When to mow a meadow
Communications Officer, Rachel Shaw, looks back through time to find out why our flower-rich meadows and road verges are cut in the summer.
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Eye to eye with a heron
Communications Officer, Rachel Shaw, finds that even familiar paths from home can deliver memorable moments in nature
Lady's bedstraw lingers through time
Communications Officer, Rachel Shaw, on a favourite meadow flower spotted near to her home in the centre of Lincoln and the loss of meadows from our everyday landscape
Re-connecting with Sow Dale
Walking boots sit forlornly with no-where to go but a restriction on travel doesn’t stop exploration. As Communications Officer, Rachel Shaw, discovers with the help of an OS map and ‘Trustees for…
Space for skylarks
Lockdown is forcing us all to re-connect with the green spaces that are local to us. For Communications Officer, Rachel Shaw, that's not just her small garden but also the wide open space of…
Snowdrops
A mass of white snowdrops are a much antipated sight in late winter and they have special adaptations to thrive in the cold conditions
The hidden life of the humble bumblebee
Communications Officer, Rachel Shaw, discovers the hidden lives of one of our favourite insects.
Botanical snapshots in time
Communications Officer Rachel Shaw joined a training session organised by the #LoveLincsPlants project and discovered there's more to creating a herbarium than just pressing a few flowers.…
A sunrise soundscape
On the 70th anniversary of it becoming a nature reserve, communications officer Rachel Shaw, was at Gibraltar Point watching the sunrise.
Spectacular swooping starlings
As dusk arrives, starlings gather in huge flocks above their communal roost sites. Although numbers of starlings in the UK have plummeted in recent years; these murmurations (the name of a flock…