Tag: The Lizard

  • Riverfly Stream Testing Training Day

    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 monitor, then you make a simple monthly check. Open to anyone. Full training will be given on this day. For details, contact wgstreamtesting@gmail.com, or 07763…

  • Kennack Sands Beach Clean

    Kennack Sands Beach Clean

    The Friends of Kennack Sands run a family-friendly beach clean on the first Sunday of every month, starting at 10am. Everyone is welcome to come along and help keep Kennack Sands beautiful! Bin bags, gloves, litter pickers and hand sanitisers are all provided – just bring yourselves. What3Words location: ///poem.socialite.sped

  • Kennack Sands Beach Clean

    Kennack Sands Beach Clean

    The Friends of Kennack Sands run a family-friendly beach clean on the first Sunday of every month, starting at 10am. Everyone is welcome to come along and help keep Kennack Sands beautiful! Bin bags, gloves, litter pickers and hand sanitisers are all provided – just bring yourselves. What3Words location: ///poem.socialite.sped

  • Kennack Sands Beach Clean

    Kennack Sands Beach Clean

    The Friends of Kennack Sands run a family-friendly beach clean on the first Sunday of every month, starting at 10am. Everyone is welcome to come along and help keep Kennack Sands beautiful! Bin bags, gloves, litter pickers and hand sanitisers are all provided – just bring yourselves. What3Words location: ///poem.socialite.sped

  • Kennack Sands Beach Clean

    Kennack Sands Beach Clean

    The Friends of Kennack Sands run a family-friendly beach clean on the first Sunday of every month, starting at 10am. Everyone is welcome to come along and help keep Kennack Sands beautiful! Bin bags, gloves, litter pickers and hand sanitisers are all provided – just bring yourselves. What3Words location: ///poem.socialite.sped

  • Kennack Sands Beach Clean

    Kennack Sands Beach Clean

    The Friends of Kennack Sands run a family-friendly beach clean on the first Sunday of every month, starting at 10am. Everyone is welcome to come along and help keep Kennack Sands beautiful! Bin bags, gloves, litter pickers and hand sanitisers are all provided – just bring yourselves. What3Words location: ///poem.socialite.sped

  • Kennack Sands Beach Clean

    Kennack Sands Beach Clean

    The Friends of Kennack Sands run a family-friendly beach clean on the first Sunday of every month, starting at 10am. Everyone is welcome to come along and help keep Kennack Sands beautiful! Bin bags, gloves, litter pickers and hand sanitisers are all provided – just bring yourselves. What3Words location: ///poem.socialite.sped

  • Kennack Sands Beach Clean

    Kennack Sands Beach Clean

    The Friends of Kennack Sands run a family-friendly beach clean on the first Sunday of every month, starting at 10am. Everyone is welcome to come along and help keep Kennack Sands beautiful! Bin bags, gloves, litter pickers and hand sanitisers are all provided – just bring yourselves. What3Words location: ///poem.socialite.sped

  • Kennack Sands Beach Clean

    Kennack Sands Beach Clean

    The Friends of Kennack Sands run a family-friendly beach clean on the first Sunday of every month, starting at 10am. Everyone is welcome to come along and help keep Kennack Sands beautiful! Bin bags, gloves, litter pickers and hand sanitisers are all provided – just bring yourselves. What3Words location: ///poem.socialite.sped

  • 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,…

  • Reawakening The Lizard: a Celebration of Nature

    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 family-friendly day of talks, creativity, music, and community at the heart of the Lizard Peninsula. This special event, hosted by Wildlife Groundswell, brings together local…

  • 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 are on the cusp of emerging. 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