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Welcome to the Waresley and Gransden
Woods website
This website is dedicated to providing
information on all topics relating to the Waresley and Gransden Woods reserves of
The Wildlife
Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
For directions to visit the reserve follow this link.
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Beautiful Butterflies
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19/07/2020 - after bemoaning the lack of butterflies seen on our
reserve visits this website update is only about the colourful
butterflies we have now seen and been able to photo. This
peacock butterfly kindly stayed still long enough to grab this snap.
Stay safe and respect social distancing
while in the reserve - Graham.
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19/07/2020 -on this week's visit we were also able to see this red
admiral basking in the sun.
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12/07/2020 - one of my favourite butterflies and thankfully now a
regular summer visitor to the woods, silver washed fritillaries.
I was very pleased with the composition of these two below. The male,
to the right, is distinguished by four black stripes on each fore
wing.
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12/07/2020 - not one but two comma butterflies also enjoying the
blackberry flowers.
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Conservation
work parties will now restart in September
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Last Conservation Update
08/02/2020
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The view above from before storm
Dennis shows our last visit's conservation
work in the main ride's coppice section. All hazel in the two
scallops has been cut. Layering and cutting back overhanging
boughs are the next jobs, weather permitting. Click here
to see our progress so far.
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