wildlife Archives - Cumbernauld Living Landscape

If you go down to the meadows today

1st July 2020, by Fiona McGrevey

The Cumbernauld Living Landscape team are gradually getting back out to visit some greenspaces in Cumbernauld. Tracy, our Project Officer for Young People visited St Maurice’s Pond recently and was amazed at how much the meadow was thriving! There’s such a diverse range of plant species to be found including knapweed, yellow rattle and birds foot trefoil. Benefiting from these…

Education and community, Projects, Species and habitats, Volunteering, Wildlife reserves, Creating Natural Connections

Taking Care Of Our Greenspaces

24th June 2020, by Guest Blogger

Local resident Kate Fromings has written this guest blog about why we should take better care of the town’s greenspaces. In Cumbernauld we are incredibly lucky to have the use of a plethora of greenspaces. No matter which side of the town you reside in, there’s a piece of nature just minutes from your front door. Abronhill has Forest Wood,…

General, Guest blog, Tips and advice, Wildlife reserves, Appeals and campaigns

The plight of the male bumblebee

9th April 2020, by Tracy Lambert

PART FOUR Once the males have hatched, they leave the nest never to return. Their sole purpose is to feed, mate, then die— it is a very short life for the humble male. Most will never mate but those that do will pass on the genes from the mother queen bee and the grandmother, great grandmother etc. hence the…

Species and habitats

The autumn of bumblebees

9th April 2020, by Tracy Lambert

PART THREE All the bees born in spring and early summer are female, born from the queen’s eggs and the male’s stored sperm packet. They are all sisters who are 75% related to each other. We are up to late summer now, and things are going to get a little tense in the nest. As late summer arrives the…

Species and habitats

A bumblebee’s tale of spring and summer

9th April 2020, by Tracy Lambert

PART TWO The discussion I had with students from St Maurices’ about bumblebees will remain with me forever. For two years I would be stopped in the corridors by one or two students who asked me to repeat the bumblebee’s tale, as they couldn’t get their heads around the genetics of how brothers and sisters are related differently. It…

Species and habitats

The humble bumble

7th April 2020, by Tracy Lambert

PART ONE I finally feel that spring has arrived. You might wonder why. After all, meteorological spring was the first of March and the official beginning of spring was the 20th, so why now? Well, I just saw my first bumblebee, and it is never truly spring until I see one of those cute wee fuzzbutts! I adore bumblebees…

Species and habitats

Where has the summer gone?

14th August 2019, by Tracy Lambert

Over the summer I’ve had the pleasure of working with around 60 children transitioning from Primary 7 to first year through the brilliant Home School Partnership Officers (worth their weight in gold) at Greenfaulds and St Maurice’s High. The children were out pond dipping, insect hunting, scavenger hunting and making smores or tea in nature reserves in the town, and…

Education and community, Creating Natural Connections

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,…

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

The woods are alive!

10th April 2019, by Paul Barclay

Do you ever take a wander through the woods and get that feeling in the back of your neck that you’re not alone… that you’re being watched? It sounds like the intro to a horror film, but the truth is you probably are! Luckily, the only creatures watching are likely to be foxes and deer, birds and insects. A group…

Wildlife reserves, Creating Natural Connections, Wild Ways Well

Winter words from Wild Ways Well

26th December 2018, by Claire Bailly

I can’t help it. I always find beauty in nature, or rather it finds me! What has been soul-lifting these last weeks have been the skies! They were well worth stepping out of the path and away from the skyscrapers: dramatic and full of contrasts, from the darkest of the darker shades intermingled with different and lighter shades of greys,…

General, Wild Ways Well

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If you go down to the meadows today

Taking Care Of Our Greenspaces

The plight of the male bumblebee

The autumn of bumblebees

A bumblebee’s tale of spring and summer

The humble bumble

Where has the summer gone?

As Above Better Below

The woods are alive!

Winter words from Wild Ways Well

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