2024 has proved to be a very difficult year for progressing our nature conservation work. The number of wet days occurring since the start of the year have made volunteer day opportunities to progress our many projects, extremely difficult. More selected project days have been cancelled this year than since the group was formed 20 […]

This year has been the most successful yet for breeding occupancy in our barn owl boxes. Not only have we had a record number of barn owl young born in our boxes, we have also had a large number of kestrels who are also in decline nationally with only 1 in 3 born surviving beyond […]

The Woodland, Flora & Fauna Group have organised a special public talk by the renowned author and leading authority on barn owls, David Ramsden, MBE from the Barn Owl Trust. It will take place on Thursday 29th August at 7.30 pm in the Main Hall at Hurstpierpoint Village Centre, Trinity Road, Hurstpierpoint, BN6 9UY. David Ramsden is one of the […]

2023 was an abysmal year for undertaking wildlife checks in the latter months. These checks were required to be undertaken on dry days but the weather proved to be so changeable that they couldn’t be planned very far ahead. Dry windows suddenly emerged in a persistently wet forecast and arrangements to undertake them had to […]

Every year we visit all our barn owl boxes at least twice in a year. The first to clean out and maintain each box and the second to return in the breeding season to check whether any owls have produced eggs or young in them. The first visit is undertaken in the winter months in […]