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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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Returning to the Woods
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23/05/2020 - we have now paid two visits to the woods since the
easing of lockdown and have walked most paths. A couple of paths
remain with large trees across them. The Wildlife Trust BCN are
aware and will clear them when furloughed staff return. We shall be
carrying out the usual "tidy up" jobs as and when
required. Stay safe and take care - Graham.
16/05/2020 - the
early morning view that greeted us today on our first visit to the
woods since the end of March. Really pleased to be back.
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23/05/2020 -a sighting of the wood's rarest orchid, the butterfly
orchid, I'll let you decide if it is the greater or lesser variety.
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23/05/2020 - common spotted orchid, the second orchid hosted by
the reserve, just starting to flower in the wood's glade.
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23/05/2020 -the ragged robin, in their favoured spot in the glade,
although I noticed a few along the main on this visit. Not easy
to photograph in windy conditions or to get them all in focus.
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23/05/2020 -a yellow rattle in the small meadow, did it benefit from
the lack of any grass cutting there this spring?
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16/05/2020 -the third orchid to be found in the wood, the early purple
orchid. Really glad that we were able to see some of the later
flowering ones this year. From the number of stalks it looks
like they had a really good showing this year.
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16/05/2020 -and finally the rather bizarre flower of the herb-paris, a
bit of a rarity, as the wood only has about four specimens that are
known to me.
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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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