Tag: Cornwall
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Lizard Wildlife Walk
This event is organised by Lizard National Trust. For full details, see their website at https://bit.ly/3QATfHL Everyone is welcome to join us for a wildlife walk at Lizard Point, taking […]
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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 […]
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Butterfly Field Trip to Goonhilly Downs
This event is organised by the Cornwall Branch of Butterfly Conservation (CBC) in partnership with The Lizard’s Natural England (NE) team. Please check CBC’s website and social media for more […]
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Riverfly Stream Testing Training Day
This event is organised by Wildlife Groundswell. Can you volunteer once a month? Monitoring riverflies reveals the health of our waterways and helps detect pollution. If you become a riverfly […]
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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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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