Falls of Clyde highlight of the week: Snowberry
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Tuesday is spend with volunteers every week.The volunteers help us with all the maintenance that is needed and they help us from 10am – 2pm, which is really awesome and …
Looking for redwings
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Whenever I take the bus into work, I always enjoy my walk down The Beeches from Lanark to the Falls of Clyde office in New Lanark. The narrow lane down …
Falls of Clyde Highlight of the week: Halloween
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This weekend the Clyde room has been filled with kids since Friday evening. We’ve had 6 events over the last 3 days. One Friday, three Saturday and two Sunday. All …
Six things to do this autumn
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Autumn is a wonderful time of year to be outside exploring in the woods, once all the leaves begin to drop off the trees you begin to see all sorts …
Falls of Clyde Highlight of the Week: Mice in the office
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Last week was my holiday and when I came back this week, Laura Preston, our Ranger, had had mice running all over her desk. The paw prints were very clear. …
Clyde Valley Woodlands National Nature Reserve is 10 years old
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The Clyde Valley Woodlands National Nature Reserve is ten years old this year and one of only 41 National Nature Reserves (NNRs) in Scotland. It is also the only composite …
Protect yourself this Halloween – Plant a rowan tree
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As Halloween approaches, I thought we might all need a little protection from all those ghosts, witches and evil spirits that lurk at this time of year don’t you think! …
Falls of Clyde Highlight of the week: Mushrooms
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Mushroom season has begun. In general this has been a good year for foraging mushrooms since it has been very wet – the kind of weather the fungi loves. I …
Let’s show a bit more respect to fungi!
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It seems we have been brought up in a world where it is deemed acceptable to stomp on fungi. In doing so we are destroying these fruiting bodies of the …
Falls of Clyde Highlight of the week: Geocaching
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The best thing that happened this week was putting out a Geocache. I’ve been Geocaching for a couple of years now and I think it is a fun way to …