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In December, we will have a nut hunt. We will be walking on a woodland owned by the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust looking for hazelnuts with teeth marks from wood mice, bank voles and dormice! These marks are visible with the naked eye but you are welcome to bring small magnifying lenses if you have any.  We will be sharing our records with the Mammal Society via an app called Mammal Mapper or iRecord. If you have any of these apps on your phone, we can show you how to use them if you've never done it before, so you can repeat the hunt by yourself another time and log in your sightings.
We will aim to have three separate young groups covering different areas of the wood, one group will be young families, one group teenagers and one group young people of any age! Please get in touch if you are interested in coming and tell us what group you will be joining.  Alas, this is now sold out but why not go to the full programme here to find out what's coming up and register your interest in advance, to be sure you won't miss out next time.
 Saturday, 28 August, 1pm - 3pm
Come and learn about the little creatures and plants that inhabit the waters of the River Nadder in Tisbury. You'll be surprised what's there! Open to all - but contact us to register and for full information. This month there’s a second chance to see glow worms (and to listen out for cuckoos and turtles doves) on an evening walk when Young Nature Watch meet on Saturday the 24th of July at 9.30 pm in the Martin Down Nature Reserve.
On Saturday, 3rd of July, Young Nature Watch held a wildflower survey in the Tisbury parish meadow (accessible from the Nadder Centre, beyond the skateboard rink). We learned to identify grassland flora and help monitor the diversity and prevalence of positive indicators of a pollinator-friendly meadow.
 Our activity in June was a free bushcraft skills workshop for 12-18 years old in Fontmell Down, a nature reserve in North Dorset owned by the National Trust.
This was in collaboration with the local charity Seeds 4 Success, as part of their Leisure Credits programme. We were the first organisation to make use of the site! Lots of events in the April members' newsletter , including the opportunity at 6pm on April 2nd, this Friday, to hear and learn about he night sky in a “Space Travel online experience” with Steve Tonkin who has the grand title (it could come straight from Star Wars) of Dark Sky Advisor to the Cranborne Chase AONB.
Truth to tell, Steve has a life-long passion for astronomy that alerted him to the effects of light pollution, and works to consolidate and strengthen the standing of Cranborne Chase as an International Dark Sky Reserve. This is a Young Nature Watch event, but all our members are welcome (and non-members, too, if you pay a visitor fee).  YNW celebrates the first day of Spring on Sunday, 21 March by getting down to earth with a Toad Patrol on Swallowcliffe Down.
I love my toads! Very much welcome in my garden, seeing off slugs both great and small as in this photo. I realised why that excellent dish Toad in the Hole was so named, when I found one hunkered down in his hole at the base of a rose. (Elizabeth Forbes) |
Young Nature Watch (YNW) is a branch of the Tisbury and District Natural History Society (TNHS). Our first event was on July 2020.
YNW is free for under-21s! Young people always have priority at any of our activities but accompanying adults are required for under-12s. Whenever possible, we will aim to split attendants into three different groups: - Families with young children - Teenagers only - Young-at-heart of all ages For adults, annual membership for the TNHS (£10) or a £2 fee per event (for non-members) is due. YNW activities are organised by Inés Lopez-Doriga and Izzy Fry (find out more about how it all started in Focus, p.27). Join our mailing list to be the first to hear about our events! You can also follow us on:
YNW logo design by Izzy Fry.
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