KBG Field Meeting
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Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group meeting at Trolane/Ardoch NX6381, NX6382 and NX6383. For further information, please contact kirkcudbrightbotanygroup@gmail.com.
KBG Field Meeting
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Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group meeting at Heart Moss NX7647 and NX7648. For further information, please contact kirkcudbrightbotanygroup@gmail.com.
KBG Field Meeting
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Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group meeting at Dunmuck NX9258. For further information, please contact kirkcudbrightbotanygroup@gmail.com.
KBG Field Meeting
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Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group meeting at Kirkdale NX5152 and NX5053. For further information, please contact kirkcudbrightbotanygroup@gmail.com.
KBG Field Meeting
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Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group meeting at Gallowleck Plantation NX8456. For further information, please contact kirkcudbrightbotanygroup@gmail.com.
Species of the Month: Common Frog Rana temporaria (March 2025)
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The Common Frog Rana temporaria has been emerging from brumation and as many will have noticed begun to spawn. Our only resident for species of frog, the Common Frog, is easy to identify as having slippery smooth skin and very long back …
Species of the Month: Twenty Plume Moth Alucita hexadactyla (February 2025)
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The Twenty Plume Moth Alucita hexadactyla is one of our most unique looking moths. It measures around 15mm across in its fanned resting position, and despite its name it does in fact have 24 ‘plumes’. The caterpillars feed on the leaves and buds …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Kippford, 29th December 2024 (New Year Plant Hunt)
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The stormy weather meant that we had to rearrange the meeting at short notice, and despite the forecast promising a dry day and even some sunshine, it was disappointingly damp and drizzly. Nevertheless, an enthusiastic group of nine of us …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Rascarrel and Loch Mackie, 7th September 2024
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After a prolonged wet spell, sunshine arrived at last with a very warm day for our last meeting of the summer. Nine of us met for a walk through the forestry to Loch Mackie and Rascarrel Bay beyond. We were …
Species of the Month: Wigeon Mareca penelope (January 2025)
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The Wigeon Mareca penelope is a familiar duck that winters in the UK in important numbers. Most of these birds travel from Iceland, Scandinavia and Russia, and numbers usually peak in December and January. A small breeding population does exist in isolated well-vegetated …
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