Tag: Cornwall
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Lizard Walks: Lizard Village to Kynance
This event is organised by Lizard National Trust. We will be starting at Lizard Village Green and taking in Kynance and Lizard Point on a circular route of around 4 miles (approx. 2.5 hours). We will be taking in the surrounding countryside and dramatic coastline including Lizard Point, with the opportunity to spot seals and…
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Lizard Wildlife Walk
This event is organised by Lizard National Trust. Everyone is welcome to join us for a wildlife walk at Lizard Point, taking in the surrounding countryside and dramatic coastline, including the Wildlife Watchpoint and the opportunity to spot seals and choughs. The walk is approximately two miles and led by volunteer walk leaders, offering the…
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Holly Blue
The pretty Holly Blue is a butterfly of early spring and late summer. Photo: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt
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Soil Circus by Maya Ronchetti
This exhibition is organised by Penrose National Trust. Please see their website for more details: https://bit.ly/4t73HFj Maya is a textiles and installation artist whose work explores the many ways people have connected with nature in the UK, drawing on cultural, historical and traditional stories, as well as more complex relationships with the natural world. For…
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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 most ambitious project to date! It aspires to restore nature on the Lizard peninsula to create a connected, diverse landscape, rich in plants and animals,…
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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, found a collection of teeth in the ground while exploring Lizard Point in August 2025. He showed them to Wildlife Watchpoint volunteer Ken Wallace who,…
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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 emerge in June. 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 winter, hanging from the bare branches of the trees on which it is partly parasitic. Photo: Amanda Scott
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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: Amanda Scott
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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. Although noticeable we were unable to get to the bottom of the issue then. However, this year the browning leaves have returned with a vengeance…
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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 that we had been successfully awarded Species Recovery Programme (SRP) funding to continue our Back to the Future Lizard SRP Project into a second year. This funding…
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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
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Nature recovery on The Lizard
The following is the text of a National Trust press release, issued on 27/3/2024, reporting on a landscape-scale project to conserve rare species on The Lizard, funded by Natural England’s Species Recovery Programme. Nature recovery on the Lizard is working from the ground up Down on the Lizard, in deepest Cornwall, a landscape-scale coastal project…
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Update February 2024: Back to the future: restoring threatened metapopulations on the Lizard Peninsula
A progress update on The Lizard’s Species Recovery Programme-funded projectFebruary 2024 Over the winter period, the focus of our Species Recovery Programme within The Lizard NNR, Back to the Future: restoring threatened metapopulations on the Lizard Peninsula, has been habitat management works. This follows completion of various vegetation, vascular plant, lichen and bryophyte surveys that have been…