To increase the range of biodiversity of birds, animals and plants, a small working party of local volunteers have been working together with the aim of increasing the bio-diversity in St Michael’s churchyard. Much of the bramble overgrowth has been removed revealing long lost gravestones, other plants have been
Read more →An adventuresome group of four (that’s us three ‘girls’ and Stanley the dog) had a delightful return trip to Grafham Water yesterday courtesy of the new ‘bus-on-demand’ service named Ting. Once you’ve booked your journey by app or by phone the bus can be tracked in real
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We had a fleeting visitor to Great Gidding on Tuesday, a cormorant, which was first reported outside the end bungalow in Mill Road and then walked and flew down Main Street.
Read more →Two caring Great Gidding residents have been supporting the local hedgehog hospital and have just released two hedgehogs into one of their gardens.
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Next event – Pond life in, on and above & habitat construction Sunday 12th May 2.30pm. The May event focuses on the pond environment (although if it doent rain hard soon we may just be looking at a deep muddy puddle) Always facinating to see an active
Read more →Spring Dragonflies & Damselflies at Jubilee Wood in 2018 During a couple of visits to the Jubilee Wood pond in May 2018, five Odonata species were seen. The first species normally to appear in the year is the Large Red Damselfly. The immature insects venture further afield
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Over the past year Andrew Frost and Barry Dickerson have carried out several moth trapping evenings to record and evaluate the level of moth and butterfly activity in the Jubilee Wood. Andrew has compiled this report on the 2018 findings and the totals thus far since they
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Jubilee Wood in December December can be a difficult month for some people, with the nights at their longest it can seem a dark and challenging time, but if we look at the natural world we might learn a way of seeing things differently.Wandering around the
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Autumn approaches but the wood is still full of leaf even if there are some early signs of yellowing in some of the trees. John Keats’ poem To Autumn with its famous first line: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness always makes me think of cooler mornings
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On Saturday the 29th September we will have a community apple crushing, pulping, squeezing, pressing event using the community pulper and press. Collect your apples and rinse your receptacles. Whether its just juice or cider, the container you use does need sterilising. If you are a serial
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