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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
    • 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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    • Wildlife Volunteering Opportunities in the Sid Valley 
    • Apprentice Ecology and Conservation Officer
    • Principal Ecologist
    • Botanist
    • Area Ranger
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Flying South For Winter

On September 15, 2023 By Ed Dolphin
  • Birds

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

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How Architecture Can Support Local Biodiversity? 

On September 11, 2023 By Ed Dolphin
  • Biodiversity

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

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Big Butterfly Count 2023 

On August 13, 2023 By Ed Dolphin
  • Butterflies

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

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Floral Diversity In The Sid Valley

On July 18, 2023 By Ed Dolphin
  • Herbaceous survey

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

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Counting Butterflies

On July 14, 2023 By Ed Dolphin
  • Herald Article

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

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A Pond In Every Garden Would Be Good For Wildlife

On February 1, 2023 By Ed Dolphin
  • Biodiversity

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

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A Bumper Year

On November 12, 2022 By Ed Dolphin
  • Herald Article

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

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Horse Chestnut Leaf Miner

On September 9, 2022 By Ed Dolphin
  • Herald Article

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

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Phycomania & Phycologist Amelia Griffiths

On May 17, 2022 By Ed Dolphin
  • Animals

In this video Ed Dolphin discusses Phycomania and the Queen of Seaweed, phycologist Amelia Griffiths.

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William Henry Cullen, author of Flora Sidostiensis

On March 23, 2022 By Ed Dolphin
  • Wildflowers

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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