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 …
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 …
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 …
Take the walks that inspired famous art in the Clyde and Avon Valleys
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Six FREE Local Landscape Hero walks, offering fascinating insight into the local landscape which inspired famous artworks, are taking place from September until November. The CAVLP Heritage Local Landscape Heroes …
Falls of Clyde Highlight of the week: Charcoal
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This week our new big project was trying to make our very own charcoal. It is a quite interesting process. The goal is to cook the wood that needs to …
Britain’s smallest bird!
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This will be my last update for the reserve as it is my last week working as a Seasonal Ranger at the Falls of Clyde. So as part of this …
Celebrate the joys of autumn at Fruit Day, Overton Farm, Saturday 7 October
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Come and join us when we will celebrate the joys of autumn at the 7th annual Fruit Day on Saturday 7 October at Overton Farm, Crossford, 9am – 1.30pm. …
Falls of Clyde Highlight of the week: Seed Collecting
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The last couple of weeks we have done some seed collecting. It is time consuming but quite important for our tree nursery. The trees that we sow in the tree …