May 2010 – Page 3 – ardentinny.org

May 11, 2010February 28, 2026

The Pine Marten

Dougie Menzies of Ardenfield was quick with his camera this week capturing this excellent shot of a hungry Pine Marten at the squirrel food. Iona Lister who runs an excellent website dedicated to Pine Martens informs us that she thinks it’s unusual for a Pine Marten to be moving around in open space during daylight, therefore it may be feeding young ones or else possibly there are few predators locally. Any Pine Marten experts out there who would like to comment?

Useful Links:
– Pine Marten on Wikipedia
– Pinemartin.info

If you’ve taken a great photograph in or around Ardentinny which you would like to see featured as Pic of the Week, please send it to info@ardentinny.org.

You can view past pics of the week in the photo gallery.

May 10, 2010February 28, 2026

Ardentinny to Carrick Castle walk

At the invitation of the Lochgoilhead Community Council, 29 intrepid walkers from Ardentinny walked the 7-mile route from the village to Carrick Castle on Sunday 9 May to celebrate the opening of the new forest path.

On arrival, they were treated regally to a champagne reception at Carrick Castle and then transported to Lochgoilhead for lunch in a local hotel. There Leslie Cuthbertson on behalf of the Lochgolihead community, thanked them for their participation as well as Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park for the major funding as well as Argyll & Islands Leader for the balance of the funding. Leslie went on to thank landowners Duncan McPhail and Donald Ferguson for their cooperation in allowing the use of parts of their land for the path, as well as Carrick Castle Amenities for organising the welcome reception.

In turn, Ardentinny Community Council Convener, Val Kennedy thanked the hosts for their kind hospitality and invited a reciprocal visit later in the year. It is now thought that this will take place in September with a barbecue and ceilidh after the walk.

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May 7, 2010February 28, 2026

Ardentinny to Carrick Castle walk – LIVE coverage this Sunday!

Phone signal permitting, we’ll be covering live Sunday’s community walk from Ardentinny to Carrick Castle. For those folks unable to join us, we’ll hopefully be uploading images from the 7-mile walk as it happens. We understand that there has been a great response from our community. If you would like to take part, it starts from the car park at Sandy Beach at 10 am. The newly opened route should take around two and a half hours to complete. Lunch will be available at Lochgoilhead as well as transport back to Ardentinny.

We look forward to welcoming you all on Sunday either as a participant or as a lurker at ardentinny.org!

Follow the walk via GPS & Google maps.
Hopefully you will be able to follow the walk progress via our live Google map.

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May 6, 2010February 28, 2026

Ardentinny leads by example with high voter turnout

vote1 — Ardentinny votes at Village Hall

As of 21.45 hrs. 6 May 2010. 82% of those eligible to vote today at Ardentinny’s local polling station, had cast their vote. There were another potential 40 postal votes, for which we have no cast votes statistics. It is estimated that it will be tomorrow lunchtime before we have the final results for Argyll and Bute.

May 6, 2010February 28, 2026

Ardentinny ammunition story carried by national press

Our Ardentinny ammunition story published on Wednesday has been picked up by a number of national news organisations including:

BBC Scotland, Daily Record, The Herald, London Wired News, Hamilton Advertiser, Stirling Observer, ForArgyll, Scotsman, Press & Journal, Press Association, Google News, Dumfries & Galloway Standard, WorldNews.com, Big News Network.com, Public News Network. Photographs were supplied by ardentinny.org.