Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Criffel – 24th September 2022
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Wow, I did wonder if I would make it to the top. And I did, accompanied by Mair and Jan. Worth it though, and hopefully so did the other 40 or so people we met on route, some of whom …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Dalry, 29th June 2025
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This meeting had been postponed because of poor weather on the date originally chosen, but this time it was a perfect sunny day! A local resident of Dalry, George Conway, had recommended that we should visit the area and we …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Dunmuck, 24th May 2025
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We visited Dunmuck by kind invitation of Laura and Alan Jones. It is a 90 acre farm on the western slopes of Criffel which their family have owned for over 50 years. There is grassland, two lochans, young broadleaved and …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Glen Isle, 23rd September 2023
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A group of eight of us met at Palnackie and then drove down the private track to the shore with the kind permission of the landowners. It was a beautiful sunny day and the views across the firth to Kippford, …
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 …
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 Ken Dee, 1st June 2024
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The RSPB Ken-Dee Marshes reserve, probably best known for its wintering populations of Greenland White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons and for its breeding Willow Tits Poecile montanus, is a complex and diverse wetland site with large areas of open water, fen, swamp …
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 …
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