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Deliverers and Mailout Support Volunteers
Can you help deliver nature to letterboxes across the North East? We’re looking for friendly and energetic volunteers to help with our members’ magazine and mailout….
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‘Beyond the bounds of his usual gravity’: Gilbert White’s art of nature writing
Library volunteer Ian Bower rediscovers an early classic of the English countryside in the North East Nature Archive The NHSN’s…
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The Pitmen Naturalists 2: Joseph Taylor (1841 -1925)
In the second instalment of a series on the unsung citizen scientists of the Northumberland coalfield, archives volunteer Maureen Flisher…
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Mr. Atkinson’s Remarkable Trees
Nick Johnson, project lead of the Northumbria Veteran Tree Project, explores the legacy of George Clayton Atkinson’s pioneering 1876 catalogue…
Archive & Library ›
Taking Wing: 1 Year as Ornithology Co-ordinator at the NHSN
From evening talks to adventurous walks, Anna Temple looks back on her first year as NHSN’s Ornithology Co-ordinator As I…
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Community, craft and conversation at Land of Oak and Iron
NHSN Heritage Researcher Rachel Anderson reflects on a community workshop about nature and wellbeing as part of the lottery heritage…
Citizen Science ›
Gosforth Nature Reserve Journal: The North East Ladybird Spot
The North East Ladybird Spot began four years ago in February 2021 and since then almost 200 volunteers have submitted nearly 10,000 records of 28 species of ladybirds. …
Citizen Science | Gosforth Nature Reserve | Invertebrates | Ladybirds | North East Ladybird Spot
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Walking the Ouse Burn Part 4: ‘The Call of the Peewit’
This instalment of ‘Walking the Ouse Burn’ was an interesting one! We started at Gosforth Nature Reserve, a place I’ve…
Botany | Fungi | Heathery Lane | Lapwing | Ouse Burn | Ouse Burn Way | Ouseburn | The Ouse Burn Way
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The Pitmen Naturalists 1: John Simm (1829 – 1904)
Library and Archive volunteer Maureen Flisher explores the life and library of a citizen scientist from West Cramlington I was…
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A River Through Time
Writer Rob Galpin reflects on his relationship with the Tyne and its wildlife It took me twenty years to notice…