Information Boards at Littleferry

Well done to the rangers at NatureScot for this simple but inexpensive idea, a series of small information boards about pollinators on a short circuit around the links at Littleferry, starting at the main car park. They've managed to site them....

....in a variety of habitats so, in theory at least, as people go round they'll see different pollinator species. This one was even sited right next to an example of its subject, ragwort.

The information is good, too. The board about gorse had several tidbits of information which were new to me.

I'm hoping they'll take this a step further by changing the boards with the seasons. Boards about pollinators aren't going to seem very relevant in the depths of a wintery January.

On the subject of pollinators, here are some of them at work at Littleferry. If I have my identification right, they go by the lovely name of marmalade hoverflies, Episyrphus balteatus.