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Newcastle’s Nature Network’s Journal: Indicators of Ancient Woodland
Discover a new series of blogs, as NHSN’s Naturalists take you on a journey of urban nature discovery with Newcastle Nature Networks….
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Getting Started with Grasses: Alien Grasses
Discover the North East’s alien grasses and start identifying your own in the fifth instalment of a new series of blogs by NHSN Senior Naturalist, James Common….
Botany | Grass ID | Grasses | James Common
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Getting Started with Grasses: Arable Grasses
Discover the North East’s common arable grasses and start identifying your own in the fourth instalment of a new series of blogs by NHSN Senior Naturalist, James Common….
Botany | Grass ID | Grasses | James Common
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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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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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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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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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Walking the Ouse Burn Part 3: ‘Kingfishers and Cave Spiders’
I was really excited for this instalment of ‘Walking the Ouse Burn’. Jesmond Dene in particular holds many fond childhood…
Botany | Fungi | Jesmond Dene | Kingfisher | Ouse Burn | Ouse Burn Way | Ouseburn | Paddy Freeman | The Ouse Burn Way
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Walking the Ouse Burn Part 2: ‘Fabulous Fungi’
Join Urban Naturalist, Ellie Davison, for a walk along the Ouse Burn from from Jesmond Vale, through Armstrong and Heaton Park, and on towards Benton Bank to look at some of the flora, fauna and funga….
Armstrong Park | Botany | Fungi | Heaton Park | Ouse Burn | Ouse Burn Way | Ouseburn | The Ouse Burn Way