We want to know what species are present in our parish and where they are. To find out, we will be doing some organised surveys, but also we want to encourage everyone to record what they see.
We have chosen 20 species that we are especially interested in knowing more about and we are making the reporting of these as easy as possible.
We are offering two methods for reporting sightings. The easiest, which can be used for our ’20 Selected Species’ is via our website form below
The other method is via iRecord which requires more detail but goes directly to a national biological recording system that we can retrieve data from - but you’ll need to add our activity code when you fill in the form.
events & surveys
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events & surveys
We'll use this page, as well as our Facebook group, to advertise our upcoming events and surveys.
Everyone is welcome to join our events, we hope to see you there!
Events
January 2023 - Hedge planting sessions:
Saturday 7th Jan, meet at White Hill Quarry (///fetching.hushed.straw) at 10am and Sunday 8th Jan, meet at South Stoke Village Hall at 10am. We hope to see you there, please bring a spade.
contact@southstokewildlife.org
January 2023 - Fruit tree maintenance event on the recreation ground, Sunday 5th February.
Please save and bring along any spare unlaminated cardboard.
Spring SSWCG wildflower growalong
If you have one of the plug trays from the last grow along please drop it back to Paul at The Ryepeck on The Street, South Stoke - thanks.
Spring BioBlitz
What is a BioBlitz?
It is an event that focuses on finding and identifying as many species as possible in a specific area over a short period of time. At a BioBlitz community members work together to get a snapshot of an area’s biodiversity. We will take photographs of everything we find to enable identification and all records will be submitted to the iRecord biological records database.
May 2023 - Dragonfly walk
The popular dragonfly walks will return in 2023.
May 2023 - South Stoke May Fayre
May 2023 - SSWCG Quiz Night
Surveys
Our wildflower walks will continue in 2023 and we'll be adding some new locations to our schedule. Once we have dates we'll add them here and to our Facebook group.
July 2023 - Glow worm project
The glow worm survey will return on Saturday 22nd July.