Promoting & Enhancing The Natural Beauty of the Sid Valley
Stantyway Farm is a 300 acre organic mixed farm on the Jurassic Coast of East Devon producing wheat, oats, beans, quinoa, grass, lucerne and clover to sell to specialist organic markets or to feed to their suckler cows and their calves. It is theRead More
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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 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 We Want A Biodiverse Community Food Forest At Sidford & That Means Including A Butterfly Garden. But How To Build A Butterfly Garden? Here Are Our Answers. One of the assets we found when we first looked at the food forest site were twoRead More
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From the end of July into the beginning of August, volunteers were out and about in the most fantastic weather, counting the butterflies in the Sid Valley. This was all part of Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count. We now have three years of dataRead More
Leave a comment Introduction The butterfly survey in the Sid Valley took place from the 16th of July 2021 to the 8th of August 2021 to run concur- rently with Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count (BBC). Each survey is formatted to run for 15 minutes and usesRead More
Leave a comment Silver-washed Fritillary The Silver-washed Fritillary is our largest fritillary and the orange-hued male is often seen flying in woodland glades, though this one was filmed along the tree-lined edge of the Snodbrook some distance from woods. The silver-washed in the name refers toRead More
Leave a comment You can read and download the Sid Valley 2020 Butterfly Report via the link below and join the chat room with comments and highlights about this season’s count. Butterfly Report, Aug 2020
Leave a comment As Rodgers and Hammerstein said, June is busting out all over, or it was for the volunteers of the Sid Valley Biodiversity Group as they carried on their project recording the wild flowers in the valley. The volunteers note which wild flowers they seeRead More
Leave a comment An orangetip butterfly feeds on garlic mustard
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