There are more than 100 events planned across Scotland as part of this year's Springwatch. Most will take place on the weekend of 6 and 7 June.
Delph Pond, Tullibody, Clackmannanshire
7 June: 1000-1400
Story teller and three workshops between 1100 and 1400. Help plant the Bog Garden with local volunteers and community wardens carrying out a litter pick up. Clackmannanshire Green Map Initiative will host a Do One Thing For Nature tent and Gartinny Garden Centre (Scottish Autism Society) will help people plant hanging baskets. Many more activities on the day too.
Plus, Radio Scotland’s Out of Doors will be broadcasting live from Delph Pond from 1100 to 1200. Presenters Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith will be joined by Aggie MacKenzie of How Clean Is Your House? who will be getting her hands dirty.
See the Breathing Places website for more information.
In the meantime, here are details of a few of the other events taking place over 6 and 7 June which you can take part in.
Earthship family fun day, Greenhead Moss
6 June: 1200-1500
Greenhead Moss Community Nature Park, Wishaw
Help build an earthship from recycled material including car tyres, cans and bottles which is solar and wind powered. Greenhead Moss itself is a reclaimed site; once being an open cast mine, landfill and working peat bog.
Site for the Earthship at Greenhead Moss
Activities include earth ramming of tyres, interactive mini earthship, guided walk around the park at 1330 and events for children. You’ll receive training in the expertise needed to build the sustainable building which will become a visitor centre for the site. Please wear sensible footwear and clothing.
Wonderful Worms and Fearsome Faces, Dumfries Museum
6 June: 1000-1100 or 1130-1230
sUsing Dumfries Museum grounds as a source for inspiration, worms and mud, the Countryside Ranger will lead the search for these essential friends of the earth. Discover the fascinating world beneath the grass and decorate the trees in the Museum grounds with fearsome mud faces.
The workshops are free but booking is essential. Please telephone 01387 253374 to reserve a place. All children should be accompanied by an adult. Please wear old clothes as the workshops will be messy.
Summerlee Industrial Heritage Park, Coatbridge
7 June, 1100-1600
Featuring the recently developed industrial wildlife trail which connects North Lanarkshire’s industrial past with what we see today. There will also be storytelling in the Fairy Woodland, wild flower planting and seed planting in the bomb shelter of one of the miners rows gardens.
Skiff in Tarbert
Buchlyvie Wildlife Garden, Buchlyvie Primary School
6 and 7 June: 1000-1500
Wildlife activities run by a National Park ranger and local volunteers, a butterfly trail and picnic. Inside the school there are swap stalls for plants and herbs, a demonstration on how to make your own compost. On Sunday there's a family treasure hunt at 1100, ideas for how to make your own scare crow – bring your old clothes, before the scarecrow judging and treasure hunt prize giving at 1400.
Pitcaple Environmental Project
6 and 7 June, 0930- 1600
Take part in the mass planting event with 2,500 plants and shrubs. Also dry-stone walling workshops. Meet at Pitcaple Environmental Project, next to Pitcaple Quarry, Whiteford, Inverurie. Bring layered clothing, footwear suitable for gardening and a packed lunch if required. Age group: adults only.
Tarbert Conservation Initiative
6 and 7 June
Help the Community Trust clean up the picturesque coastline using a flotilla of ships to get rid of debris. Tarbert has one of the best natural harbours in Scotland and enthusiast Robert McPhail and local children have built a replica skiff which is a wooden fishing boat based on the Viking longship – used over 100 years ago. Local craftsmen and children have helped build the boat and how to sail it.
Sustain Dundee: Red Squirrel Project
7 June
Based in Templeton woods. Help make feeders and an extended path network for the public. There will be 'Red Alert' event for the public to raise awareness of squirrel conservation.
Glencairn Community Trust in Partnership with Moniaive Primary
6 June - opening walkway
Join in the opening of a new walkway created by the community council to give local children a safer route to their primary school. A dangerous riverside pathway has been fenced off. The local primary school have also helped create a geological sundial which emphasises local geology.
Renewable energy-powered green building
The Hidden Garden Trust, Glasgow
7 June
Children can help plant shrubs and develop a wildlife area in the garden which sits in an area of industrial wasteland on the Southside of Glasgow.
Grantown Primary
7 June
Dirty Weekend event alongside a school fun day.
Merkinch Reserve Inverness
6 June
Community fun day with stalls, bee-keepers, African drumming, a sports area, clowns, reptile handler and countryside rangers guiding shore-line walks.
Robroyston Seasonal Ranger
6 June
Robroyston park rangers nature reserve day alongside the community in the park day. The community in the park event includes sporting activities and a large marquee.
Knoydart, Lochaber
10 - 12 June
To mark the tenth anniversary of the community buy-out, the Knoydart Foundation are organising tours of the area. The big beach clean-up is scheduled for August.
For more details on these events and to find out what else is going on, visit the Breathing Places website.
