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Sid Valley Biodiversity Group

Sid Valley Biodiversity Group

Promoting & Enhancing The Natural Beauty of the Sid Valley

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    • Our Constitution
    • Our Plan
    • Declaration of Interests
    • Safeguarding Policy
    • Sid Valley Biodiversity Group submission to the draft East Devon Local Plan
  • River Sid
    • Mapping the River Sid
    • Report On The Water Quality Of The River Sid, Its Tributaries And Bickwell Brook.
    • Sid Valley Water Quality Monitoring Points
    • West Country Rivers League Table 2022.
    • Sid Valley Water Quality Monitoring Points
    • Placating the Sid
    • Advisory Visit to the River Sid
      • Upstream Extension Of Sid Advisory Visit
    • Sid Vale Living Rivers Project 2013-14
  • Surveys
  • Nature Networks
    • Sid Valley Environmental & Biodiversity Sites
      • AONB Location Maps
      • Sidmouth Public Green Spaces
      • RSPB Reserves Around Sid Valley & Exe Estuary
      • Mapping Resources
    • Sidmouth Community Food Forest
    • Nature Networks – The Knapp, Sidmouth
    • Knapp
    • Lower Knapp Pond
      • Lower Knapp Pond History
      • Wasps: a tale without a sting.
      • Lesser Celandine: Botanical name Ficaria verna
      • Hogweed
      • Meadowsweet
      • Lady’s Smock
      • The Whirligig Beetle
    • Sid Valley Meadows
    • Life on the Verge
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        • Events Calendar
      • Contributors
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    • Wildlife Volunteering Opportunities in the Sid Valley 
    • Apprentice Ecology and Conservation Officer
    • Principal Ecologist
    • Botanist
    • Area Ranger
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Month: July 2021

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What will you find in this year’s butterfly count?

On July 31, 2021 By Stefan Drew
  • Biodiversity
  • Herald Article

Last week during the heatwave we saw a wonderful flush of butterflies emerging in the sunny weather.  While walking on Soldiers Hill, Meadow Brown butterflies were flying all around. It is a memorable experience. We are in the middle of The Big Butterfly CountRead More

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Silver-washed Fritillary Video

On July 30, 2021 By Stefan Drew
  • Butterflies
  • Video

Silver-washed Fritillary   The Silver-washed Fritillary is our largest fritillary and the orange-hued male is often seen flying in woodland glades, though this one was filmed along the tree-lined edge of the Snodbrook some distance from woods. The silver-washed in the name refers toRead More

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Life in the Meadow: Moths

On July 28, 2021 By Stefan Drew
  • Moths
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The Big Butterfly Count

On July 20, 2021 By Stefan Drew
  • Butterflies

You can read and download the Sid Valley 2020 Butterfly Report via the link below and join the chat room with comments and highlights about this season’s count. Butterfly Report, Aug 2020

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Westcountry Rivers Trust Event, July 2021

On July 19, 2021 By Stefan Drew
  • Rivers
  • Video

This Westcountry Rivers Trust Event Took Place in July 2021

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Volunteers hopeful for butterfly population recovery

On July 19, 2021 By Stefan Drew
  • Butterflies
  • Herald Article

As Rodgers and Hammerstein said, June is busting out all over, or it was for the volunteers of the Sid Valley Biodiversity Group as they carried on their project recording the wild flowers in the valley.  The volunteers note which wild flowers they seeRead More

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Dragonfly Week 2021

On July 16, 2021 By Stefan Drew
  • Dragonfly

It’s National Dragonfly Week 2021    Theres more information if you follow the link at the bottom of the page but if you want to admire and learn about dragonflies here’s a video from the British Butterfly Society         https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/event/dragonfly-week-2021/  

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Life in the Meadow: Common Birds

On July 15, 2021 By Stefan Drew
  • Biodiversity
  • Birds
  • Meadows
  • Video

Meadows Attract Many Birds As This Video Shows. From Mistle Thrushes & Blackcaps to Spotted Flycatchers. And let’s not forget Green Woodpeckers, Skylarks, Goldinches and myriad other birds.  

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Dipper in the Sid valley

On July 11, 2021 By Stefan Drew
  • Birds
  • Rivers
  • Video

A dipper preens and cleans. The video was filmed in the Sid valley, on a tributary of the river Sid.

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Multiple pollinators visit Daucus carrota flower head in a few seconds.

On July 10, 2021 By Stefan Drew
  • Bees
  • Insects
  • Wildflowers

Some people tell me my garden is untidy, other love the informality and wild flower  meadow that buzzes with bees. How many pollinators can you count on this wild carrot in just 30 seconds  

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