The Southern Reporter - Outdoors Feed

First adventure festival a Muckle success

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:45:06 GMT

More than 600 competitors took part in Langholm’s first Muckle Toon Adventure Festival at the weekend.

Local line-up for national festival

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:50:23 GMT

Award-winning photographer Laurie Campbell holds a day-long outdoors photography workship near Jedburgh next Sunday.

Time to shed that macho image, Mr Entwistle

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:50:12 GMT

HOW do you measure the success of a smallholder? By how much they manage to produce to feed their family each year? By how many gallons of pea-pod burgundy they can make? By how many acres they have?

Maxton granddad’s baby charity hike

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:50:11 GMT

RETIRED scientist Tom Veitch will start to walk the Pennine Way for charity later this month.

Shocked by the ASBO Bambis of Arran

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:46:53 GMT

I’m just back from a week on Arran and I’m pleased to report that the snow has gone and the power is back on.

New booklet on Abbotsford walks

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:46:52 GMT

WALKS around Abbotsford are the latest subject of the council’s paths booklets series.

The horrific tale of Patterdale Jock, the giant turkey slayer

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:34:36 GMT

WHAT do you think is the biggest killer of poultry? Foxes? Avian ’flu? Wile E. Coyote? Nope. Round our way it’s Jock, the Patterdale terrier.

Horse whisperer Richard Maxwell in Borders for only Scottish date this year

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:34:36 GMT

Horse behaviourist Richard Maxwell will give his only demonstration in Scotland this year in the Borders.

Down Loch Ness and up Ben Nevis in memory of a friend

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:34:35 GMT

JEDBURGH firefighter Carl Stephenson is kayaking, running up Ben Nevis and cycling with friends and colleagues to raise money for charity.

A veritable feathered feast was found in my square of the country

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:34:34 GMT

It’s not often I’m up before the sun, but last Thursday morning was just such an occasion. Every year I take part in the Breeding Bird Survey, which entails visiting the same 1km square during the bird breeding season and following the same route across it in two different directions, logging all the birds seen or heard on the way.

Country diary

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:34:27 GMT

SATURDAY, MAY 11 – Wildlife Photography River Walk along the Tweed at Cardrona (KLAWED Project):

Mammal ID day at Devil’s Beef Tub

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:34:26 GMT

IF YOU don’t know your pygmy shrew from any other small furry, Borders Forest Trust’s (BFT) Mammal ID day could be a diary date.

Call out for budding greenwood workers

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:30:05 GMT

THE LAST weekend of May is Greenwood Weekend at Scotland’s first community woodland between Lauder and Galashiels.

Langholm gears up for first adventure festival

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:37:25 GMT

One walk is sold out and the trail run and half marathon are booking up fast in Langholm’s first outdoors festival next month.

Rising from the ashes like a Phoenix

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:37:14 GMT

Promise I’ll move on to odd-shaped veg or how to strip down and rebuild an old Fergie tractor next week. This week it’s chickens again.

‘Masterplan’ views sought for Glentress

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:37:11 GMT

Forestry Commission Scotland (FCS) has announced it needs a masterplan to develop Glentress.