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The 5th Glen Affric Walking Festival
Date Location
A series of guided walks will wind you through and up the 18 Munros which sit locally to Glen Affric, offering you a fantastic opportunity to enjoy the landscape in company. Full details and booking forms can be found on the website.
30 May–2 Jun (Times vary) Glen Affric, Highlands
Allt More Trail Guided Walk
Date Location
Easy, guided two-hour downhill walk from high moorlands at Cairgorm, through a Caledonian pine forest, to Glenmore.
Sundays 2.30 Cairngorm Mountain Ranger Base, Aviemore
Angus Glens Walking Festival
Date Location
Popular walking spectacular comprising a variety of walks ranging from easy to very strenuous with several suitable for persons with disabilities and the chance to refuel at evening events.
29 May–1 Jun (Times vary) Various Venues, Angus
Arnhall Amble
Date Location
Explore Arnhall Moss with the help of a ranger. Everyone is welcome, but please book in advance.
31 May 1.30–3.00 Arnhall Moss Local Nature Reserve
Badger Watch Safari
Date Location
Travel by Land Rover with an experienced ranger to wait for badgers to emerge from their sett.
15 May–30 Jun 6.00–8.30 Safari Lodge, Aberfeldy
Beginners Map Reading and Navigation Course
Date Location
Enjoy a weekend learning how to map read and navigate. The course covers basic routine, scale, distance judgement, use of linear features, contour interpretation, environmental and first aid awareness. The cost covers national Navigation Award bronze level assessment.
31 May–1 Jun 9.00am–5.30 Mugdock Country Park, Glasgow
The Black Feather Jacket Gang
Date Location
The black feather jacket gang are a troop of teenage rooks. Visit Den Wood rookery and hang out with these intelligent corvids.
25 May 2.00–4.00 Den Wood
Bluebell Festival
Date Location
A series of Ranger guided wildflower walks around the purple carpeted woodlands. Suitable footwear required and children must be accompanied by an adult.
10 May–6 Aug (Times vary) David Marshall Lodge, Aberfoyle
Bug Idol! Strichen Auditions
Date Location
Find the best minibeast. Ages 8-12. Booking essential.
31 May 10.30am–12.00 Strichen Community Park, Strichen
Dawn Patrol Safari
Date Location
Early morning Land Rover Safari to find out what's out and about just as dawn breaks.
1 May–30 Jun 6.00–8.30am Safari Lodge, Aberfeldy
Ferocious and Feathered!
Date Location
Find out what a tyrannosaurus and a magpie have in common, in this exhibition about dinosaurs and seabirds and how they have evolved. Free with admission to the Seabird Centre.
8 Mar–1 Jun 10.00am–6.00 Scottish Seabird Centre, North Berwick
Garden Club - Gardening Scotland Exhibition Outing
Date Location
Hitch a ride with the garden club to the exhibition at the Royal Highland Centre. Booking Essential.
31 May 9.00am–4.30 Mugdock Country Park Mugdock Country Park Visitor Centre, Nr Milngavie
Garden Walk
Date Location
Take a Tuesday turn around the garden with the head gardener and learn all about the international plants which grow there.
Tuesdays 2.00–3.00 Brodick Castle and Country Park, Isle Of Arran
Guided Walk: Leith Hall
Date Location
Join head gardener Toby Loveday for an evening stroll around the garden and then take tea and scones in Leith Hall's tea room. All proceeds from this event will go to Scotland's Garden Scheme Charities.
28 May 7.30–9.00 Leith Hall, Aberdeenshire
Himalayan Blue Poppy Day
Date Location
Info about Himalayan blue poppies from the experts and a free tour of the garden at 2pm with the head gardener.
25 May 10.00am–4.00 Culzean Castle, Maybole
Homes for Wildlife
Date Location
Find out from the RSPB what you can do to attract wildlife into your garden. Ages 5+.
25 May 10.00am–4.00 Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
Illustrated Wildlife Talks
Date Location
Illustrated talks on ospreys, capercaillie, raptors, and the Abernethy Forest and Insh Marshes National Nature Reserves.
Mondays 8.30–10.00 Boat of Garten New Community Hall, Boat of Garten
Junior Nature Club: No Parents Required
Date Location
Follow the tracks and trails of animals around Mugdock with the Rangers. Ages 8-12. Booking essential.
25 May 1.45–4.00 Mugdock Country Park, Glasgow
Meet the Badgers of Corstorphine Hill
Date Location
Explore the wonderful world of these nocturnal creatures and join a countryside ranger for a badger watch on Corstorphine Hill. Please bring sturdy footwear, warm dark clothes and waterproofs. Ages 12+; under 16s must be accompanied.
28 May 9.00–11.30 Corstorphine Hill, Edinburgh
The Moth Game
Date Location
A chance to get up close and personal with some moths caught the previous night by the RSPB.
25 May 11.00am–4.00 Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park, Lochwinnoch
Moths on the Moss
Date Location
Learn about the amazing nocturnal lives of moths at this ranger-led wander to Portlethen Moss. Please being sunglasses or a wide brimmed hat to shade your eyes from the moth trap light. Meet at the south-east entrance to the Moss on Bruntland Road.
30 May 9.00 Portlethen Moss
Natural History Walks
Date Location
Guided walks which offer the chance to explore the wildlife of the RSPB's most bio-diverse reserve-Abernethy National Nature Reserve. Bookings are essential and can be made from 1/04/08 between 11am and 5pm.
Wednesdays 9.30am–12.30 RSPB Loch Garten Osprey Centre, by Boat of Garten
Perth and Kinross Cycling Summer
Date Location
The Perth and Kinross Council have organised a plethora of summer cycling activities to keep you moving and exploring. With daring off-road jaunts and accompanied rides through some cracking scenery, from the seasoned lycra wearer to the novice pedal pusher, there will be something to suit every taste. Please check the website for details of the full programme.
5 Apr–19 Sep (Times vary) Various venues, Perth & Kinross
Ramble Through Rassal
Date Location
Join this ranger-led ramble through one of Scotland's last remaining natural ashwoods and discover its unusually rich nutrient soils.
28 May 1.00–2.30 Rassal National Nature Reserve
Reed Beds Revealed: Inner Tay Estuary Local Nature Reserve
Date Location
Hop aboard the Marigot and the Badger with the Camperdown Rangers and explore the reed beds.
1 Jun Inner Tay Local Nature Reserve, Dundee

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