Sanday Community Website

A compilation of Ranger reports can be found here:
Ranger News January to March

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camera in hand.

As usual, Rod Thorne was in the lead but added value came in the form of photographic instruction from local artist, Dominique Cameron.

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Last week, on 14th March, George Peace was hauling creels when he saw the freshly-dead carcase of a Porpoise floating close to his boat, the ‘Loch Roag’. The animal was quite small, just over a metre long and weighing only 14 kilograms, and there was no sign of external wounding.
Bob Reid, a vet, in Inverness [...]

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The Sanday Ranger events for Summer 2009 are now finalised and a copy of the OCEAN Calendar entries for Sanday may be downloaded here in PDF format.
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Rod Thorne has written up some of his recent Ranger Events:

June 2nd: Start Point – Oysterplant; Grottie-buckies;Tysties; Dunters, and much, much more
June 4th: West Side – Enhancing International relationships at a beach picnic among the seabirds
June 8th: Papay Excursion – Historic buildings; birds; and a glimpse of the rare Primula scotica

All with the usual excellent [...]

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