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At HED Ltd, we are lucky to have regular sightings of red kites flying over our office on the Black Isle. Unmistakable for other raptors,...

Recently, we were lucky enough to capture an otter sprainting on along a beach. Otter spraint (excrement) is known for possessing various...

As a child who loved the outdoors, I was regularly told off by my mother for being a ‘clert’ always playing in water and mud. Clert is a...

While out for a wander on the Black Isle on a cold afternoon, I spent some time watching a flock of Turnstones foraging along a rocky...

If you’re at all claustrophobic, then you may want to think twice before entering a confined space to undertake a bat survey. Common...

As ecologists today we often find ourselves in some strange and remote places whether; under a bridge over fast flowing water on a...

Chinese New Year is celebrated from January 25th until February 8th. Also known as the Spring festival, it welcomes the end of winter...

Around our coast you’ll be able to see some of our largest seabirds and the Cormorant and Shag are among the largest. These birds are...

While surveying for otters along a riverbank, we uncovered shells of the critically endangered mollusc, freshwater pearl mussel...

We have been busy using our in house roped access, tree climbing and confined space training for a number of development schemes...

Recently we have been undertaking peat depth surveys and implementing management plans for hydro schemes across Scotland, as well as...

At HED Ltd, a large portion of the work that we do relates to badgers and how they can be affected by developments. We offer guidance to...

We have travelled to most of the larger islands around Scotland but never to Tiree. So when heading to the TMF10 (Tiree Music Fesitval 10...

This hover fly is the common ‘drone fly' (Eristalis tenax) spotted on a thistle flower. Its appearance is mimicking a honeybee drone and...

To start an exciting long weekend on the North Coast 500, we stayed in a camping pod at John o' Groats, so we could go visit some amazing...

HED Ltd have been involved in a number of different development projects this year, with more on the horizon and a busy summer ahead of...

Getting up at 1.30 am for work is not normally my idea of a fun night out but a dawn bat activity survey we carried out this week proved...

Imagine walking through the woods and then you come across a print, not just any print, a HUGE print in fact a bear print. Knowing bears,...

We’ve been spending some time at height searching for bat roosts in trees on the road network. We have been focusing on hazardous...

We rarely see the creatures we undertake surveys for as part of hydro-schemes, road and rail or housing developments. Often we rely on...