Author: James Common
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A summary of a fantastic year spent watching, recording, and enjoying North East nature. often in great company.
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Get started identifying small-flowered fleabanes a brand-new crib sheet suitable for beginners. So far, this fledgling series of botanical cribs has focused on plants commonly…
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Ladybirds have been a theme of 2022. Fresh from twelve months of ladybird recording, here’s a quick round-up of the highlights this year.
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Start identifying dead-nettles with a new crib suitable for beginners. Includes most of the species you’re likely to spot in urban habitats.
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Get started identifying ragworts and groundsels with a brand-new crib sheet suitable for beginners.
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This weekend provided a nice opportunity for our new local botany group to visit Walker Riverside. Here’s what we encountered. Botany (and wildlife recording in…
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With the arrival of winter, now seemed like a good time to look back on a year’s worth of ladybirds and look forward to a…
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This week, I was both suprised and delighted to recieve the NBN Newcomer Award for Wildlife Recording.
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Having never tried my hand at aphid identification, this Summer proved quite a steep learning curve with many interesting species seen.
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A quick round up of this week’s outings in Newcastle with visits to multiple urban sites across the city. City Centre A trip into the…
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Entry number four in our Plant of the Week series follows the unexpected discovery of Italian Toadflax growing in my local cemetery.
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A short round-up of a glorious Saturday morning spent botanising one of my favourite local sites. It is no secret that I am a big…
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A short introduction to a personal passion project mapping the diverse and fascinating flora of Newcastle As many of you will know, I have a…
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A breif and evolving list of great places to find and record ladybirds in North East England.