by Erin McDaid, Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust | Sep 16, 2022 | Sherwood, Wildlife
Whilst the seasons are ever changing, September is often a month when change is laid out before us. After our extreme summer, some changes, such as leaves turning from green to gold, are likely to be much accelerated. As well as leaf fall, September usually sees the...
by Gainsborough Area Group of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust | Sep 15, 2022 | Gainsborough, Wildlife
There is a change of venue for the indoor meetings of the Gainsborough Area Group of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust. Lectures start at 7.30pm and will take place at St Stephen’s Methodist Church, Gainsborough DN21 2DP. Parking is available in Roseway car park. The...
by North Notts Local Group of Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust | Sep 6, 2022 | Retford, Wildlife
This season’s series of talks organised by the North Notts Local Group of Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust begins with a favourite speaker: Dr David Fox, reflecting on the famous film ‘Kes’. The book, A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines, tells the story of a young boy...
by North Notts Local Group of Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust | Sep 6, 2022 | Wildlife, Worksop
This season’s series of talks organised by the North Notts Local Group of Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust begins with a favourite speaker: Dr David Fox, reflecting on the famous film ‘Kes’. The book, A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines, tells the story of a young boy...
by Bob Murray, Chair of The Friends of Sherwood Heath | Aug 27, 2022 | Environment, Sherwood, Wildlife
Brown Hawker (Aeshna grandis), Paul Ritchie Very few insects have been the subject of a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson and at the same time the subject of a school of haiku poets in Japan. Tennyson described seeing a dragonfly shedding its outer skin as ‘An inner...
by Community Focus | Aug 20, 2022 | Community Focus, Retford, Wildlife
In the third in our Wildlife Heroes series of people who do more than most to protect and monitor our precious wildlife, we meet Brian Horne. “Daneshill Lakes Nature Reserve is a beautiful place near Torworth railway crossing. It’s owned by Nottinghamshire County...
