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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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Sunny Rides
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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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11/06/2017 - doesn't time fly, you have a relaxing weeks break in
Devon and by the time this website gets updated a good month has
gone by. Whilst we've been away it seems like every leave in
the wood has doubled in size, creating the familiar shady summer
feel. Very welcome when the temperatures are in the 30s.
The paths in Brownes' Pieces have been replaced by blankets of
flowering clover. We saw the first marbled white butterflies
of this year, last Sunday (18 June). But they were too quick
for the camera. The common spotted orchids, see above, were
also out in force in the glade area, 194 blooms to be precise.
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No more conservation work
parties now until Sept 2017.
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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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| High above the
town of Totnes, on the castle ramparts....
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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