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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

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

Walking the Ouse Burn Part 2: ‘Fabulous Fungi’
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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….

21 January 2025

Armstrong Park | Botany | Fungi | Heaton Park | Ouse Burn | Ouse Burn Way | Ouseburn | The Ouse Burn Way

Walking the Ouse Burn Part 1: ‘Urban Gems’
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Walking the Ouse Burn Part 1: ‘Urban Gems’

Join Urban Naturalist, Ellie Davison, for a walk from Lower Ouseburn to Heaton Park to learn about the ecology of this bustling area of Newcastle….

13 January 2025

Botany | Fungi | Heaton Park | Ouse Burn Way | Ouseburn | The Ouse Burn Way

Hidden treasures: Revisiting the Fungi Paintings of Sarah Dickson
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Hidden treasures: Revisiting the Fungi Paintings of Sarah Dickson

Heritage Researcher Mel Tuckett and volunteer Alan Hart introduce one of the artistic highlights of the North East Nature Archive…

3 December 2024

Archive | Botany | Citizen Science | Fungi | History of Science | Nature's Cure | North East Nature Archive

‘To preserve men from sicknes, sorowe and payne’: William Turner’s Great Herbal
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‘To preserve men from sicknes, sorowe and payne’: William Turner’s Great Herbal

NHSN Heritage Researcher Rachel Anderson investigates one of the most priceless books in the North East Nature Archive collection This…

23 October 2024

Archive | Botany | Library and Archive | Nature's Cure

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