26 th July 2022 Four of us (Fleur Miles, Steve Gater, Derek Risbey and David Selby) left the Darlington drizzletraveling west where we were welcomed to the sunny skies of Cumbria above Tebay.Travelling further down the M6 and then towards Grange-over-Sands we parked near thehamlet of Mill Side. As we set out to climb the […]
Hell Kettles 21 st of June 2022 was the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere and our club members werewalking, recording flora and fauna in the Hell Kettles. Famous botanists of Darlington, StephenRobson (1777), Dr.R.Taylor Manson (1884), J.B.Nicholson (! 929) visited and recorded plants atHell Kettles. There were two theories about the origins of these […]
By Derek Risbey Different ? Persephone Risbey our 11-year old granddaughter spotted something different in her sports field at Heighington school recently. It was a four-leaf clover. I think it’s funny that we quickly notice something that is different when we are looking at plants. It was a four leaf white clover (triforia repens) Which […]
Eleven members visited Muker on a pleasant sunny day. Muker is an interesting village in Swaledale and takes its name from the Old Norse “Mjor-akr” which means narrow acre. The Church of St. Mary the Virgin dates back to 1580. There is a long history behind the Swaledale Woollen industry when the knitting of stockings […]
20TH of March 2022 was the vernal equinox day in Northern Hemisphere, which marks the beginning of the spring season. The day was sunny with 13 degrees Celsius temperature. At 2 PM twelve members from the club joined in this memorial walk to count the Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem at Low Coniscliffe village. The ground is sandy […]
Don’s walk, Yellow Star-of- Bethlehem Gagea lutea. Leader Falgunee Sarker. Sunday 20th of March, time 2-00 pm, at Low Coniscliffe village, Darlington. Enter the village from A67 and continue until the road divides. Here we will take the left-hand road and park at the end. The path is uneven. We will be following the River […]
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The crocus is flowering now and I was exploring the position of the ovary in the crocus flower. This radially symmetrical flower has sepals, not petals. This was what I did to find the ovary. Lift the whole plant out of the ground including the corm. Then gently dissect longitudinally the perianth with the long […]
January 2021 has been an unusual month for wildlife recording as for the majority of the month the whole nation has been in lockdown due to the Corona virus pandemic. This has meant that the Club’s recorders have been limited to the areas around their homes, allowing them to concentrate entirely on their local birds […]