Tag: Cornwall

  • Lizard Walks: Lizard Village to Kynance

    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…

  • Lizard Walks: Lizard Village and Church Cove

    Lizard Walks: Lizard Village and Church Cove

    This event is organised by Lizard National Trust. We will be starting at Lizard Village Green and taking in Church Cove and Bass Point on a circular route of around 5 miles (approx. 3 hours).  We will be taking in the surrounding countryside and dramatic coastline including Housel Bay, with the opportunity to spot seals…

  • Lizard Walks: Coverack

    Lizard Walks: Coverack

    This event is organised by Lizard National Trust. In this walk we will be slightly upping the pace and walking a little further than the usual social walks.  Everyone is welcome to join us for this walk, starting at Coverack and taking in Chynalls Point and Black Head on a circular route of around 4.5…

  • Ogor Dour Walk

    Ogor Dour Walk

    This event is organised by Lizard National Trust. Everyone is welcome to join us for a social walk starting at Teneriffe Farm Campsite, taking in the surrounding countryside, wildlife and dramatic coastline along the south west coast path. With stories of soap stone, shipwrecks and wildlife there is much to see on this walk.  The…

  • Lizard Wildlife Walk

    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…

  • Lizard Wildlife Walk

    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…

  • Holly Blue

    Holly Blue

    The pretty Holly Blue is a butterfly of early spring and late summer. Photo: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt

  • Soil Circus by Maya Ronchetti

    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…

  • Moth Event and Butterfly Walk at Windmill Farm

    Moth Event and Butterfly Walk at Windmill Farm

    This event is organised by Cornwall Butterfly Conservation. Please check their website (https://www.cornwall-butterfly-conservation.org.uk/events.html) and social media for more information, including contact details; it is important to check the website and social media before an event in case of cancellation or changes, such as due to weather. Dougy Wright, CWT volunteer warden, will introduce the moths…

  • Reawakening The Lizard

    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,…

  • Historic bones and teeth discovered at Lizard Point

    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,…

  • Swift

    Swift

    Those screaming cries, that wheeling flight – the sound and sight of summer. Photo: © Alexis Lours, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  • Silver-studded Blue

    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

  • Brimstone

    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 

  • Mistletoe

    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

  • Common Mussel

    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