Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Killiegowan Wood, 20th April 2024
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A group of twelve of us visited this woodland with the kind permission of the landowners and with David Hawker’s help in making the arrangements for us. It is a beautiful upland Oak-Birch woodland and we saw it on a …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Kippford, 19/06/2018
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At the invitation of the Kippford Community, we were invited to do a botanical survey of their newly acquired ground, 48 acres or thereabouts, on the outskirts of the village. So 8 of us and 5 members of the Kippford …
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 Kippford, 4th May 2024
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A group of 11 of us met at the car park by the Kippford Community Hall on a rather grey morning, but we were lucky that the dry weather held out until after lunch. Our exploration of two monads fell …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Kirkbean Glen – 27th August 2022
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Six of us turned out and had an excellent day which went beyond all expectations. This glen is a gorge within deciduous woodland, parts of the burn being contained within very steep slopes and rock outcrops. It was notable in July …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Kirkbean Glen, 19th July 2023
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We were lucky enough to have two members of the British Pteridological Society join us for the day: Alison Evans and Roger Golding. Alison is studying the Dryopteris affinis group for a PhD and both she and Roger had been …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Kirkconnell Flow, 05/05/2017
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The good weather continues! Nine of us turned out to explore this great example of a raised bog which is surrounded by both birch and pine woodland. It’s part of the large area containing raised bogs both east and west …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Kirkconnell Merse, 4th August 2022
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The southern half of the merse, part of the site managed by RSPB, has not been grazed recently and we surveyed much of the site with RSPB personnel in attendance. In all, 12 of use covered two of the four …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Knockbrex and Barlocco, 8th June 2024
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As we gathered, a Lesser Whitethroat Curruca curruca was rattling in the scrub nearby, the first of the year for most of us and a great start to the day. Our aim was to record the single monad NX5849 which …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Loch Urr, 25/08/2017
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On the previous visit in September 2016, we’d got washed out by rain after 2 hours then – sound familiar to those who came this time? I promised a return to the site to cover ground that we didn’t cover …
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