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Being a Volunteer Student Naturalist: Amelia Jenkin’s Placement Year at the Natural History Society of Northumbria (2024-25)
As my time at NHSN comes to a close, I have spent a lot of time reflecting on what I…
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From Nature-Lover to Naturalist: Lekshmi Vijay’s Placement Year with the Natural History Society of Northumbria (2024-25)
When I started my placement year as a Student Naturalist with the Natural History Society of Northumbria (NHSN), I knew…
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Walking the Ouse Burn Part 5: ‘A Great Park Surprise!’
The latest instalment of the ‘Walking the Ouse Burn’ series took me to Great Park – my first visit to…
Birds | Botany | Great Park | Invertebrates | Ornithology | Ouse Burn | Ouseburn | The Ouse Burn Way | Walking
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Getting Started with Grasses: Woodland Grasses
Discover the common grass species associated with the North East’s woodlands and start identifying your own in the second instalment of a new series of blogs by NHSN Senior Naturalist, James Common….
Botany | Grass ID | Grasses | James Common
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Gosforth Nature Reserve Journal: Dragonfly Emergence
In this month’s Gosforth Nature Reserve Journal, NHSN naturalist, Christopher Wren, shares experiencing the emergence of a dragonfly from the shell of the nymph…
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Getting Started with Grasses: Meadows and Neutral Grassland
Discover the common grass species associated with neutral grassland and start identifying your own with NHSN Senior Naturalist, James Common….
Botany | Grass ID | Grasses | James Common
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NHSN Field Skills – Bees at Gosforth Nature Reserve
NHSN Field Skills participant, Neha Mujumdar, shares a short account of an exciting trip to Gosforth Nature Reserve With support…
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Getting Started with Grasses: Waysides and Rough Ground
Discover the common and widespread grasses of North East England and start identifying your own in a new series of…
Botany | Grass ID | Grasses | James Common
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Gosforth Nature Reserve Journal: Unexpected Encounters
In this month’s Gosforth Nature Reserve Journal, NHSN naturalist, Christopher Wren, shares some surprise encounters captured on trail camera….
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Fern Foray in Jesmond Dene
This week, NHSN Naturalists set off in search of some fabulous ferns along the Ouse Burn Way. See what they…