SWSEIC Recording Group at Moffat nature reserves, 19th May 2025
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The wildlife recording day at Moffat Community Nature Reserve and Dyke Farm Nature Reserve where well attended with eight recorders coming to help us find things on the day. All together we recorded 291 species. As usual we started with …
SWSEIC Recording Group at Port Logan, 11 May 2024
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Our second SWSEIC recorders day of 2024 was held at Port Logan where we were greeted by wonderfully sunny weather. Nine recorders came to lend us their expertise on the day. Overall, we recorded 308 species over the two 1km …
SWSEIC Recording Group at Ayr Gorge, 24th April 2024
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The SWSEIC recording group’s first survey day of the year was held at SWT Ayr Gorge Woodland on 24 April 2024. We were blessed with glorious weather and we welcomed by five experienced attendees bringing their own expertise and knowledge …
Site of the Month: Wigtown Bay (February 2023)
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Wigtown Bay is the estuary of the River Cree and the River Bladnoch. It consists of extensive areas of saltmarsh and mudflats, which are best known for large wintering flocks of wildfowl and waders, but is also important for salt tolerant plants and for …
Lynx in Galloway in the Eighteenth Century?
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This blog is written in response to a recent paper by Lee Raye of the Open University and published in Mammal Communications, the journal of The Mammal Society, which describes potentially ‘reliable’ evidence that Eurasian Lynx Lynx lynx may have been present …
Smarter wildlife recording
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It hasn’t taken long for wildlife recording to embrace the power of the smartphone technology at our finger tips. Visit the android or apple app stores and you will find hundreds of wildlife related apps; this article will help you …
SWSEIC and iNaturalist
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iNaturalist is a global wildlife recording website and app. It has particularly been gaining in popularity, particularly amongst less experienced recorders due to the helpful community and rich features of the site. It is used for the international City Nature …
Provisional list of Ayrshire beetles published
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Local beetle enthusiast Bruce Philp has spent lockdown very productively by pulling together a provision beetle list for Ayrshire (VC75), The list is available to download here – VC75 Ayrshire coleoptera checklist v1 Beetles include some families which are very tricky …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at River Nith, Closeburn, 6th September 2020
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On a fine sunny day following government guidelines six of us met from 4 households, with no car sharing allowed between households. Ranald using local knowledge had suggested where cars could be parked and we met by the water treatment …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Barr and Wauk Hill, 20th August 2020
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On a windy and showery day following government guidelines six of us met from 5 households, with no car sharing allowed between households. Ranald had arranged access for us which was kindly granted by Robert Gladstone with parking opposite Barr …
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