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 …
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 …
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