Do tigers prey on newts? Here we all are at Hurlethill anyway, helping out Froglife by digging tiger traps for very tiny tigers.
Actually, they are test holes to assess how wet the ground is, and how suitable for ...
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Hedge-laying at Gartmore Primary
Last week we started a new project at Gartmore Primary School, near Aberfoyle. The project involves creating a hedge from a row of young blackthorn and hazel trees. To do this, we cut through most of the stems so we can bend ...
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Tadaaaaa!
Tadaaa indeed!
We finally finished digging out the labyrinth - the last loop was the longest and drove us most loopy!
Great day of sunshine to mark the occasion, all we need to do now is fill it....but we might take a ...
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The Boulevard by the Burn
Last Wednesday, we were again doing work for the Edinburgh City Council Natural Heritage Service, this time at Burdiehouse Burn Valley Park. The park is a corridor that follows the course of the burn as it meanders its way ...
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Meadows Yards
A couple of weeks ago, the wonderful Wednesday workers were headed off to Meadows Yard Nature reserve in Seafield. This is a somewhat indecisive site, having been a meadow, then having railway sidings built on it, before ...
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