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Exploring urban ladybirds in Jesmond
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Exploring urban ladybirds in Jesmond

Last week, a group of seven local students took to Jesmond Old Cemetery on a sunny Saturday morning with the…

3 March 2022

Insects | Ladybirds | North East Ladybird Spot

A Ringer’s Year: January 2022
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A Ringer’s Year: January 2022

North East ornithologist, Phil Hanmer, shares a new update summarising bird ringing across Northumberland throughout December …

17 February 2022

Ringers Year

Exploring your North East ladybird sightings so far
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Exploring your North East ladybird sightings so far

Take a closer look at your sightings and discoveries during the first month of this year’s North East Ladybird Spot…

17 February 2022

Citizen Science | Invertebrates | ladybird | North East Ladybird Spot

NHSN members exclusive holiday with Naturetrek
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NHSN members exclusive holiday with Naturetrek

Book your NHSN members’ exclusive holiday to Orkney with Naturetrek This year, we’re delighted to once again bring you the…

16 February 2022

holiday

A quick guide to orchid photography
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A quick guide to orchid photography

As part of Discovering Orchids, explore a short guide to orchid photography to help botanists identify your finds….

4 February 2022

Botany | Discovering Orchids

How to be a Young North East Naturalist gets underway
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How to be a Young North East Naturalist gets underway

Nature Ranger, Jack Butlin, provides a short update as NHSN’s How to be a Young North East Naturalist project gets…

2 February 2022

Gosforth Nature Reserve is safe again, thanks to you
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Gosforth Nature Reserve is safe again, thanks to you

Persimmon Homes are withdrawing plans to build 133 homes opposite Gosforth Nature Reserve Following news that Persimmon Homes had submitted…

28 January 2022

Gosforth Nature Reserve | Persimmon

Red Squirrels coming through Storm Arwen
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Red Squirrels coming through Storm Arwen

Heinz Traut of Red Squirrels Northern England shares an update on the impact of Storn Arwen on the North East’s…

28 January 2022

Red Squirrels | Storm Arwen

Volunteers needed – help observe birds cache from your feeder
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Volunteers needed – help observe birds cache from your feeder

Discover how you can get involved in a new study monitoring caching behaviour in a range of familiar garden birds…

27 January 2022

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Spider families and their webs
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Spider families and their webs

Undergraduate student, Sam Gemmell, takes a closer look at spider webs exploring how you can identify their owner without a spider in sight…

18 January 2022

Invertebrates | Spiders

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