By YACWAG admin
A packed room greeted YACWAG’s speaker in the Chapter House, Yatton, in early November 2023. It was the first talk YACWAG had held in person for three years and members showed their support by coming along to learn about a fascinating subject.Fred Giles presented a very interesting talk on Grasshoppers…
A Peregrine was over Smarts factory on the 1st and that evening a Barn Owl was out at dusk on Congresbury Moor. At Dowlais Farm, Kenn, a Hobby made an unsuccessful attack on a Meadow Pipit, there were 70 Oystercatchers roosting at high tide with good numbers of Redshank, Curlew…
The Swallow roost at Wemberham Lane dispersed and on the 1st Pied Wagtails were roosting in increased numbers, at least 40 gathered on Smart’s factory before dropping into the reeds. Three Whinchat were on Congresbury Moor (4th) along with a Barn Owl and sadly the remains of three Kestrels in…
It was unsettled at the beginning of August but a Little Owl was calling in the late evening of the 1st in Claverham and the next day a juvenile Sparrowhawk put in an appearance in a members garden in Yatton. Whinchat on Congresbury Moor 3rd August 2023 by Mark Savage…
The month started with reports of lots of House Sparrows and House Martins on the Chestnut Park Estate and good numbers of Swallows with young at the stables in Wemberham Lane. Chiffchaff and Blackcap were singing there intermittently with a Song Thrush in full voice late evening. A Mistle Thrush…
The month started with three Swifts over Cadbury Hill where young Great Spotted Woodpeckers could be heard in a nest. A Red Kite was over the centre of Yatton early in the month and by mid month at least five has been seen. Parties of House Martins were active in…
The early morning bird walk along the Strawberry Line and Congresbury Moor on the 1st attracted 25 attendees, and eventually we heard each of our seven regular warbler species in song, with most of them visible at times. One of our resident Kestrels and a couple of Skylarks put in…
The month opened with two Linnets in a Kenn garden, not a usual garden species. It was a case of the quiet and the noisy in the churchyard at Kingston Seymour with a Goldcrest and a Ring Necked Parakeet. Three of the latter had been seen, interesting but probably not…
By YACWAG admin
Watch an illustrated talk followed by questions and answers given to YACWAG by Eleanor Higginson who is a Land Management Consultant. Topics covered include: What's going on in farming right now? (including UK Government schemes and Regenerative Farming), Essential Natural Processes (nutrient cycle, water cycles, species interactions), 5 Principles of…
The Starling murmuration ended abruptly at Tesco’s in Clevedon at the beginning of the month, one wonders what triggers thousands of birds to change their roost site as one. The Reserves were even drier than last month and it was a surprise (a pleasant one) to find 11 Snipe at…
Mark Savage visited East Anglia at the end of February 2023 and has kindly provided these pictures of scarce species. Shorelarks at Holkham Gap, Norfolk (photo by Mark Savage. 26 February 2023) These birds are well named, they are winter visitors to the UK, always on the coast and only…
By Faith Moulin
The fourth in a series of blogs about YACWAG’s fields and their secrets. You can view the previous entries here.Part 1: Fields Hold SecretsPart 2: A Small Field with a Big SecretPart 3: From Nags to Niches – Having a Field Day Sue Clifford of Common Ground, the conservation charity,…
There was a mixed flock of about 80 Fieldfares and Redwings at the Stowey Reserve and also evidence that Barn Owls have used both the new box and the repositioned box. The adjacent fields produced a pair of Stonechats, a couple of Little Egrets and a Kingfisher. Just outside the…
The Kenn Moor Reserve Snipe count on the 2nd produced 28 Snipe with a few Meadow Pipits, a pair of Stonechats and an overflying Little Egret. On the same day a mixed flock of 200 Redwings and Fieldfares was by the Gang Wall. Snipe on the Congresbury Yeo (16 December…
By YACWAG admin
After the success of the last year's Window Wanderland we are pleased to announce it's return. Last year in February 2022, 60 households, groups and businesses in Congresbury, Yatton and Claverham partook in creating wonderful wildlife displays for their street-facing windows for the 'Love Your Local Wildlife' Window Wanderland event.…
The first Snipe count of the winter took place on the 4th at Kenn Moor Reserve. There were a dozen Snipe which is about average for the early December count there. The Congresbury Moor fields were fairly dry so only five Snipe (but several Pheasants) there. It was pleasing to…
Our member on Cadbury Hill reported Great Tits ‘everywhere’ and a Marsh Tit as well as a Tawny Owl in the car park at the beginning of the month. A couple of days later whilst we were cleaning out the Nestboxes in Yatton churchyard two noisy Mistle Thrushes arrived. They…
By YACWAG admin
An illustrated hour long talk followed by questions and answers about fungi in YACWAG's Littlewood reserve given by John and Doreen Bailey of The North Somerset and Bristol Fungus Group (NS&BFG). </div></code></pre> or open video in YouTube. You can view all YACWAG's videos via the Library page of this site.
We’ve reached that time of year when the flowering season for most garden plants has ended, the trees are busy shedding the last of their leaves, and the temptation is to cut everything back to ‘tidy up’ the garden. But this is just the time of year when many creatures…
A sunny morning on the 6th produced a passage of Skylarks. They migrate in ones and twos, calling as they pass over and October is the prime month. These are birds that nest in the north heading south for winter. Later that day 20 Swallows flew south over Wemberham Lane…
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