The Cam Valley Wildlife Group Autumn 2023 Newsletter has been posted on our website now that members have been sent the winter newsletter. If you missed the last one, it is available on the back copies page.
Tag: Avon-wildlife; Somerset-wildlife
CVWG updated winter Events programme & Barn Owl Report 2023
The updated Cam Valley Wildlife Group Events programme includes the adition of an introduction to a local re-wilding project at the AGM, a talk by the RSPB that will focus on its work on the Somerset Levels, and our New Year’s Day walk details, which are part of the New Year Plant Hunt organised each year by the Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland. The 2023 Barn Owl Project Report is also now up.
CVWG autumn/winter talks & Aug/Sept stalls
The dates of our talks from October to March are now published on our Events Information page – the details of the talks will be added when confirmed. We have booked stalls at High Littleton Village Day on Monday 28th August (Bank Holiday) and Stratton-on-the Fosse Village Day on Sunday 10th September.
CVWG Newsletter 106 posted
For Nature Notes, Members’ Photos and details of the British Dragonfly Society’s exhibition in Radstock Museum, check out the Cam Valley Wildlife Group Spring 2023 Newsletter at https://cvwg.org.uk/cam-valley-wildlife-group-newsletter/
This and previous newseltters can be downloaded as .pdfs from the Newseltter Back copies page.
Additional CVWG summer events, July 22nd and 23rd
Weekend wildlife recording event in Paulton – daytime and evening sessions
Saturday 22nd July and Sunday 23rd July
We will be looking at the wildlife of a private location in Paulton from 3pm on Saturday. We will also visit Paulton Basin. This will be followed around/after sunset by bat roost emergence and moth trapping at this private home location. The moth trap will be running all night and we will go back on Sunday morning to examine the contents.
Refreshments will be provided for a small charge to cover costs – tea, coffee, squash, cans, biscuits – but if you are planning on being there for the whole event, please do bring food and drink to keep yourself going!
Parking space will be provided and we will also have use of a first-floor loo, accessed by stairs.
This is a ‘no dogs’ event. Guardians are asked to closely watch children as there is a brook with steep banks, nettles, brambles and so on. It is important that when you arrive you speak to Deborah for risk assessment/insurance purposes.
Please contact Deborah Porter for further details and directions at camvalleywildlife@gmail.com or on 01761 435563
Haydon Batch Bioblitz today, 30th April
There is a bioblitz at Haydon Batch today from 11.00 am – 3.00 pm. There will be two guided walks, at 1.00 pm and 2.00 pm, starting from the iNaturalist Gazebo outside Haydon Que Club. These will provide an introduction to plant identification and provide an opportunity to discuss the ecology, culinary use and cultural signinficance of the plants encountered. There will be consultant ecologists on hand to help. An eye will be kept open for birds including returning summer migrants, and also for insects if the weather is kind. There is on-street parking on Kilmersdon Raod and the site is a short walk from the Waterside estate.
CVWG Bowood Woodland Garden trip cancelled
The visit to see the bluebells at Bowood Woodland Garden on 4th May has been cancelled.
CVWG upcoming events for May
Cam Valley Wildlife Group events in May include a visit to Bowood Woodland Garden on Thursday 4th, an Insect walk/survey on the Colliers Way cycle path, Radstock, on Sunday 7th, a visit to Chew Valley and Blagdon Lakes on Saturday13th, an Insect Walk at Silver Street Nature Reserve, Midsomer Norton, on Sunday 21st and our regular events – weekly Botany walks on Wednesday evenings and workdays at Goosard Reserve, Paulton, on the first Saturday of each month. For further details, click here.
CVWG sightings pages reorganised
We have split the sightings into a page for the current year, Sightings 2023, and a Sightings Archive for previous years’ sightings. The parent page (still called Sightings) is still there, but now has links and information. March sightings include Red Kites, Barn Owls, Martins, other birds, lizards and insects.
March Sightings – Cam Valley Wildlife Group
Postings for March this year on the sightings page include two videos of Barn Owls sent in by members. Due to website space, the videos are unlikely to be up permanently, but should be there for a while at least.
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