Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve

Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve Explore this exciting habitat at any time of year, you'll find frogs and toads in spring, lizards and adders in summer, geese in autumn and winter.

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Loch Lomond NNR - The team & volunteers were out controlling Skunk Cabbage, 290 less plants in the swamped area. However...
22/04/2026

Loch Lomond NNR - The team & volunteers were out controlling Skunk Cabbage, 290 less plants in the swamped area. However, it's a fraction of the ground we must monitor and control 😬

Flanders Moss NNR- Meet Julie, our new Reserve Officer 😃 With 5 years of experience as a seasonal officer, Julie has now...
15/04/2026

Flanders Moss NNR- Meet Julie, our new Reserve Officer 😃 With 5 years of experience as a seasonal officer, Julie has now joined our team permanently! Today's task: reintroducing Caroline Curlew to the moss

14/10/2025

Blawhorn Moss NNR - A full day of learning and showcasing peatland restoration

Blawhorn Moss NNR- great afternoon spent with a team of Oatridge SRUC students who are out helping us on the reserve, ta...
08/10/2025

Blawhorn Moss NNR- great afternoon spent with a team of Oatridge SRUC students who are out helping us on the reserve, taking some fencing & post down, whilst the moss still undergoes peatland restoration work

Our hardy volunteers and reserve officers have had a busy summer searching out the invasive Himalayan Balsam (Impatiens ...
26/09/2025

Our hardy volunteers and reserve officers have had a busy summer searching out the invasive Himalayan Balsam (Impatiens glandulifera) from the Loch Lomond reserve. Balsam loves the damp areas along the wee burns and hidden ditches and enjoys nestling amongst the tangle of tree trunks and branches.

Native to the Western Himalayas and introduced in 1839 for its ornamental value, it outcompetes native plants by forming dense stands and leaving vulnerable bare ground after its winter die back. Big nectar producers they are more attractive to pollinating insects, leaving native flowering plants less visited and therefore less effectively pollinated.

The best time to uproot the balsam is before their flowers turn to seed. This can be tricky without their showy pink flowers relying on spotting the three terminal jaggy leaves at the top of the plant.

The seed pods are explosive, spring loaded and fire the seeds up to seven metres away (each pod having around 16 seeds, and plants having around 800 in total), they can also spread by sending out roots from their stem nodes.

Spaces still available to join us this Saturday for some birch clearance at Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve, to he...
05/09/2025

Spaces still available to join us this Saturday for some birch clearance at Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve, to help protect it's special wildlife, including Bog Cranberry and the Endangered Large Heath Butterfly. Email [email protected] to book a place!

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