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 …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group, Fellcroft Loch, 15th July 2022
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Fellcroft Loch falls completely within one monad which is very handy for recording. The slopes below Suie Hill would probably warrant further investigation but the loch and its immediate border provided plenty of interest for one day. Eight of us …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group, Grey Mare’s Tail and Burn, Talnotry 29/03/2019
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Four sites for Wilson’s Filmy Fern Hymenophyllum wilsonii are known for this burn from around the 1980s and the intention was to re-locate the populations. 10 of us met at the base of the waterfall just off the main road in …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group, Ken-Dee Marshes, 06/04/2019
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A bright sunny day welcomed 10 of us to the RSPB’s Ken-Dee Marshes SSSI, with singing Chiffchaffs and, later on, a Willow Warbler’s sibilant trill to herald the spring. First the stats. We covered 3 monads on the west bank …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group, Kenmure Holms and castle, 18/05/2019
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The theme for the day was to try to relocate three species, the nationally scarce Elongated Sedge Carex elongata, and the locally scarce Purple Iris Iris versicolor and Wood Small-reed Calamagrostis canescens, the last at its only VC site. However …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group, Loch Ken 12/04/2019
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Loch Ken 12th April 2019 This meeting was unusual in that it was just a half-day, despite which there were 10 of us attempting to find the aquatic fern, Pillwort Pilularia pilulifera. But before we even got started, Zoë produced …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group, Lochrutton 4 September 2019
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The weather was again kind to us with sunshine and no rain, although it wasn’t that warm. 9 of us turned up and walked from the minor road to the tower intake of the loch/reservoir. During the course of the …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group, Mabie Forest 1 June 2019
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The field meetings this year just get better and better with rare or scarce plants recorded – the Nationally Scarce Carex elongata last meeting, and now this is surpassed and was enjoyed by 7 of us. Even the weather was …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group, Ravenshall Point, 8th April 2022
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Warned you all that it was difficult to get in and out of the site! Despite that, 5 of us descended the cliffs by another, “easier” route down the cliffs at the west end of the search area. On the …
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