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October 2025: Tree-cutting and other work at the Loch Quien Bird Hide

October 2025: Tree-cutting and other work at the Loch Quien Bird Hide

by | Oct 22, 2025 | News

With a full turnout of our Bute Conservation Volunteers we cleared the overgrown approach to the hide, replaced worn screening by planting willow, repaired the entrance walkway and (last but not least) cut an overhanging tree branch that was threatening to cause damage to the roof. Pictured are Billy Shields in action on the roof plus one of some of the volunteers inside the Hide after completing all the work.
 

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July 2025: Installing new map and information board frame at the Black Park, Kingarth. 

July 2025: Installing new map and information board frame at the Black Park, Kingarth. 

by | Jul 4, 2025 | News

Billy is often behind the camera taking the pictures but in this one he’s seen putting the finishing touches to our replacement frame for the map and information board – as well as having made the new frame. It’s at the popular ancient stone ‘circle’ at the Black Park. It seems that, after sitting quietly near the standing stones for about 20 years, someone recently reversed a vehicle into the old one, breaking both its ‘legs’. 
June 2025: Interpretation Panel now added to the bridge at Cairnbaan

June 2025: Interpretation Panel now added to the bridge at Cairnbaan

by | Jun 28, 2025 | News

 
During the Neolithic Period (approx 4500 – 2200 B.C.) communities constructed chambered cairns for the burial of the dead. Grave goods were often deposited with the dead in order to help them in the afterlife. There are several well-preserved Neolithic tombs on Bute. Cairnbaan (the white cairn on account of the many white quartz boulders) in Lenihuline Wood stretches for 30 metres with stone chambers at the top and bottom of the cairn. Pictured are: a new Interpretation Panel on the bridge over to the cairn; our volunteers clearing the access around the lower end of the cairn; and the volunteer team taking a break.

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June 2025: Adding a step to the footbridge at the Wee Bay

June 2025: Adding a step to the footbridge at the Wee Bay

by | Jun 19, 2025 | News

The bridge over the Mill Burn at Kilchattan Bay was replaced only a few years ago. The bridge is fine but sand erosion had created a drop at one end. Our Bute Conservation Trust volunteers were out today to construct a new step to make life easier for walkers using this popular bridge. (Pictured by the newly created step is Jock taking a well-deserved rest after a lot of sawing and hammering!)
 
 
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