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Walking the Ouse Burn Part 5: ‘A Great Park Surprise!’
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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…

30 May 2025

Birds | Botany | Great Park | Invertebrates | Ornithology | Ouse Burn | Ouseburn | The Ouse Burn Way | Walking

Getting Started with Grasses: Woodland Grasses
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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….

30 May 2025

Botany | Grass ID | Grasses | James Common

Gosforth Nature Reserve Journal: Dragonfly Emergence
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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…

28 May 2025

Dragonfly | Gosforth Nature Reserve

Getting Started with Grasses: Meadows and Neutral Grassland
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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….

7 May 2025

Botany | Grass ID | Grasses | James Common

NHSN Field Skills – Bees at Gosforth Nature Reserve
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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…

7 May 2025

Field Skills | NHSN Field Skills

Getting Started with Grasses: Waysides and Rough Ground
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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…

1 May 2025

Botany | Grass ID | Grasses | James Common

Gosforth Nature Reserve Journal: Unexpected Encounters
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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….

23 April 2025

Carrion Crow | Gosforth Nature Reserve | Grey Heron | Stoat

Fern Foray in Jesmond Dene
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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…

23 April 2025

Ferns | Jesmond Dene

27 Passionate Young Naturalists Join the NHSN Field Skills Programme
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27 Passionate Young Naturalists Join the NHSN Field Skills Programme

Thanks to the support of the Reece Foundation, this week, we welcomed 27 passionate young naturalists to take part in the 2025 NHSN Field Skills Programme….

24 March 2025

Field Skills | John Spedan lewis | Natural History Skills

Gosforth Nature Reserve Journal: American Mink
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Gosforth Nature Reserve Journal: American Mink

In this month’s Gosforth Nature Reserve Journal, NHSN naturalist, Christopher Wren, takes a closer look at the invasive American Mink and the impact on native wildlife in the UK….

24 March 2025

American Mink | Citizen Science | Gosforth Nature Reserve | Invasive Species

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