Kilsture Reptile & Amphibian Day
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If you are interested in coming along please email Elaine Rainey at kilsture1000@kilstureforest.org.
Kirkcudbright Botany Group, Stroanfreggan and Culmark Moss 24th August 2019
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This meeting was to replace one scheduled here last year but cancelled following days of very heavy rainfall and the threat of flooding. But this time we were in luck as the weather was fine. Seven of us met at …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Auchencairn, 25th March 2023
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The first meeting of the spring took place at Torr Farm Auchencairn by kind permission of Lee Paton. We were indeed very fortunate to be able to use her barn for our meeting as it turned out to be a …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Auchenreoch Loch 24/05/2018
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Just three of us, in brilliant and very warm weather, covered one monad (NX8171) along the lochside very thoroughly and another (NX8271) not so thoroughly, also along the lochside. In the first we got 153 species and in the second …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Balloch Wood, 20th May 2023
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The Balloch Wood Community Project is a charity which was set up in 2016 to manage this woodland for the benefit of the local community. A 25-year management agreement with the Forestry Commission was put together at that time and …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Barlocco Bay, 3rd August 2024
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Nine of us assembled for the 10-minute walk down to the bay – which took us the best part of two and a half hours! No wonder, as we passed through semi-natural woodland and semi-improved grassland before reaching the spoil …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Brighouse Bay, 17th May 2024
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Those of us who arrived a little early took the opportunity first to check out the Perennial Flax Linum perenne in the dunes at the back of the beach. We had feared that it might not be in flower yet, …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Carlingwark Loch, 17th June 2023
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Those who arrived early were tempted to wander along the loch shore from the car park and were delighted to see abundant flowering Cowbane Cicuta virosa amongst the Reed Sweet-grass Glyceria maxima in the marginal vegetation. When everyone had arrived, …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Castle Douglas, 2nd January 2023
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There was frost still on the ground when a group of seven of us met by Carlingwark Loch in Castle Douglas. However it turned into a beautiful sunny morning and we felt extremely fortunate, as all the previous days had …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Clints of Dromore, Cairnsmore NNR, 31st/08/2018
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This was a lovely warm sunny day for 7 of us to explore a crag section on the edge of the Cairnsmore of Fleet National Nature Reserve, a site last visited some 20 years ago. The first section along the …
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