Promoting & Enhancing The Natural Beauty of the Sid Valley
Two Bird Surveys In One This month you can spend an hour listing the birds visiting your garden and contribute the results to two surveys. It’s on January 28-30 and takes an hour watching your garden. Why not grab a coffee, watch the birds,Read More
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The Donkey Sanctuary is best known for its work caring for donkeys and mules in the UK and internationally. The Sanctuary owns several farms and centres in the UK, providing homes to nearly 3,000 donkeys, including six farms in Devon of which three fallRead More
1 response A new year and a bit of sunshine here today after several grey days. The other thing that has brought us a bit of brightness is the unveiling of our new logo. Designed by SVBG steering group member, Charles Sinclair, the kingfisher seems toRead More
Leave a comment In an interview this morning, staff at The Donkey Sanctuary Revealed that a second rare fungus has been discovered at one of The Donkey Sanctuary premises near Sidmouth. Following on from the recent discovery of violet coral fungi on one of the charitiesRead More
2 responses THE BIG GARDEN BIRDWATCH 2021 – A LOCAL PERSPECTIVE ED DOLPHIN FOR THE SID VALLEY BIODIVERSITY GROUP 1. INTRODUCTION The RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch (BGB) is one of the largest citizen science projects in the world. For the last 40 years, thousands ofRead More
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A year-long survey of the valley’s wild flowers has found over 400 different species, many of them recorded 170 years ago by a local doctor and amateur botanist. As part of the Biodiversity Group’s project to catalogue the area’s wildlife, a group of volunteersRead More
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