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Rowing Regatta this Saturday at Castle Semple
This weekend is Castle Semple Rowing Club’s annual Regatta. This is always a huge event with lots of people coming from all over the country to participate. Visitors...
What’s out and about at the Greenock Cut
Green Tiger Beetle Cicindela campesteris
Green Tiger beetles are easily recognised by their iridescent green colouring and creamy yellow spots. Their long legs make them agile hunters and their large...
Pollock Boys Brigade Visit Castle Semple
Today we had 14 members of Pollock boys brigade come to Castle Semple to participate in pond dipping. It was a successful, sunny day in the fact that only one boy got his feet wet in the pond! The water minibeasts we found were damselfly nymphs, beatle larvae,...
Meet the new Seasonal Rangers!
We are delighted to introduce the new seasonal ranger staff who have joined us for the coming summer season (Apr-Sept). There are a few familiar faces who have rejoined the team having been here in previous seasons.
Working at Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park is very beneficial for...
BBC Film Waterloo Road by the Loch!
Over the past couple of days it has been very busy by the lochside as the BBC have been using Castle Semple as a location to film the school drama Waterloo Road. The...
Rare beetle at Muirshiel
A rare beetle has been found on the moors on the way to Windy Hill at Muirshiel Country Park. Carabus nitens is a nationally notable specis and is a golden-green ground beetle with bright coppery-red foreparts. It is mainly seen between dawn and dusk on upland heather moors. It...
Heritage Lottery Funding Success for Two Projects
Double celebrations in Heritage Lottery Funding Awards
at Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park
Staff and local communities at Clyde Muirshiel...
Water quality at Castle Semple Loch
Levels of algae are low at Castle Semple Loch and compared to last month there were far fewer Asterionella as a result of lower levels of silica. Although, there was a greater a variety of...
What’s out and about at the Greenock Cut
WOOD-SORREL Oxalis acetosella
Wood–sorrel is one of our early spring time flowers and is often overlooked, it is a plant of shady habitats and appears before woodland trees come fully into leaf. It is often found by streams and damp places where its white solitary flower with delicate lilac veins...
British Sailing Championships 2012
This weekend at Castle Semple is the British National Sailing Championships 2012 for model yacht racing. The group will be there till late on Saturday afternoon and most of...
