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A Lazy Wind and Lots More Water You know a lazy wind? It can’t be bothered to go round you so it goes straight through you instead. This dreich February morning felt colder than the two degrees our party of 10 had been promised as t...

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Spurrells Wood Nest Box Work Party The Spurrell's Wood nest boxes have been monitored for two years (2024 and 2025), nest records submitted to the British Trust for Ornithology, chicks ringed and a few Great Tits have had faecal sample...

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Half a work party is better than no work party! Under leaden skies and with the prospect of heavy rain, 14 of us gathered at Sustead for the first work party of 2026.  With our leader sunning himself in Australia, John stepped in to give us the pla...

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The sun did shine and hay was made Fourteen volunteers – many of them super-scythers - arrived to help make hay on the Sustead sites on Thursday August 28th. Amongst them was our furthest flung volunteer - Connor from Stafford - and tw...

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BioBlitz on our Western Fringe Following our tried and tested routine, we started with a bat talk & walk at Hindolveston, and a moth trapping session at Wood Norton on the Friday evening. We were joined by three members of the Hind...

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Heads and Tales from the Depths of Stow Heath Another work party, and what a great crowd of enthusiastic volunteers! We were treated to an update by Trevor on all the work that's been done by Dom... continuing our programme of pond restoration he...

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Hunting for Dragons at Stow Heath On Saturday 21st June we held a mini bioblitz at Stow Heath – the first at this relatively new site and an opportunity to establish a biodiversity baseline. On the Friday evening we did a spot of moth...

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Cakeless in Stow Heath It was a lovely summer’s morning when eleven volunteers gathered at Stow Heath for Thursday's working party. Many of us had not visited this site before and so Trevor began the morning taking us aroun...

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Fourteen Stalwarts all in a Row On the morning of June 5th, 14 stalwart volunteers assembled at the Sustead complex to begin preparations for that most important day 72 hours later - the BioBlitz. Anticipating hordes of fascinated m...

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Sustead Common BioBlitz Felbeck Trust held its fourth BioBlitz at Sustead Common over the weekend of June 7th-8th, with 27 people participating. The weather was rather mixed, which impacted on some of the BioBlitz activities...

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National Hedgerow Week National Hedgerow Week is a time to celebrate hedgerows, the often-unsung heroes of the British countryside that form the UK’s largest wildlife habitat.

We work hard maintaining and planting hedges. In National Hedgerow week we encourage our friends and followers to learn more by following the link below...
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A Marshy Work Party at Stow Heath Shortly after arriving to prepare for our corporate work party with the volunteers from Marsh Insurance, Trevor and Ed headed down to the pond area to assess the work to be done, while John and I bega...

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Green Alkanet at Sustead

Springtime Cowslip in Spurrell's Wood

Whan that Aprille … But no showers (or ‘shoures’) today: instead, warm sunshine flowed down on the ten of us who assembled at West Beckham Old Allotments at 9.00, for instructions and encouragement – not that we needed t...

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A reminder of the @norfolknats.bsky.social training workshop on sawflies I'm running on Sun 6th April. It's at Gressenhall (mid Norfolk). We still have a few places left so please get in touch ASAP if you'd like to attend. Will be focused on microscope-based ID to genus level (at least).

Long tailed tit prospecting nest sites on our last work party at Sustead

🦇The East of England Regional Conference will be held on 12 April 2025, at Ely College and online. This one-day event is an opportunity for anyone interested in bats, to spend time together.
Booking deadline for in-person tickets is 28 March. More info: www.bats.org.uk/EastConf

Springtime frog at Sustead

Last talk is tomorrow, will be good...

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