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As June comes to an end, I’m busy finishing off my 30 Days Wild – the annual challenge set by the Trust to complete one random act of wildness for…
This week is Bees’ Needs Week. To mark the occasion, seasonal ranger Patrick Endall takes a closer look at one of Falls of Clyde’s newer residents: the tree bumblebee. …
…celebrating 50 years of managing a very special habitat, but we are also celebrating 50 years of ospreys on the reserve. I’d like to take you on a trip through…
…geese on the reserve. These UK resident goose species do tend to move across the country as breeding season comes to an end, but in Montrose, it’s the arrival of…
…sown. Extracting seeds from the alder cones is a much simpler process. A bit of shaking in a Tupperware container helps the seeds get loose (I recommend putting some music…
…build and long, broad wings enable agile flight. Their feet are webbed and equipped with strong, hooked claws at the end of each toe and its large curved beak is…
…we imagined the little egglet scraping away under the surface, using its egg-tooth – only to then hit a second layer of shell. This could have been quite the endurance…
…crossed that the third chick will emerge soon.” Ospreys chicks need to develop rapidly before taking flight and migrating south at the end of summer. The chick’s parents will have…
…of the reserve. Other sightings, like the hoopoe and glossy ibis, depend on prevailing wind patterns or individual birds misreading their migration clues to end up so far from their…
