Wildlife Junior Workshop A Great Success
Wenvoe Wildlife Group
Wildlife Junior Workshop A Great Success
Our first Wildlife Junior Workshop for 7-11 year olds was a great success. Held at the Elizabethan Orchard, it was fully booked and all who booked turned up and enjoyed a sunny session, labelling the fruit trees, painting pebbles and toasting marshmallows. Our thanks to the organisers for making it happen and to Robert Reader who owns the land for facilitating it. Forest School leaders Angela Peterken and Claire Newland of Wild Thymes thoroughly enjoyed working with the local children, helping them to connect with all the natural wonders in the Orchard. For more ideas on connecting children to our natural world take a look at their Facebook page, Wild Thymes. Our second workshop takes place on 8th June.
If you fancy brushing up on your skills at identifying birds why not join our Bird Walk which takes place at Goldsland Farm on Saturday 3rd May starting at 9.30am. Led by bird and wildlife experts Rob and Linda Nottage, the walk will cover 2-3 miles and take in a variety of habitats including fields, orchard and Watercress Beds. Accompanied children welcome as long as they can walk a few miles. No dogs please as we shall be going into sensitive areas, and this is a working dairy farm.
Visitors to the Community Orchard on the Playing Fields will have been dismayed to find our noticeboard and bee hotel have been burnt to the ground by vandals. A police report has been made with the incident number 2500116669. If you saw anything suspicious on the evening of Friday 11th April at the Playing Fields please contact the South Wales Police