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Dr Jocelyn Elson-Riggins has kindly forwarded the final programme for the festival so you're all set for planning your visit!  (c) Dorchester Science Festival
Waiting list only: After sending out the newsletter this week we received a flurry of requests for spaces and filled the list quickly. We have sent out personal replies to all those who contacted us.
Head over to the Dorchester Science Festival for an extensive programme of events and activities for all the family over a 10 day period. Dr Jocelyn Elson-Riggins, who is our speaker for the Tisbury talk this month, will be running the "Whale Poo Game" in Dorchester on Sun 16th March and invites you to come and play the game! Afterwards, you can see phytoplankton under the microscope and learn about environmental DNA and how to match DNA to a specific marine organism.  Join us on the 8th of February between 10 am and 12 pm to build dormouse nest boxes from a small number of ready-to-assemble kits we have ordered. Please note this is a very special event as dormice box kits are not easily available on the market and participants won't be able to take the boxes home because a license is required to check them!
We will deploy the boxes in spring in the hedgerow of a public area in Tisbury, where we would like to find out if there is dormice presence (there used to be more than 10 years ago). At the end of the survey season (19th of October, between 9.30 to 11 am), you will be able to help us carry out the box checks (under the supervision of license-holders). After this, we will remove the boxes and we will deploy them in 2026 in a National Dormouse Monitoring Programme local site. You can find out more about the boxes we will be building and the People's Trust for Endangered Species dormice monitoring on their website. Get in touch if you would like to join us! We are sorry to announce that the stargazing event has needed to be cancelled tonight due to the cloudy conditions. All participants have been sent an email.
 (c) NASA (composite image) Our Young Nature Watch offering for January 2025 is another attempt at stargazing at Dinton Park on Friday January 17th.
Meet in the Dinton Park car park near the church at 6.45pm. Wear suitable clothes and footwear for the weather - it will be muddy and slippery! Please email us to let us know if you are coming by Monday 13th January. This event will be led by Steve Tonkin from Chase and Chalke National Landscape and so we shall be in very knowledgeable hands to guide our gazing. Please bring binoculars and telescopes if you have them. Free to our members and anyone under 21. Guests please pay £2 in cash on the day. All children under 12 to be accompanied by an adult, please. In the event of the forecast of storms, we will email you before 6pm on the day. Emma Procter We've uploaded the programme for 2025 [see the link to the right of the blog] and please put the dates in your diary. We'd love to see if we can increase the number of children coming to the Young Nature Watch activities, so please help us to spread the word amongst your friends and at your schools.
Every year, the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland hold a citizen science photographic opportunity at New Year and we would like you to join in. To participate, you need to take a photograph of a wild flower blooming between December 29th 2024 and January 1st 2025. Email it to us by midnight on 2nd January 2025.
Make sure to include details of your name, an identification of the wild flower and where the flower was blooming (a postcode or grid reference would be great but the name of the nearest place will be fine.) We will send a group entry of all of the photos to Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. In addition, we will display all of the photos on our website for everyone to enjoy. Below is some more information about BSBI. "The BSBI is for everyone who is interested in the flora of Britain and Ireland. We trace our origins back to 1836, when the society was founded as the Botanical Society of London. We are now one of the world's largest contributors of biological records: our data inform scientific research and underpin evidence-based conservation. Whether you’re new to plant hunting or you’re already a botanical recorder, we need your help to discover which plants are managing to bloom in the middle of winter across Britain and Ireland. Thousands of people take part in the Hunt every year and this is helping us build up a better understanding of how our wild plants are responding to changing autumn and winter weather patterns. The more we know, the more we can help conserve our wild plants and all the other wildlife they support." Good luck with your quest! We are looking forward to seeing what you find. Find some top tips for your plant hunt here
This November we are going on a fossil hunt! Our regular monthly event will run on Saturday the 9th of November between 3 and 5 pm. We will be exploring a local field (private, to which we have been granted access permission for this event) where fossils from marine animals are known to occur. What are marine animals doing here in Tisbury? Well, come and find out! Here is a little example of what may be found. The landowner may show us some of the fossils in his collection afterwards!  |
Young Nature Watch (YNW) is a branch of the Tisbury and District Natural History Society (T&DNHS).
YNW is free for under-21s! Young people always have priority at any of our activities but accompanying adults are required for under-12s. For adults, annual membership for the T&DNHS (£10) or a £2 fee per event (for non-members) is due. Download our annual programme below! 
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