Promoting & Enhancing The Natural Beauty of the Sid Valley
Most people know that Swallows, Swifts and House Martins are summer visitors that fly back to Africa to escape our winter. They have to because we do not have enough of their food insects flying in the winter. Flying south to escape our winterRead More
Leave a comment In a world that’s constantly evolving, preserving and nurturing local biodiversity has become more important than ever. Biodiversity, the variety of life forms within an ecosystem, is not just a source of beauty, but also a key pillar for the health and sustainability ofRead More
Leave a comment The Big Butterfly Count is a citizen science project organised by Butterfly Conservation for the last week of July and the first week of August each year. Over the last two weeks nature lovers all over the country have been taking part. On aRead More
Leave a comment The Results Of Years Of Hard Work By SVBG Members Has Been Compressed Into A Concise & Powerful Display For An AONB Exhibition At Kennaway House Below is a copy of the text on the display board … but to see photos of theRead More
Leave a comment Butterflies are among the most loved members of our wildlife, brightening summer days as they flutter and float around like delicate jewels. There is a butterfly for every colour of the spectrum plus white and brown so dark it might be called black. EveryRead More
Leave a comment Many people are keen to make a space for nature in their garden. One of the best things you can do is make sure you have some open still water somewhere. Not only frogs, toads and newts, but dragonflies and damsel flies and manyRead More
Leave a comment Have you noticed the Holly trees in the churchyard and Blackmore Garden? They are overloaded with bright red berries. It is a super year for some tree fruits, traditionally called a mast year from the old term for tree fruits that fattened pigs let into the forest. Read More
Leave a comment Horse Chestnut Leaf Miner Our conker trees are being devoured from the inside, their leaves are being mined, but they don’t mind. This year’s hot dry summer has caused some of our trees to turn brown as if there is an early autumn, butRead More
Leave a comment In this video Ed Dolphin discusses Phycomania and the Queen of Seaweed, phycologist Amelia Griffiths.
Leave a comment You May Recall The Name W H Cullen. He compiled the Flora Sidostiensis That The SVBG Used as a Baseline in our 2021 Flowering Herbaceous Survey. Here is Information On Cullen’s Background Written by John Tench William Henry Cullen was born in on 23 JanuaryRead More
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