Day 3 Skellister and Muckle Ayre

We stopped off at a small area of protected native woodland near Catfirth on the way to our recording site.

Native trees on the banks of the burn at Catfirth

Native Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia)

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Hieracium spp. growing on rocky edge of the burn

Devil's-bit Scabious (Succisa pratensis)

We recorded in two monads, the first included some heathland on the Hill of Skellister (100m), we then walked down the hill to the coast at Muckle Ayre for lunch by the sea. In the afternoon we recorded in an adjacent monad walking along roads and tracks around the village of Skellister.

Muckle Ayre on the East Coast of mainland Shetland

Team work with me doing the identification and Helen recording

Photo: S. Edwards

One of the many different species of
 Eyebrights (Euphrasia spp.) on Shetland

Photo: S. Edward

 Grass-of-Parnassus (Parnassia palustris) 

growing in abundance at the side
 of a grassy track

Flower of Field Gentian 
(Gentianella campestris)

Field Gentian (Gentianella campestris) 

growing on a roadside verge

Marsh Ragwort and Monkey-flower growing along the ditches

Marsh Ragwort (Senecio aquaticus)

Botanical highlights: Gentianella campestris,Vaccinium myrtillus, Dactylorhiza purpurella  and Parnassia palustris

Non-botanical highlight:  Grey seals watching us as we ate our lunch