Tag: The Lizard
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Reawakening The Lizard: a Celebration of Nature
This event is hosted by Wildlife Groundswell. Save the date! Join us for Celebration of Nature – a day of talks, creativity, music, and community at the heart of the […]
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Any Size Landowners Group Get Together [CANCELLED]
This event is organised by Wildlife Groundswell. For anyone interested in viewing local landowners’ endeavours. All welcome (even if you don’t have a garden). Or perhaps you have a piece of […]
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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Wildlife Groundswell: swift and bat box making
Wildlife Groundswell and Cornwall National Landscape organised two workshops on the 9th and 10th February 2024 to make swift and bat boxes. Both days were great fun and productive – […]