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Notes on the Open Day
By Mark Zygadlo The end of February may seem like a risky time to organise an outdoor event to reflect on the progress of the Glenmidge Burn Project based, as it is, in one of the wettest areas of Scotland. But we were very lucky: the 22nd of February was a perfect day in lots…
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Super Soil
Alice is from the University of Glasgow and is carrying out a project on our land investigating the soil.
Read more >>Wonderful Waxcaps
By Antoine Lemaire Last Saturday, I went out to carry out a fungus survey on the ground along the burn. What a beautiful day it ended up being, despite a foggy and cloudy start! The aim was to take part in Plantlife’s Waxcap Watch, a citizen science project aimed at recording grassland fungus species. Waxcaps…
Read more >>Camera traps along the burn
By Antoine Lemaire As part of surveying the Glenmidge Burn and adjacent land, four trail cameras have been set up in various places. Three of them were lent to us by the South West Scotland Environmental Information Centre. It has been great to read the land and the whispers of trails in order to make…
Read more >>Our first WeBS survey
By Mark Zygadlo At ten o’clock on a damp Saturday morning, Antoine and I set off to the foot of the Glenmidge Burn where it issues into the Nith. It has been raining for the last few days and the water levels are high. The milky tan water surges over most of the island and…
Read more >>Land for Sale – An opportunity for a community buy out!
The Glenmidge Burn Project is an Unincorporated Community Association focussed on the ecology of land along the Glenmidge Burn, part of which is in the Keir CC area. We have an open membership of 40+, we carry out Phase 1 Baseline surveys, identifying habitats and sharing data with SWSEIC. We present open citizen science events…
Read more >>We’ve got funding!
by Marianne Nicholson For many, attending a community council meeting is probably a bore but when I went along with Mark on the 17th of July to the Keir CC I found I actually got a bit of a thrill out of it. Mark came and picked me up on Monday evening and we drove…
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Mark’s recipe for a successful BioBlitz: moth trapping, kick sampling and a large scoop of fascination
By Mark Zygadlo The absence of rain over the last month has left the Glenmidge Burn pretty low but strangely enough, even though the catchment is quite small and the burn is short, I have never known it dry up altogether. One theory is that the sandy, gravelly, drumlined area above the Lag is an…
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A Sunday morning well spent
By Mark Zygadlo It is a cold and drizzly Sunday morning, typical of this spring. Seven of us meet in a muddy lay-by near the Halliday Hill roadend. We change into wellies and waterproofs before venturing into the undergrowth with pencils, pads and reference books at the ready. This is the fifth survey session of…
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