Promoting & Enhancing The Natural Beauty of the Sid Valley
Our hedgerows are adorned with many large white trumpets at this time of year, these beautiful flowers will be from one of our Bindweeds. They are cursed by gardeners and farmers because of their tenacity, they are very difficult to get rid of andRead More
Leave a comment The annual citizen science event the Big Butterfly Count has come to the end of its first week and people around the country are reporting concerns about fewer butterflies, but not just butterflies, it appears there are fewer bees and other flying insects. Read More
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From playing in its cool shallows as a child, to witnessing its unforgiving torrents powering through the valley during spate times – the memories and observations of the River Sid from the humans who live nearby are many and varied. The River Sid CatchmentRead More
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The annual Sidmouth Biodiversity Festival ran from Friday 7th to Sunday 9th June 2024 From 15:00-17:00 on Friday, Stephen Blakeway of Vetwork UK, helped by Mick Street of the Sid Valley Biodiversity Group, held an event on Pets, Pesticides and Nature. The event wasRead More
Leave a comment The new season’s adult butterflies are emerging and it is time for the world’s largest citizen science butterfly survey, the Sid Valley Biodiversity Group invites you all to take part in Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count 2024. Now in its fourteenth year, the count involves thousandsRead More
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More info at …… https://bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org/?_cldee=xxowm0S3CMbxhngzsib6isc3ieAvMmEx50HSONcV1jI3CaSNggaqtlC_DYIBAfrU&recipientid=contact-7a5bda8ad1e3ea11a81300224807f96d-656cc28b504c4111ab4fe159aecacf06&esid=845f1fe2-1c2f-ef11-840a-7c1e5209e36b
Leave a comment Seaweed is edible and can shape the local seas, providing a habitat for marine life, subduing rough water and being a potential crop. It could be cropped off our beach with many benefits. Watch this video to see how Alaska is exploring kelp.
Leave a comment There Are Some Gorgeous Beauties Basking On Sidmouth’s Beach Everyday, And They Don’t Mind If You Just Stand And Stare At Them Because They Are Flowers, Yellow Horned-Poppies. We are lucky enough to have an area of our beach set aside for nature, rareRead More
Leave a comment Thanks to Emma Pilgrim for this video.
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