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Megan Rowland

@Wayfaringhind

Crofter, deer stalker, mum, writer, cook. @LantraScotland Industry Champion. Deer Mgmt Officer @nature_scot. ADHD. Learning 🇳🇴 Views mine.

 Scottish Highlands
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Joined February 2011
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As H. L. Mencken said "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong." Land management involves vast, multi-varient, multi-temporal systems. One stop, tabloid solutions are, to use the correct terminology, hooey. #ShowMeDontTellMe
A view out over a loch, cut down forestry, standing forestry, old sheep fencing, wind turbines, and hill ground

ALT A view out over a loch, cut down forestry, standing forestry, old sheep fencing, wind turbines, and hill ground

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Anyone have any info on why the speed limits in Golspie and Brora changed to 20mph for a handful of days and are now back up to 30mph?
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A baby 🥰 Hopefully they continue to hang out in the polytunnel and keep the slugs and bugs in check 🙏🤞 (Only handled as they were chilling out beneath a plant pot and I needed to move them somewhere safer out of the way).
A baby slow worm (a type of legless lizard) sits in the palm of a hand

ALT A baby slow worm (a type of legless lizard) sits in the palm of a hand

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Looks like a bus broken down on the A9 south bound carriageway, south of Brora. Just over the brow of the hill before Carn Liath. @trafficscotland
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Great wee read - we're really lucky to have @ClynelishFarm next door 😊 Not everyone gets to have such switched on and forward thinking neighbours! 🙌
Edinvale Farm 🌱🐂 (@EdinvaleFarm) profile pictureEdinvale Farm 🌱🐂@EdinvaleFarm19 May 2023
Awesome article @ClynelishFarm. Especially like the last comment and probably need to tattoo it on my arm next to my watch!
Image from Edinvale Farm 🌱🐂 (@EdinvaleFarm)
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#GratulererMedDagen 🇳🇴
In the foreground a farm house and shed, a ploughed field is in the centre, further down the hill is another farm house, in the distance there is a fjord. The Norwegian flag flies from a flagpole in front of the house. The sky is blue with some wispy clouds.

ALT In the foreground a farm house and shed, a ploughed field is in the centre, further down the hill is another farm house, in the distance there is a fjord. The Norwegian flag flies from a flagpole in front of the house. The sky is blue with some wispy clouds.

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Super interesting chat yesterday with wildlife management folks in @miljodir in Trondheim. Long story short, Norway isn't the panacea of deer management it's made out to be back in Scotland. Lots of shared problems and opportunities for collaboration and knowledge exchange.
A tall building sits on the quayside in Trondheim. The sky behind is a clear blue.

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Ferry envy strikes again.
A car ferry sails up a fjord

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Nice day for it. 🇳🇴🏞
The sun is shining in a clear sky above a fjord. The hills are topped with snow.

ALT The sun is shining in a clear sky above a fjord. The hills are topped with snow.

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It's only when you experience a working ferry service that it becomes fully clear what a shambles we have back home. Like wow. I mean, you know it's bad, but when it's apparent how good it could be, it's really irritating.
Image from Megan Rowland (@Wayfaringhind)
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Hei hei Norge... Det er flott å være tilbake 😁
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Loving the 'temporary road surface' signs that have cropped up at Skiach in the last wee while. As if the road surface hasn't been in an shambolic and worsening state for the last couple of years. 🙄
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Geoffrey Miller (@gmiller) profile pictureGeoffrey Miller
@gmiller22 Apr 2023
Name a topic where about 90% of people have no idea what they're talking about historically, theoretically, or empirically, but about 90% of people have very strong views about the topic morally & emotionally.
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Worthwhile watching this video from Ivan Carter about the closing of John Hume's rhino project in South Africa. Without people like John and the enormous personal investment they put into species conservation, we will say goodbye to rhinos forever. youtu.be/7ZJ83sZF5h4
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Have you seen this @AdamHartScience?
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Tourist season well and truly underway in Dornoch.
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Girls Night 💃🏻
Two black dogs sit on snow in a snowy forest clearing

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Hey north Highland folks... If you're around Tain or Dornoch this weekend check out the pop up shops that Highland Patissier is running. Her cakes are amazing, a real treat, and as a small business it's well worth supporting the them in these times 🥧🍫🧁🍰🍩🎂
A notice saying Upcoming Pop Up Shops. February 17 Dornoch 10am - 2pm, Dornoch Hub, 1 Argyle Street. And February 18 Tain 1pm - 5pm, 12 Tower Street"

ALT A notice saying Upcoming Pop Up Shops. February 17 Dornoch 10am - 2pm, Dornoch Hub, 1 Argyle Street. And February 18 Tain 1pm - 5pm, 12 Tower Street"

A display of a menu of cakes: lemon meringue, key lime tart, passion fruit tart, raspberry macaron, biscoff tart, cheesecake, pistachio tart, banoffee pie, chocolate mousse, and rocher mousse

ALT A display of a menu of cakes: lemon meringue, key lime tart, passion fruit tart, raspberry macaron, biscoff tart, cheesecake, pistachio tart, banoffee pie, chocolate mousse, and rocher mousse

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Had the healthcare visitor round for a routine check on the wee one. Turns out I won't be seeing them again as they're leaving the job, as is the other HV, and there's apparently no current drive to recruit. So that will be no HV'S in all of Sutherland for an undefined period.
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For info, for the international audience, this is what is now classed as plague proportions of our native (herding) ungulates in Scotland. For gods sake no one share pictures of Saiga antelope, elk or reindeer herds.
Gus Routledge (@PinkfootedGus) profile pictureGus Routledge@PinkfootedGus2 Feb 2023
Deer, oh deer, oh deer.
Image from Gus Routledge (@PinkfootedGus)
Image from Gus Routledge (@PinkfootedGus)
Image from Gus Routledge (@PinkfootedGus)
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Anyone? Any ideas at all? It's no wonder we've got a problem in the UK with kids getting outdoors into nature when it's hard/uncomfortable for already nature interested mums to get out and about early on with the wee ones. "The hand that rocks the cradle", etc., etc....
Megan Rowland (@Wayfaringhind) profile pictureMegan Rowland@Wayfaringhind26 Jan 2023
Hey Twitter, any suggestions for merino or wool baselayer tops for breastfeeding? I hate having to get half undressed to feed the wee one while I'm out and about 🥶🤱
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(And yes, twitter disclaimer, I'm generalising because the balance is that most child rearing in the UK is still done by mums, even moreso since covid kicked off. I know there are exceptions to the rule.)
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