Dear South West volunteers We hope this newsletter finds you well and you have managed to stay safe and healthy. 2020 has obviously proved to be a challenge owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, with much of our outdoors and face to face volunteering suspended and many...
Did you know that when we go to sleep another world awakens? When you visit the East Dartmoor National Nature Reserve in the daytime, you can see many different bird species quite easily. Mammals are generally harder to spot because most are nocturnal, meaning they only...
Ah, trees. They are why we are all here (quite literally!). They give us air to breathe, shelter from the rain, a place to play, a place for peace. Whatever their size or shape, we adore them - the feel of the bark underneath our...
For many of us, the start of August marks the arrival of high summer, bringing long hot days and balmy nights and summer holidays! For most species of birds, it is a time of change. Both resident and migrant, the breeding season is all but...
We would love to hear your stories on how you managed to connect with nature during lockdown. Please send over any photos with either a few paragraphs or a full article to amandabealing@woodlandtrust.org.uk and then I can publish the South West Stories on Whittle. So this...
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...