Blog: Rachel Shaw

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Sotby Meadows

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.

Grey heron in reeds

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

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

Sow Dale

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…

Skylark

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

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

Historic herbarium

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.…

first light at Gibraltar Point

A sunrise soundscape

On the 70th anniversary of it becoming a nature reserve, communications officer Rachel Shaw, was at Gibraltar Point watching the sunrise.