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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 the reserve follow this link.
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Memories of our trip
to Cornwall & Devon
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13/08/2017 - today was my first visit back to the woods after our
holiday break in Devon and Cornwall. It all seems a long time
ago now, especially after going back to work. The
"postcard" above shows some of the places we
visited. Clockwise from top left they are; the Coast Path cafe
in Gorran Haven foor cream teas, Starehole Bay near Salcombe, the
quay at Bayards Cove, Dartmouth and Little Perhaver Beach, Goran
Haven. On today's visit I found an enormous fungi specimen,
not certain what it is but it would certainly fill a dinner plate.
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09/07/2017 - the sunny weather continues and with it the chance to
see a mass of butterflies along the rides. Once again the silver-washed fritillaries
were out again in force. This week they were accompanied by
large white butterflies and a very early second brood of
brimstone. All in all another good day wildlife watching.
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02/07/2017 - the sunny weather today meant that we had one of the
best days spotting butterflies in twenty years of visiting the
woods. Many species were in flight; comma, red admiral, small
skippers, gatekeepers (bottom right above), marbled whites on
Brownes' Pieces (top right above), green veined white, small and
large white, meadow brown and ringlets. But the stars of the
show were the silver-washed fritillaries (left
above). We saw more of these large orange butterflies today
than all the previous sightings in the woods combined. A truly
amazing day.
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Conservation
work party dates for the 2017-18 season are:
3rd & 17th
September
1st, 15th & 29 October
12th & 26th November
10th & 24 December
7th & 21st January 2018
4th & 18th February
4th & 18th March
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Last Update
19/03/2017
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Today's conservation task was cutting
the grass and clearing brambles from the outer section of the
meadow. Click
here
to see what we have achieved so far.
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Want
to see what the reserves looked like in December 1945? Well
you can now using Google Earth. Click here
for more details.
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To learn more about the
history of Waresley parish and the amenities it has to offer, click
on this link
to visit the village's website.
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| A windy day in
Soar Mill Cove, Devon, thinking about swimming (we didn't).
If you have any
questions about the woods, require further information on
work parties or wish to comment upon this website, you can contact me, Graham Moorby, Volunteer Warden at:
graham@waresleywood.co.uk
@grahammoorby
#waresleywood
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