Promoting & Enhancing The Natural Beauty of the Sid Valley
Having looked at the forecast, Ed will be taking a gentle stroll for the New Year Flower Hunt from 11.00 this Sunday. The mild weather means we have a good chance of beating last year’s 15 species in flower. He will be starting at theRead More
Leave a comment 2024 Has Seen A Lot Of River Activity As The River Sid Catchment Group Goes From Strength to Strength. The highlight has been the publication of the Sid Catchment Plan which followed extensive poblic consultation with many local groups, organisations and residents. Monitoring ofRead More
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Autumn storms can be very unpleasant, but they can also give us clues to what is living in the waters off our shore. One aftermath of a storm is the collection of marine material washed up to the strand line at the peak ofRead More
Leave a comment The Sid Valley Biodiversity Group Encourages People To Take Part In Citizen Science Projects Across The Year, Next Week It Is The Turn Of The BSBI New Year Plant Hunt. What Better Way Is There To Recover From Christmas Than Taking A Walk AndRead More
Leave a comment Most of our wildlife isn’t truly wild, the populations of our wild flowers, insects, birds and others have adapted over the last four thousand years to live in the countryside managed by humans. There is hardly any truly wild space in Britain, even DartmoorRead More
Leave a comment Last week we had hibernating snails and so it was a happy coincidence that one of the Biodiversity Group volunteers found a sleeping dormouse in his woodland garden at the weekend. The little ball of orange fur was curled up, not in aRead More
Leave a comment It is that time of year when many animals settle down to hibernate through winter, but not just fluffy dormice and not so fluffy hedgehogs. Garden snails hibernate, but they like company as they sleep. Garden snails sleep in a hibernaculum, a secluded spaceRead More
Leave a comment A new film documenting a collaborative project for all to enjoy and to support the careful stewardship of our river and its biodiversity, is shared. A short film telling the story of the Riverside Walkway Revitalised project is available to view to bring attentionRead More
Leave a comment Now that winter has finally arrived be ready to see extra winter visitors to your bird feeders. Common birds such as the blackbird arrive in suburban gardens in greater numbers during the winter. I always thought that these were countryside birds coming into town because of easier foodand IRead More
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