by South Yare Wildlife Group | Dec 11, 2018 | Main Blog
The headcount was 33 as we left New Inn Hill, Rockland St Mary at 1pm, for our 5.5 mile Winter Wander. We walked via the Hellington & Rockland St Mary Community Reserve crossing the Hellington Beck en route. After Kaarin thieved (collected) beautiful wood blewitt...
by South Yare Wildlife Group | Nov 21, 2018 | Main Blog
At our November meeting, Matt Jones, Living Landscape Officer from the Norfolk Wildlife Trust talked about the Trust’s approach to landscape-scale conservation. In recent years there has been an increasing recognition that our wildlife cannot be adequately...
by South Yare Wildlife Group | Nov 1, 2018 | Main Blog
A great turnout at our Hedgehog event on a sunny Saturday in October half term showed just how much we love hedgehogs! 45 adults and 15 children enjoyed a very informative talk from Shawn Mills of the Attleborough Hedgehog Rescue, who took us through the year in the...
by South Yare Wildlife Group | Oct 1, 2018 | Main Blog
Participants were introduced the underwater world of aquatic invertebrates and plants at Wheatfen on Sunday 23rd September. As ponds are one of the five key Wild Patch habitats, this workshop built upon the pond restoration event held last year. We looked at different...
by South Yare Wildlife Group | Sep 5, 2018 | Main Blog
About 35 of us gathered at the top of New Inn Hill, Rockland St Mary, on a sunny and breezy Saturday afternoon for the four-mile walk. After a brief introduction and Health & Safety talk we set off and wandered along footpaths and quiet lanes around Claxton,...
by South Yare Wildlife Group | Sep 1, 2018 | Main Blog
Norfolk Homes has given the village of Poringland 13 acres of land just behind the Community Centre. The Parish Council has held public consultations on how to use this land and the SWYG has put in two submissions. The first was for a wildlife garden to be included...
