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We thought you might like to hear about Doris the stork who took up residence in Rockland St Mary over the summer (much to the excitement of members of South Yare Wildlife Group!) White Storks had been extinct in Britain as breeding birds since 1416, although, as...

Although it might not sound like a particularly fascinating topic, last February I attended a very interesting conference on road verges held just outside Ipswich at Wherstead Park. Hosted by Suffolk Naturalists Society, there was a myriad of speakers from important...

The South Yare Wildlife Group started the ball rolling towards the establishment of a B-Line, or pollinator corridor, along the Chet Valley by organising the Buglife talk at the Poringland Community Centre in March 2019. Paul Hetherington of Buglife dealt with the...

The “Action on Climate Change” open discussion held at the George & Dragon pub in Thurton, was a slightly different approach to a South Yare Wildlife Group meeting. Over 20 of us introduced themselves and shared what we were keen to get out of the meeting and...

At our January event Nick Acheson, Norfolk Wildlife Trust Ambassador and conservation evangelist, held almost 80 of us totally captivated by his breadth of knowledge and passion for the future of Norfolk’s wildlife. Norfolk born and bred, Nick drew on his...

SWYG’s winter walk returned to Surlingham Church Marsh this year. Thirty two people booked in for it and we were blessed with mostly dry weather, thankfully the shower midway along the walk was short lived! We managed to start a little after 2 pm and decided to...

Over 40 South Yare Wildlife Group members attended a fascinating talk by David White from the BTO’s Garden Ecology team at Poringland Community Centre on 14 October. Rodney Aldis introduced the evening, explaining why gardens are the focus of SYWG’s Wild...

Earlier this month we were very pleased to welcome Martin Lines, co-founder and Chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN), as our speaker on a very important topic – ‘The Future of Farming and Conservation’. I think I can safely say...

Read our guide to helping winter wildlife.

SYWG had a very successful debut at the Poringland Fete in mid July after the Parish Council had invited us to attend after our successful Buglife talk in March. We had two activities we could use that required little in new development – the Pollinator Quiz and...