @scotwildlife.bsky.social
It’s always worth scanning the fields at this time of year. This nice flock of thirty golden plovers has been hanging around for a couple of weeks. #Fife #Fifewildlife #waders #winter #birdingScotland
Today’s work party on our Bankhead Moss reserve in #Fife cleared birch saplings from the central dome of the raised peak bog where they had been encroaching #Fifewildlife #conservation #peatbogs
Plenty of hawthorn berries on our Fleecefaulds Meadow reserve for the redwings and fieldfares this winter #berries #ScottishWildlifeTrust #winter @scottishbirding.bsky.social #Fifewildlife #Fife
Another amazing fungus, the aptly named ‘Yellow Brain’ from a local park in north #Fife #Fifewildlife #ScottishWildlife #fungi
A good crop of fungi here at a half-frozen Gaddon Loch #fungi #Fifewildlife #winter
This morning’s roe deer. Nice to look at but can cause a lot of damage to crops and young trees. Numbers have increased a lot in recent years with up to twenty often seen on my walk around here, usually in groups of three. #deer #Fifewildlife #mammals
We’ve had a lot of rain over the last 48 hours and it’s good to see the burns full again. There’s even a bit of flooding in some of the fields but dig down a few cm and it’s bone dry. We need a lot more steady rain to reverse the effects of the summer drought #ClimateChange #Fife #drought #rainfall