News and announcements of interest to CVWG members
The Woodland Trust are not able to provide a speaker as planned, unfortunately, and it has not been possible to find a replacement external speaker. However, Helena Crouch, the North Somerset Recorder for Flora, has very kindly agreed to provide us with a talk on Flora of the Cam Valley. Thanks to Helena, for coming to the rescue!
Coffee & cake from 7.30pm, talk at 8pm.
Venue: SWALLOW, Old Engine House, Old Pit Road, Midsomer Norton, BA3 4BQ
The Cam Valley Wildlife Group Events Programme for September 2018 to March 2019 is now available on our website.
An updated membership form is available on our website homepage for download
Interested in evening botany walks? We have a varied programme of weekly walks , available on our website to view or download.
The Cam Valley Wildlife Group Winter newsletter 2018 is out and the Autumn 2017 newsletter is now available on our website.
Why not check out the natural history books for sale in our Spring newsletter, just posted? The list includes “collectables”. Proceeds go to the group.
Members of Cam Valley Wildlife Group had a trip out of the area on Sunday 30 April to visit the beautiful Langford Lakes nature reserve in the Wylye Valley near Warminster. For a short report and lovely photos of Great crested grebes, please visit our Events page.
The 2017 CVWG Botany Walks programme is now available via our Events page. The first walk of the season is in Radstock at Waterside. Park in Radstock and meet at St Nicholas Church (ST688546) for a short walk beside the stream. Start time 7 pm. Lift share is encouraged and all are welcome. Contact details are on the programme.
We have added a Q&A category to our message board, so if you want to ask a question there are two options:
Use the contact page to send a question for posting on the message board
Become a Contributor on our website
Contributors can write a message for any of our message board pages. Messages will go through a moderation process before posting. If you want to become a contributor, please ask for an invite through our contact page.
The CVWG Members’ plants and fungi gallery now has photos of some flora and one fungus. If you have some to send in, please use the contact page.
There will be a CVWG stall at the 2017 Seedy Saturday event on 11th March at the Conygre Hall, Timsbury, 10.00 am to 2.00 pm – seed swap, potato day and green fair. For details of the event, go to http://www.seedysaturday.org.uk
The Botany Drinks venue has been moved from the Somerset Wagon to the White Post, near Stratton-on-the-Fosse. The time is the same – 7pm
The first sightings reports have come in! Andre has sent in some interesting ones, which are posted on the Sightings page. This is an interim measure while we look at setting up a system that members can use to post information themselves, by category. If you are interested in posting info and/or have suggestions for categories (e.g. Sightings!), please let us know via the Contact page.
Phil Hall will be giving a talk about his quest to photograph all 58 breeding butterfly species in the UK – see Events page
Andre asks, “Is anyone seeing large numbers of starlings in the area?”
How about checking out the new members’ photos in the CVWG Insects and Birds Galleries?
Thanks go to Telva for setting us up a Facebook page. Just click on the Facebook icon at the top right hand corner (in the indigo-violet bar) and you’ll get there… or use the url below. Has anyone got photos of a recent CVWG event to share?
https://www.facebook.com/Cam-Valley-Wildlife-Group-1831149240499867/
For anyone who is concerned about the various options on offer when doing a search for our new site, you are looking for the option with our full name, with the address https://cvwg.org.uk/, and the search text under it of “Cam Valley Wildlife Group official website..information about the group..local wildlife conservation projects..recording..conservation work..events to Feb 2017.“
Hello and welcome.
This website is under development, so please bear with us whilst we get it populated with additional material and add functions. What do you think of it so far? What do you like about it? Have you any suggestions for improvements?
