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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More tasks around Muiravonside
Last week the midweek groups again worked at Muiravonside Country Park near falkirk, where we did some clearing of footpaths and the old favourite, cutting and burning Rhododendron, which we did on the both the Wednesday and ...
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Toads Go Over The Top
This week the Glasgow Group worked with Froglife to enlarge an amphibian pond at Mansewood Allotments on the southside of Glasgow. The allotment holders have set aside a vacant plot as wildlife plot, and a hibernaculum had ...
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Unearthing the past
On Sunday 2 September the Glasgow Group were at Kilmahew Estate at Cardross, finishing off some path clearance work. The original Victorian paths and tracks on the estate have been covered with decades of leaf-mulch and ...
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