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Time Flies When You’re a Natural Talent Trainee!

December 4, 2018 by joannalindsay

Season's Greetings!  I cannot believe it's December!! The last couple of months have been so busy that I haven't even had time to write about them, so I'll back track a little and fill you in now. Getting my ID guide ...
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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: December, end, event, freshwater, green gym, ID guide, identification, last month, leaf art, Paisley Natural History Society, recording, session, showcase, snails, talk, training, workshop

September Shenanigans

October 12, 2018 by joannalindsay

The nights are fair drawing in and the months are going by faster than ever before! I feel like I've skipped September altogether and gone straight into October... Anyone out there with magic powers to slow down time? No... ...
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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Big Green Weekend, BioBlitz, buglife, foraging, freshwater, ID guide, identification, marvellous mud snails, National Museums Scotland, Natural Talent 2018, photography, pond-dipping, sea buckthorn, snails, TCV

And now, for something completely different…

August 31, 2018 by joannalindsay

At the beginning of August, I took a spur of the moment decision to go on an adventure down south for a week-long wild skills course at FSC Preston Montford. The course was being run as part of a collaborative ‘Growing ...
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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Biodiversity, birds, canoeing, Citizen Science, conservation, fire making, FSC, insects, mammals, moth trapping, Preston Montford, training, wild skills, wood work

Snails, celebrities and lots, lots more…

August 16, 2018 by joannalindsay

Apologies for the rather late blog this time round, every time I tried to do this something else just got in the way! But hey, better late than never, right? July got off to a ‘wild’ start as I attended my first event of ...
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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: BioBlitz, bug hunting, BuglifeScotland, chris packham, conservation, dragonflies, events, hoverflies, pollinators, pond mud snail, pond-dipping, RSPB, surveys, training, workshops

Here, there and everywhere… June update from Buglife!

June 27, 2018 by joannalindsay

  Hello again! Another busy month has flown by. The article I wrote for New Nature magazine has been published in this month’s edition; now FREE to download on their website! I urge you to go and check it out, ...
Continue reading Here, there and everywhere… June update from Buglife!

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: article, bug hunting, BuglifeScotland, Entomology, freshwater, gathering, identification, inchcailloch, lacewings, loch lomond, MarvellousMudSnails, moths, national insect week, Natural Talent 2018, nature writing, new nature, rowardennan, SCENE, SEG, snails

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