Young Nature Watch will be doing their very own Egg Hunt across Wallmead Farm on Saturday April 18th at 2pm.

A member of Wiltshire Ornithological Society (WOS) will help us identify some of the eggs laid by the different species of more familiar, and not so familiar birds.

​Contact us to book your place.

On Sunday March 1st at 2pm Young Nature Watch will be joining Bournemouth Oceanarium as they host a public beach clean where everyone is welcome. They will supply the litter pickers, waste bags, disposal bins, recording sheets and clipboards so simply bring yourself, a sturdy pair of shoes, adequate clothing, sun cream (depending on forecast) and any friends or family to help.

The beach clean will run from 2pm-3pm, however you do not have to stay for the full length of time. Whether you help for 2 minutes or 2 hours, it all helps reduce plastic from entering our oceans!
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Please send an email to YNW if you are interested in coming along. Hopefully the rain will have stopped by then!

Our Young Nature Watch Activity for February is an Owl Pellet dissection workshop, on Saturday February 7th in Hinton hall from 10am - 12pm.

This event will involve delving your hands into what owls eat using tweezers to pick apart their undigested pellets. Its often mucky but great fun!

Come along and see what you can find.

Friday January 23rd at 6.30pm our Young Nature Watch activity will be a stargazing evening at Dinton Park, led by Steve Tonkin FRAS, Dark Sky Advisor, Cranborne Chase National Landscape International Dark Sky Reserve.

This will be the third year in a row that we have tried to run this event. Sadly, we have had to cancel the last two because of storms and cloud cover and so it's fingers crossed for third time lucky! If you would like to come, please contact us by email. We will send you details of where to meet, what to bring and also let you know if we need to cancel, so please provide a contact telephone number as it may be a last minute phone call that saves you a wasted journey.

We had some really creative wreaths last Saturday at Tis the Season from children and parents alike. Emma and I enjoyed seeing the pleasure it brings when making your own Christmas wreath - we grabbed some time to make our own as well.

A big thank you to Debbie and Andrew Carter for kindly opening up their garden for me to fill two big bags of greenery, crab apples and cotoneaster berries. Anthony Lovell-Wood, the churchwarden at St Johns Church, also let me top up with holly berries and some cedar stems. We love the community spirit of wreath making, the chat and enjoyment it brings. 

​Julia
[Note: we always ask before including photos of children and deliberately position with faces averted for safeguarding purposes]

Head to our Instagram or Facebook for a review and pictures of our otter survey earlier today, where we found positive evidence for otters and other interesting creatures!

We are hoping to find a lead for Young Nature Watch in 2026. After 5 years at the helm, the current lead is stepping down.

If you have enjoyed our events and would like to continue them, expand them and improve them, please come forward! Assistance can be provided if needed and we are open to many options. Feel free to get in touch to discuss in detail if you feel you may be potentially interested.

If no replacement lead is found, unfortunately YNW will cease to exist in its current format, although young people will still be welcome in all the other events of the society's programme and in special events in collaboration with other organisations, such as Wiltshire Mammal Group & Wiltshire Wildlife Trust.

Our first November event is an otter survey by the river Wylye, on Sunday the 16th of November between 10am and 12pm. The survey will involve walking for about 1 mile while checking the riverside for otter footprints and spraint (poo), we are very unlikely to see the actual otters. If you would like to join, please get in touch and we will let you know of the meeting point and other details - close to the event date. Unfortunately, this event may need to be cancelled in adverse weather or if there is flooding.