Hedgehog Haven

Coming home one night I saw the outline of a hedgehog in the middle of the road. For a brief moment, the animal froze like a living statue; I acted instinctively and slammed on the brakes; the animal gave me a considered look, wheezed over to the verge on the other side and vanished into the hedgerow.

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Have You Seen this Moth?

The Forestry Commission is appealing to walkers and ramblers who are out and about in woodlands this summer to look out for pine-tree lappet moths and let it know if they see any.

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Newhailes Nippers get back to Nature

Under-fives in East Lothian are being invited to go wild with the National Trust for Scotland at its historic Newhailes estate, from March this year.

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East Lothian’s Seals

Seals are a great favourite with visitors to zoos and circuses but two species of seal can also be seen in their native habitat on the East Lothian shores: the grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) and the common seal (Phoca vitulina)
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