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Volunteers in the Willows

19th June 2019, by Cumbernauld LL

The rain is trickling down the small of our backs, our bodies still warming from the tea. “Twenty five to go!” harks the cry from within the group, in an almost victorious tone. Bending the thin strips of willow down, intertwining them with last week’s work (and the week before’s), it’s fair taking shape. As the hiss of the fire…

Volunteering, Wild Ways Well

As Above Better Below

1st May 2019, by Paul Barclay

The sound of the motorway thunders in my ears and I imagine the cars moving up and down it. What are all those people thinking about as they drive past? Are they marvelling at the road itself, this miracle of human engineering? Oh the wonders above, but what about the wonders below? I chuckle as I move through the woods,…

Inspirational, Wild Ways Well, Species and habitats, Guest blog, Volunteering

What can we do about rubbish?

13th March 2019, by Tracy Lambert

Litter. Everyone hates it, and yet it remains one of our biggest environmental problems. From the cigarette ends and dog poo bags to fly-tipped furniture, it seems like litter is everywhere in our woodlands, parks and streams. No doubt you’ll have heard aware of the waste epidemic in ours sea, but did you know that an estimated 80% of this marine…

Appeals and campaigns, General, Education and community, Volunteering, Wildlife reserves

The work never stops for our Nature Ninjas

27th February 2019, by Tracy Lambert

This weekend on Sunday 3 March Cumbernauld Living Landscape has a volunteer day from 12-4pm at Cumbernauld Glen reserve, as part of our Creating Natural Connections project. Our Nature Ninja volunteers have a number of tasks to do this year, such as trimming back the snowberry, removing grass and overgrown weeds, and clearing leaves off the path. Keeping the path…

Volunteering, Creating Natural Connections

Beating the Winter Blues

13th February 2019, by Paul Barclay

It’s been a cold start to the year but that hasn’t stopped the Wild Ways Well group from getting out exploring Cumbernauld’s wildlife reserves. I suffer badly from Seasonal Affective Disorder, also known as ‘the winter blues’. You might relate to an annual feeling of dread and depression during the dark days of winter. When it’s a struggle to get…

Wild Ways Well, Volunteering, Wildlife reserves

Fresh signs of pine marten in Cumbernauld

23rd January 2019, by Tracy Lambert

Recently Nature Ninja volunteer Ann Innes captured video of a pine marten in a woodland in Cumbernauld, it looks wonderfully healthy and it may be a female looking for a safe space to den and have her young in spring. We’ll be watching out for signs of these very cute kits! It is safe to say that the pine marten…

Species and habitats, Volunteering

New Year, New You

2nd January 2019, by Paul Barclay

What were you doing at the bells? If you’re anything like me you will have course have been sitting in furious concentration studying a year planner, mapping out your route through 2019. And in order to have as successful a year as possible you’ll also have been planning your resolutions, all the ways you’re going to make 2019 the…

Volunteering, Wild Ways Well

Winter is Coming

5th December 2018, by Paul Barclay

As my granddad used to say, “the nights are fair draw’n in”. As I write this at 4pm it’s already dark outside and the tail end of a winter storm is blowing freezing rain through the town. But before I complain, perhaps I should spare a thought for the wildlife which is enduring the same conditions but doesn’t get to…

Species and habitats, Volunteering, Wildlife reserves, Creating Natural Connections, Wild Ways Well

Getting arty this Autumn

14th November 2018, by Paul Barclay

What’s in a name? Until quite recently few people had any use for season names except for winter and summer. There were a few changes before we settled on a name, what is now autumn was once called hairst (harvest) or fall. Whatever you call it autumn is a great time to get arty outdoors. Poets and writers have always…

Volunteering, Wildlife reserves, Creating Natural Connections, Wild Ways Well

Celebrating our Wild Ways Well participants

3rd October 2018, by Paul Barclay

Last week the Wild Ways Well Thursday group embarked upon our first ever celebration trip with a sense of trepidation. It was in the aftermath of Storm Ali so there was much checking of the weather reports in the run up as we prepared to set off to the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Loch Ardinning reserve, just north of Glasgow. Although we…

Volunteering, Wildlife reserves, Wild Ways Well

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