What is new at the Visitor Centre?
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As you might know, right now, we are in the middle of our refit in the visitor centre. For me it is very interesting to see the centre change and …
Come and volunteer at Loch of the Lowes!
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Are you looking to do something totally different and highly rewarding this year? How about volunteering for Scotland’s largest charity dedicated to protecting our incredible native wildlife? There are lots of opportunities to …
Call to arms for community help to clear up Jock’s Burn in Carluke
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The Clyde Valley community are being urged to roll up their sleeves in January and February and get behind a clean up of Jock’s Burn. The Clyde and Avon Valley …
Highlights of 2016
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It’s December, time of analysis! I have been here, in Montrose, for more than nine months (my goodness, time flies) and since March I’ve seen many, many birds, some of …
Local Landscape Heroes sought in the Clyde and Avon Valley
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From farmers to millers and poets to painters, a new volunteering project, Local Landscape Heroes, will celebrate the people that have shaped the Clyde and Avon Valley. Volunteers are being …
Of wicked trees and autumnal stuff
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Traditionally Autumn is the time of the year when Montrose Basin experiences an influx of Pink-footed Geese. It is also the moment of the year when the trees turn red, …
The sound of October
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In September I was away from the visitor centre quite a lot. When I came back at the end of it, a nice surprise awaited me, the first geese had …
Help quench a thirst for Clyde Valley apple juice
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The Clyde Valley Orchards Cooperative (CVOC) are looking for people to donate unused apples from their orchards to meet demand for their increasingly popular apple juice. Crops from group members …
What’s happening at the Falls of Clyde
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Normally the season tends to quiet down after the summer holidays when all the children are back at school, but down here at the Falls of Clyde we have been …
Where has the Small Tortoiseshell gone?
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It may have come to your attention over the past few days in our national news, the plight of some of Scotland’s butterflies. After two rather wet summers our Peacock …