Tag: Cornwall
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Feathered Lives and Curious Eyes
This event is organised by Wildlife Groundswell. A talk by Ilya Maclean of Exeter University about the history of birds and birdwatching on The Lizard. The event is free, but […]
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Understanding the Misunderstood: Adders
This event is organised by Wildlife Groundswell. It is all about Adders, and involves a walk and talk with Tylan Berry, at Windmill Farm Nature Reserve on The Lizard. You […]
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Ruan Minor Community Litter Pick
This event is organised by Wildlife Groundswell and the Friends of Kennack Sands. Join them for a community clean up. Meet at Ruan Minor Village Hall TR12 7JN – just […]
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Storms and Shipwrecks: a Walk Around Lizard Point
This event is organised by Lizard National Trust. Step into Cornwall’s dramatic maritime past with a guided walk around Lizard Point, Britain’s most southerly mainland point and a notorious graveyard […]
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Lizard Walks: Poldhu and Mullion Cove
This walk is organised by Lizard National Trust. Starting at Poldhu and heading to Mullion Cove, this circular walk will take in countryside and far-reaching views out to sea. This […]
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Reawakening The Lizard
Wildlife Groundswell’s exciting new project: nature recovery across the Lizard peninsula Drawing together and expanding on Wildlife Groundswell’s existing projects, and in collaboration with other organisations, Reawakening The Lizard is our […]
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Reawakening The Lizard: a Celebration of Nature
This event is hosted by Wildlife Groundswell. Save the date for a glorious way to spend the Early May Bank Holiday Monday! Join us for Celebration of Nature – a […]
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Historic bones and teeth discovered at Lizard Point
Excavations have been underway at the National Trust’s Lizard Point in Cornwall after a young visitor found a historic tooth which was identified as human. The discovery Arthur, aged seven, […]
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Swift
Those screaming cries, that wheeling flight – the sound and sight of summer. Photo: © Alexis Lours, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Silver-studded Blue
Silver-studded Blues are on the cusp of emerging. Look for the bright blue males flitting among the heather and grasses. Photo: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt
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Brimstone
Only occasionally recorded on The Lizard and in the west of Cornwall, elsewhere Brimstones are among the first butterflies to be spotted in early spring. Photo: Amanda Scott
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Mistletoe
Mistletoe’s stronghold is central and southern England, but it is scattered locally elsewhere in the south and southwest. Its balls of evergreen leaves and stems are easiest to spot in […]
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Common Mussel
The Common (or Blue) Mussel is a common find on our shores. Look for them attached to rocks in rockpools, and in the zone between high and low tide. Photo: […]
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Willow woes
During the summer of 2023 there was a subtle but significant browning of the leaves on some of the Grey Willow, Salix cinerea, in the willow carr (wet woodland) at Penrose. […]
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Back to the future: restoring threatened metapopulations on the Lizard Peninsula – update, August 2024
A progress update on The Lizard’s Species Recovery Programme-funded project Following our busy winter period of habitat management work across the west of the Lizard, we learnt in March 2024 […]
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Common Bird’s-foot Trefoil
If you ever wondered how Bird’s-foot Trefoil got its name, you have to wait for the seedpods to appear. Photo: Amanda Scott