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Protected Species Training for 2011!
22 March 2011Stuart Spray Wildlife Consultancy is currently taking bookings for a variety of Protected Species Training courses in May and June 2011. The courses, based in SW Scotland, are aimed at anyone interested in mammals, including amateur naturalists, envi...
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Stuart Spray Wildlife Consultancy launches on-line shop
01 August 2010August 2010 saw the launch of Stuart Spray Wildlife Consultancy's on-line shop.
Products currently available on-line are targeted at mitigation for bats, barn owls and badgers. However, over the coming months the range will be expanded t...
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SSWC teams up with Geo-rope Ltd to provide protected species surveys of bridges, viaducts, buildings, cliffs, trees and other high structures throughout the UK
06 July 2010Following Stuart Spray successfully completing his Level 1 IRATA Rope Access Technician assessment, Stuart Spray Wildlife Consultancy has officially teamed up with Geo-rope Ltd to provide protected species surveys of bridges, viaducts, buildings, cli...
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SSWC assists with important red kite monitoring in Central Scotland.
20 June 2010The great weather we have all been enjoying over the past few months has also been good news for local wildlife with encouraging numbers of nesting red kite reported throughout Scotland this summer.
In June 2010 Stuart Spray Wildlife Co...
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Earlstoun Castle Restoration Project gets underway
01 March 2010Earlstoun and Sanquhar Trust are working in partnership with The Vivat Trust and Historic Scotland to restore Earlstoun Castle, a late sixteenth/early seventeenth century L-plan tower-house located in the rolling hills of Dumfries and Galloway just o...
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Bats return to out-house after two years!
07 July 2009Clair McFarlan and Michael Leybourne last week (June 30 2009) contacted Stuart Spray Wildlife Consultancy to report that bats had returned to their converted out-house and were now roosting in the specially created cavities above one of the wall head...
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Stuart Spray and Chris Catherine have paper published outlining best practice for surveying and monitoring windfarms in the UK!
13 June 2009Stuart Spray and Chris Catherine, Senior Ecologist with RPS Planning and Development, have recently had a paper outlining best practice for surveying and monitoring bats at on-shore windfarms in the UK.
The paper was published in the Jun...
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Barn owls set for a bumper year at Dundrennan MOD Training Range near Kirkcudbright
17 March 2009Dundrennan MOD Training Range near Kirckudbright in Dumfries and Galloway is a haven for many species of wildlife including badgers, bats and barn owls.
However, site managers had recently were that some of the buildings which were bein...
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