Scotland adventures (day 6) – Burns-ish night.

Hello Internet! We had a lie in! I never thought I’d see the day where 7:30 was a lie in! This morning consisted of totally packing up the room, cleaning up after last nights festivities and then all piling back in the van for the journey back to the Cairngorms...

Scotland adventures (day 5) – spotlight stealer

Hello Internet! After an early start the 25 of us were piled into a small ferry (in two loads) and headed over to Handa Island, a Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve. It was very idyllic, we pulled into a little bay and some volunteers wheeled a walkway out to us so we...

Scotland adventures (day 3) – oh deer!

Hello Internet! Today has most definitely been an insight into how biology works (or doesn’t) in the field!    We all set off to do our mini projects for the trip. Our group decided to look at vigilance in red deer – whether increasing group size meant...