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
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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 results of the 2023 RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch have the House Sparrow at number one, the commonest bird in UK gardens for the 20th consecutive year. The results for Sidmouth gardens compiled for the Sid Valley Biodiversity Group by Charles Sinclair placed itRead More
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I was fortunate that my childhood in the 1960’s and 70’s was spent living on a small “mixed” farm (cattle – dairy and beef, sheep, pigs, poultry and arable), surrounded by many other similar small farms. I developed an interest, appreciation and understanding ofRead More
Leave a comment The Maps On This Page Are Of RSPB Reserves In East Devon & The Exe Estuary. The Reserves Are Marked In Red. Home of everything from migrating Nightjars and waders to stay at home Dartford Warblers. The first Map is of RSPB Reserves inRead More
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Leave a comment We’ve all heard about the one that got away. It’s always a huge fish. The fish in this video is huge … but did it get away? I took this video with a handheld phone camera whilst walking … so in places it’s shakyRead More
Leave a comment Tune in to birds – NOW FULLY BOOKED Tune in to birds – Now Fully Booked Date Saturday 10 June Time 08:00-9:30 Starting point Five-barred gate at entrance to The Knapp nature reserve on Station Road, Sidmouth. ///flank.gasp.funds Free, unlimited parking available on road.Read More
Leave a comment A new year and a bit of sunshine here today after several grey days. The other thing that has brought us a bit of brightness is the unveiling of our new logo. Designed by SVBG steering group member, Charles Sinclair, the kingfisher seems toRead More
Leave a comment THE BIG GARDEN BIRDWATCH 2021 – A LOCAL PERSPECTIVE ED DOLPHIN FOR THE SID VALLEY BIODIVERSITY GROUP 1. INTRODUCTION The RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch (BGB) is one of the largest citizen science projects in the world. For the last 40 years, thousands ofRead More
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