There was a real touch of spring in the air at West Beckham Old Allotments (WBOA) as 21 volunteers turned up to tackle a variety of tasks – many more and we will need a larger carpark! After the usual...

You know a lazy wind? It can’t be bothered to go round you so it goes straight through you instead. This dreich February morning felt colder than the two degrees our party of 10 had been promised as t...

The Spurrell's Wood nest boxes have been monitored for two years (2024 and 2025), nest records submitted to the British Trust for Ornithology, chicks ringed and a few Great Tits have had faecal sample...

Under leaden skies and with the prospect of heavy rain, 14 of us gathered at Sustead for the first work party of 2026.  With our leader sunning himself in Australia, John stepped in to give us the pla...

Fourteen volunteers – many of them super-scythers - arrived to help make hay on the Sustead sites on Thursday August 28th. Amongst them was our furthest flung volunteer - Connor from Stafford - and tw...

Following our tried and tested routine, we started with a bat talk & walk at Hindolveston, and a moth trapping session at Wood Norton on the Friday evening. We were joined by three members of the Hind...

Another work party, and what a great crowd of enthusiastic volunteers! We were treated to an update by Trevor on all the work that's been done by Dom... continuing our programme of pond restoration he...

On Saturday 21st June we held a mini bioblitz at Stow Heath – the first at this relatively new site and an opportunity to establish a biodiversity baseline. On the Friday evening we did a spot of moth...

It was a lovely summer’s morning when eleven volunteers gathered at Stow Heath for Thursday's working party. Many of us had not visited this site before and so Trevor began the morning taking us aroun...

On the morning of June 5th, 14 stalwart volunteers assembled at the Sustead complex to begin preparations for that most important day 72 hours later - the BioBlitz. Anticipating hordes of fascinated m...

Felbeck Trust held its fourth BioBlitz at Sustead Common over the weekend of June 7th-8th, with 27 people participating. The weather was rather mixed, which impacted on some of the BioBlitz activities...

National Hedgerow Week is a time to celebrate hedgerows, the often-unsung heroes of the British countryside that form the UK’s largest wildlife habitat.

Shortly after arriving to prepare for our corporate work party with the volunteers from Marsh Insurance, Trevor and Ed headed down to the pond area to assess the work to be done, while John and I bega...

But no showers (or ‘shoures’) today: instead, warm sunshine flowed down on the ten of us who assembled at West Beckham Old Allotments at 9.00, for instructions and encouragement – not that we needed t...