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The Big Butterfly Count

By The Voice Editor   Posted in Issue 156
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There are just a few days left to join the Big Butterfly Count –  feeling inspired, the Arran Natural History Society recently spotted these beautiful Heath butterflies: Do you know your large heaths from your small heaths? Large heaths are on the wing just now but have a short flight period. They are slightly bigger …

Nature’s Calendar

By The Voice Editor   Posted in Issue 152
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Published on the Caught by the River website, 7th March 2024. Featured image credit P Finlay. The Woodland Trust and British Science Week (8th-17th March) seek new volunteer phenologists to update Nature’s Calendar, an almost 300-year-old tradition to track nature’s changing events. Phenology is the study of seasonal changes in plants and animals from year to …