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Newcastle’s Nature Network’s Journal: Wetland Plants
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Newcastle’s Nature Network’s Journal: Wetland Plants

Discover the magic of wetlands in this instalment of the Newcastle’s Nature Network’s Journal….

13 October 2025

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Newcastle’s Nature Network’s Journal: Indicators of Ancient Woodland 
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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….

10 September 2025

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Getting Started with Grasses: Alien Grasses
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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….

24 June 2025

Botany | Grass ID | Grasses | James Common

Getting Started with Grasses: Arable Grasses
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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….

17 June 2025

Botany | Grass ID | Grasses | James Common

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

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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

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

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

Walking the Ouse Burn Part 4: ‘The Call of the Peewit’
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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…

21 February 2025

Botany | Fungi | Heathery Lane | Lapwing | Ouse Burn | Ouse Burn Way | Ouseburn | The Ouse Burn Way

Walking the Ouse Burn Part 3: ‘Kingfishers and Cave Spiders’
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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…

3 February 2025

Botany | Fungi | Jesmond Dene | Kingfisher | Ouse Burn | Ouse Burn Way | Ouseburn | Paddy Freeman | The Ouse Burn Way

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