Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Torrs Moss, 5th July 2023
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These two sites, together with a number of others in the Castle Douglas area, are of particular significance for their fen vegetation which demonstrates similarities with sites in the Borders, Anglesey and Norfolk. Other sites in the area which share …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Trostrie Motte Farm, 5th July 2024
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A group of 10 of us assembled at Trostrie Motte Farm by kind permission of the owners. The part of the farm that we particularly wanted to survey was the low-lying basin containing the loch, together with the adjacent areas …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Windy Standard, 20th August 2023
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This meeting took place with the kind permission of Natural Power and the landowner, enabling us to drive up their track to the summit, saving both time and an arduous walk. The planned date of Saturday 19th August had to …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Wood of Cree, 08/04/2017
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Another glorious day for the 10 of us, bright, sunny and warm. As is usual we spent the first half hour only metres from the cars, recording the plants in the grassland including a single and magnificent flowering fritillary Fritillaria …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Wood of Cree, 9th June 2023
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Our meeting was held at the kind invitation of RSPB. The main objective of the day was to count the clumps of Elongated Sedge Carex elongata (also known as Gingerbread Sedge). This is a scarce species of which the Wood …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group meeting – Mersehead
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KBG meeting at the RSPB reserve at Mersehead. Meet at the RSPB car park (NX925562) signposted off the A710 near Caulkerbush (the Dumfries-Sandyhills coastal road). Usual time 10 am, lunch and walking shoes, possibly wellies if we get to …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group, Barfil Farm, 10th June 2022
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This has got to one of the top three grassland sites in the Vice-county, the others being SSSIs (The Cleugh near Dalry, Skyreburn Grasslands near Gatehouse). And it certainly lived up to that reputation, exceeding even what I’d expected. 11 …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group, Benshinnie and Pattiesthorn High Loch, 5th October 2019
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Will it, won’t it? Rain morning (BBC)? or afternoon (Accuweather)? or evening (ITV)? In the event it held off till we got back to the cars mid-afternoon. First a march along forest roads, stopping periodically to explore disused road stone …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group, Black Loch, Colvend, 27th May 2022
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What a wonderful site! Not only for the plants and insects, but for the fact that it’s a deep kettle hole [1] and its surrounding ring of floating vegetation, called schwingmoor, which can sometimes, as here, support a person’s weight …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group, Fell Quarries and Kirkmabreck Church, 20th September 2019
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Fine weather greeted us for this the penultimate meeting of 2019. Six of us drove up a tiny, steeply uphill road to the quarry site which sits above the obvious (from the A75) Creetown quarry. There were 4 deep quarry …
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