Heart of the Levels local area group. Next public meeting

Dear SWT Heart of the Levels supporter,

Following the recent  excellent talk by our speaker from FWAG on how various agencies are now managing the flow of water from the Hills to the Levels to reduce the risks of flooding in the future, we decided to go underwater with our next speaker and to look at Brown Trout and other wildlife that use our Somerset rivers. Mike Blackmore is our speaker and he describes himself as an environmentalist, ecologist, Wild Trout Trust Conservation Officer (South and West), and all-round river man!

(Even) fishermen and fisherwomen will be most welcome!

The talk will be held in the Parish Rooms, Buttercross, in the centre of Somerton at 7:30 pm on Tuesday 14th November. Tea, coffee, and hopefully cakes, will be available after the talk.

For your diaries, I’ve attached the rolling programme of Heart of the Levels events, which takes us to the talk in April. 

We hope to see you next Tuesday!

Roger

Roger Dickey   Chairman Heart of the Level Group 

roger.dickey52@gmail.com                            

  

Curry Rivel Wildlife Group activities 2017 / 2018

The Curry Rivel  Wildlife Survey Group  put together this programme of events for 2017.
We hope to do something similar for 2018

We had a short meeting of our small group this week and started to plan a few activities for 2018 similar to this years programme, See below.

This was full of good intentions and some of the events didn’t happen but we hope to do something similar for 2018. We see it as a contribution to the 2018 CR in Bloom entry as part of the community and environmental part of our entry.

Month. 2017	Web site and  CRN articles and information	Event title	Event date .	Event  Leader and time	Comment
March	Catherine  on  Village birds		No event
April	Deon  on Otters in Somerset	Bird walk	Friday 14th	Catherine , 7 – 9am,  start by St Andrews Church	Good Friday
April	David on Survey progress and publicity for talk in May.	Bird walk, Nightingales and Owls	Friday 28th	Catherine , 8.15 pm to 9.30 pm Meet by the gate in Eastfield	Sunset is 20.25
May	David on Wild flowers and butterflies in Eastfield and Batty Piece.	Walk in Eastfield and BattyPiece to survey the wild flower meadows and ancient and new hedges	TBA	David Mid May- TBA	Sunset about 20.55
May	Check event details	Evening talk on Otters around Curry Rivel?	Friday 19th.	Deon. Venue and time TBA
June	Elizabeth on Owls on Henry Lang’s farm and the Kingfisher project	Picnic in Eastfield	Saturday 10th	David and Catherine.  Sat 10th June 12 to 2 pm	Bring some food and a sheet to sit on.
July	Catherine on Gloworms	Walk on Henry Langs farm.	Date  TBA	David. Time TBA
August	Elizabeth on Dragonflies	Walk to find gloworms	Friday 11th	Deon,  8pm. Location TBA	Sunset 20.35
September	Elizabeth on Fungi	Walk on South Drove near Dewlands Farm to search for Dragonflies	Saturday 9th	Deon, at 2pm
October	Summer review of programme and survey data.	Walk to find Fungi	Sunday 22nd	TBA  3pm

Starlings hotline now active

We have a visitor coming to stay a few days who is a keen birdwatcher. We want to show him our wonderful Starlings. 

To find the best places to see them we will use the:

Avalon Marshes Starling Hotline - Ham Wall - Ham Wall - The RSPB ...

www.rspb.org.uk › Home › Places to visit › Ham Wall › Ham Wall

26 Oct 2012 - Yes, it's that time of year again and Starlings are beginning to swarm over Ham Wall at Dusk. The Avalon Marshes Starling Hotline is now LIVE. This is a recorded message telling you where the last known location of the Starling roost was. The number is: 07866 554142.

Glow worms search

Just posted a comment on Curry Rivel facebook page to report on our Glow Worm search. Better than I dared hope!


Curry Rivel David GermanWe were searching for an hour and a half and it was getting dark and bingo we found our first female glowworm, eventually we had seen a dozen and after two hours we finished happy at our successful walk. We also listened to bats out hunting through out our walk. A real nature ramble and a great success! With Curry Rivel Wildlife Survey Group.