Ancient buildings and the idyllic Inny valley

Extracts from my March 2020 blog found at https://www.naturalword.co.uk/2020/03/16/ancient-buildings-and-the-idyllic-inny-valley/ Our wildlife encounters of the day began with a daring rescue inside the church room during the March AGM of the Launceston Area Parish Wildlife Group (LAPWG). Our Vice-Chair Jen and her husband Pete managed to rescue a small tortoiseshell butterfly that had woken up and …

Bat and dormouse quest

Our bat and dormouse survey day marked a quarter of a century anniversary of bat checks at Armstrong’s Wood for our resident local ‘batman’, Tony Atkinson. We were jointly led by another very good friend of our local wildlife, Jen Bousfield, who is both qualified and experienced in Hazel Dormouse surveys, and was standing in …

A trip to Looe Island

An unprecedented scorcher of a day may have been predicted by the national weather forecast, but as our group of ten nature enthusiasts from Launceston Area Parish Wildlife Group (LAPWG) and a good friend from Looe boarded our little boat, there was a slight chill in the air. As Jen, our usual coordinator, waved us …