Saturday 3rd May 2025 An adventurous five members turned up in glorious sunny conditions and despite the strong westerly breeze there was plenty of Green-veined Whites and Orange-tips already flying about. This trip was about seeing the Lesser Whitethroat and hopefully the Holly Blue butterfly as I had seen both in amongst the coastal HawthornContinueContinue reading “PNHS Greenan shore outing”
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Festival Celebrating Renfrewshire Biodiversity
Art is Ecology! Festival Celebrating Renfrewshire Biodiversity Come and join us to celebrate ‘International Day for Biological Diversity’ from 11am-3pm Saturday, 17 May at Tannahill Community Centre and Library, 76 Blackstoun Road, Paisley. Paisley Museum and Art Gallery and the Open University welcome Renfrewshire folks of all ages and interests to this free event. It’sContinueContinue reading “Festival Celebrating Renfrewshire Biodiversity “
Dawn Chorus Walk
As far as we know there’s never been an organised dawn chorus walk at Jenny’s Well Local Nature Reserve before, so we needed to put that right! It was about 04:50 when I arrived at Jenny’s Well Road, to see that two or three other PNHS folks had already turned up. Over the next 10ContinueContinue reading “Dawn Chorus Walk”
Introduction to Recording using Apps
9th April 7pm – Via Zoom Recording wildlife sightings may seem challenging and time consuming. However there are a number of apps for mobile phones that make it simple, easy and fun to contribute to citizen science projects and help protect our environment. This zoom talk will give a practical overview of how to useContinueContinue reading “Introduction to Recording using Apps”
PNHS summer study group outings
We plan to have weekly or fortnightly outings to some of our local wildlife places. There are many local places to be explored, including Renfrewshire Local Nature Conservation Sites that need more surveying. Along with this, we hope to help members develop more skills in identifying the local wildlife with a bit of training, depending onContinueContinue reading “PNHS summer study group outings”
Report on Tree Walk, Spier’s School Grounds, Beith
Saturday 15th February 2025 A change from our usual winter tree walk in woodland plantations, this year we went to the grounds of the Old Spier’s School in Beith, which has more mature formal planting and some challenging, unusual species. Fortunately, there is a tree trail map and we had the invaluable help of SimonContinueContinue reading “Report on Tree Walk, Spier’s School Grounds, Beith”
Interested in wildlife study groups?
Dave Mellor has sent this proposal to start online study sessions to look at wildlife groups and to go out into the field to record what we find. Open to anyone interested in learning more about identifying and recording wildlife: Spring is on its way! and the opportunity to get active in the field againContinueContinue reading “Interested in wildlife study groups?”
Gleniffer Braes Lichen Outing
On Saturday 18th January 2025 Eleven people met at the Nethercraigs Road entrance to the country park for the third of the now annual lichen walks run by the society. Most were members of the society but we also had one person from the local British Lichen Society group. The intention of this walk wasContinueContinue reading “Gleniffer Braes Lichen Outing”
Braving the weather on a New Year Plant Hunt
Every year the Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland (BSBI) organise a New Year Plant Hunt. All you have to do is spend a couple of hours looking for wild plants in flower between 29 December 2024 to 1st January 2025. Ours was arranged for 31st December. It is a lovely way to spend aContinueContinue reading “Braving the weather on a New Year Plant Hunt”
Biodiversity and planning webinar series
Biodiversity and Planning in Scotland is the theme of the APRS and Planning Democracy Winter Webinar Series. It is partly inspired by the number of enquiries they receive on planning where people express their concern for the potential loss of biodiversity and don’t always feel this is given appropriate weight in a planning decision. WhyContinueContinue reading “Biodiversity and planning webinar series”
