How to encourage bumblebees to nest in your garden
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It’s that time of year when we see lots of queen bumblebees zigzagging around the place looking for a home to build a nest. Nest sites can be roughly broken …
How far do our birds migrate?
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This week the Falls of Clyde hosted a BTO training event looking at how to identify birds by sight and sound. The presenter Scott was very enthusiastic and knowledgeable and …
How to collect birch sap and what to use it for
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It’s been a while since I’ve done a post about foraging but this week Reserves Manager for South Scotland – Steve Blow has been experimenting with collecting birch sap from …
Woodland wildflower trail and singing birds
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Walking around the reserve at this time of the year is a wonderful experience as it seems to be coming alive as the birds sing, the bees buzz and the …
A new fungi find for the Falls of Clyde and southern Scotland!
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A few weeks ago Elaine Rainey the Badgers in the Landscape Project Officer with the charity Scottish Badgers, was out on the reserve with a group of volunteers. They were …
Orca spend a day in the Clyde
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They didn’t quite make it to New Lanark, but yesterday a pod of six Orca came up the river Clyde as far as Dumbarton and remained in the area for …
Looking for newts under the cover of darkness…
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At the beginning of April I attended an Amphibian Survey Training course run by Froglife along with Darran our Assistant Ranger. We learned how to identify native amphibian species and …
Come and visit our Wildlife Garden
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Over the last few days we have seen our first Chiffchaff, Buff-tailed Bumblebee and first Butterfly of the year. The flowering Wood Anemone and Lesser Celandine is starting to form …
How does frogspawn cope with the cold weather?
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There have been a lot of enquiries about frogspawn recently with people saying they haven’t seen any this year and wondering whether the frogs may be laying later because of …
What happens to a tree when it ages?
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It is amazing to think that some of the trees alive in the UK today could have been around for thousands of years. The Fortingall Yew, which is located in …