in search of Fingle’s dormice, the footprint tracking study in Hall’s Cleave has continued through June and into July. We’ve had some good results so far this spring, demonstrating how these mini acrobats move around to find food through the season, and as their diet...
The Natural History Consortium are after people’s views on their visions for the future they have just launched a two week push to encourage people to send us their visions for the future of the environment in the form of a ‘postcard from the future’....
The owners of the land north of Bristol have been well documented since before the time of King Offa. These have included the latter’s henchman Aethelmund, Geoffrey de Montbray, the Norman Bishop of Coutances, the Bishops of Worcester and, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, ...
Having had over 4 inches of rain in June our concerns that some of our newer apple trees in the beehive area were under stress are now over. Everything is looking very green and healthy. Our leaflets continue to fly out of the boxes -...
As the years pass, gradual changes in the landscape may go unnoticed but, sometimes, as we walk through the woods, we may dig deep into the recesses of our memories to recall what it was like before the Fingle Woods restoration began. Perhaps we try...
A small herd of cows is going to be tagged with GPS in a new scheme by the Woodland Trust to track their “moovements” and how they can boost diversity. Six Dexter cows started roaming Avon Valley Woods at the weekend. At least one of these...
Thanks to our members and supporters we have been able to buy our part of Ausewell Woods, joining once again with the National Trust, to manage the valuable woodland habitat and refuge for wildlife. Ausewell is described as a lost world, a refuge for increasing rare and...
Each night a sleepy corner of the country is being turned into a march of the amphibians as hundreds of toads and newts make a perilous journey across a busy road to breed. This mass migration to the Woodland Trust owned Haddon Wood, near Castle Carey,...
On a rare dry Dartmoor day, the Timber! celebration took place, once again, at Pullabrook Wood in the Bovey Valley. As before, it was hosted by the Woodland Trust and Natural England but, this year, recent storms and floods have left the woods feeling a...
Following the volunteer signs through Fingle Woods felt like a treasure hunt. As I went past each yellow sign that was propped up against a tree and safely pinned down with a rock or clod of mud, I became excited about what I was going...