Site of the Month: Kirkconnell Flow (July 2022)
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Kirkconnell Flow, near New Abbey, is a raised bog owned and managed as a nature reserve by NatureScot. It consists of a large expanse of peat with pine and birch woodland around the edges. On the peat dome the plant communities are …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group, Barfil Farm, 10th June 2022
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This has got to one of the top three grassland sites in the Vice-county, the others being SSSIs (The Cleugh near Dalry, Skyreburn Grasslands near Gatehouse). And it certainly lived up to that reputation, exceeding even what I’d expected. 11 …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Devils Beeftub, Sunday 5th June 2022
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The meeting was attended by four of us on a fine day. Most of the Beef Tub is owned by Borders Forest Trust as part of their Corehead property. In the last year BFT have removed grazing from the Beeftub …
Site of the Month: Knockdolian (June 2022)
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When we embarked on this series of site accounts, we promised to concentrate on sites that were under-recorded. Knockdolian, a hill in South Ayrshire, certainly fits the bill – of the 19 million records currently posted on iRecord, not a …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group, Black Loch, Colvend, 27th May 2022
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What a wonderful site! Not only for the plants and insects, but for the fact that it’s a deep kettle hole [1] and its surrounding ring of floating vegetation, called schwingmoor, which can sometimes, as here, support a person’s weight …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Crawick Multiverse, 22 May 2022
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A different kind of meeting with a focus on recording on the site of the 55 acre Crawick Multiverse. We were invited by the team running the site to undertake a botanical survey and 5 of us met in the …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Euchan Water, 5th May 2022
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Continuing the theme of visiting woodlands this early in the season 9 of us met at Blackaddie Bridge on the edge of Sanquhar with the aim of visiting the wooded parts of the Euchan Water. The Blackaddie Bridge spans the …
Site of the Month: Eglinton Country Park (May 2022)
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Eglinton Country Park at Kilwinning is a great place to go for a walk, visit the cafe, or let the kids enjoy themselves on the adventure playground, but it is also a great place to watch wildlife. Based on an 18th …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Tarras Nature Reserve, Sunday 24 April 2022
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The first field meeting of 2022 took place on the southern end of the new Community owned Tarras Valley Nature Reserve. Unlike last years visit to the open moorland north of Middlemoss farm this visit was to an area where …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group, Ravenshall Point, 8th April 2022
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Warned you all that it was difficult to get in and out of the site! Despite that, 5 of us descended the cliffs by another, “easier” route down the cliffs at the west end of the search area. On the …
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