Introduction to Rocky Shore Ecology, Fairlie
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The Where’s Wildlife in Ayrshire? Project is excited to be working in partnership with the Capturing our Coast Scotland (CoCoast) project to provide this informal 1 day workshop. No previous experience in ecology or wildlife recording is necessary – just a keen …
Introduction to Wonderful Wildflowers, Beith
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The Where’s Wildlife in Ayrshire? Project is excited to be working in partnership with the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) and the Beith Community Development Trust to provide this informal 1 day workshop. No previous experience in wildflowers/ botany or …
Marvellous Mammals, Auchincruive
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The Where’s Wildlife in Ayrshire? Project is excited to be working in partnership with The Wildlife Information Centre (TWIC) to run this event. During our workshop we will have both classroom and field sessions to look at some of the …
Introduction to Wildlife Recording, Auchincruive
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Interested in wildlife recording but not sure where to start? Come along to one of Where Wildlife in Ayrshire Introduction Wildlife Recording courses! This informal course will provide an introduction to the importance of wildlife recording and the use of species records …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Newbie, 08/04/2018
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Three brave folk met at Newbie shore in a stiff wind on Wednesday morning. The day improved and by the end of the afternoon the promised warm weather had finally arrived. High tide was at about 14:00 and so by …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Hollows, Langholm 28/03/2018
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The first meeting of our new Dumfriesshire Botany Group was held on Wednesday 28th March when 6 of us gathered at Gilnockie Bridge, Hollows on the river Esk south of Langholm. This was an early meeting and given the long …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at High Wood, New Galloway 06/04/2018
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This was to be the second filmy fern hunt for VC73, on a day forecast to be dry at first, then very windy and eventually rainy. As fortune had it we were in the café towards the end of the …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Glentrool, 29/03/2018
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The first visit of the season, hoping for Wilson’s Filmy Fern Hymenophyllum wilsonii before the explosion of vegetation made it difficult to find this tiny fern. To aid us, the weather has been un-spring like for weeks now and is …
A million records and counting…
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Earlier this week SWSEIC reached a major milestone by adding our one millionth record to our database. The record of a Redshank on Loch Ryan was part of the county bird records for 2017. When the Centre was established in …
New Dumfriesshire Botany Group created
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A new botany group – the Dumfriesshire Botany Group – has now been established in the eastern part of Dumfries and Galloway. The group will cover the vice-county of Dumfriesshire – which includes most of Nithsdale, Annandale and Eskdale – and …
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