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Tree trail walk announced!

The third in KWAG’s series of free nature walks will be led by expert naturalist Richard Bland and explore the historic trees of the Kings Weston Estate. Come along and discover the many different and unusual species growing here, from familiar native trees to exotic imports grown to impress! Find out how to identify different species and how, when and why they were brought to Kings Weston.

Walk starts from Shirehampton Road Car Park. Please arrive at 10:15 am. The walk will commence at 10:30pm and finish around lunch time

Places are limited so book early. Accompanied children well behaved dogs on leads are very welcome.

Places are limited so book early. Accompanied children are very welcome.

E-mail kwag@theweasels.plus.com or call 07811 6666 71 to book your placetree walk poster

FREE! Kings Weston Bat Walk – 23rd August

The next walk in our programme will be a night time BAT WALK! This will be led by David Brown of the Avon Bat Group on Friday 23rd August and, as before, we need to book you a place if you would like to come along. There will be bat-detecting equipment in use to help identify the different calls and apparently Kings Weston has all but one of the native UK species so come along to find out more. Please find attached a poster/flyer giving full details of the event and feel free to pass this on to anyone who you think might be interested.

BAT WALK

Welcome to BioBlitz 2013

The Wildscreen Media Team are at Kings Weston House on this fantastically sunny Bristol day to capture action as it happens. We’ll be photographing plants, filming anything that flies and blogging about mini-beasts! So stay tuned as we tally the species throughout the day.

Pond dipping at BioBlitz

First off, Wildscreen pond dippers extraordinaire Becky, Claire and Helen jumped at the chance to join the pond-dipping expedition this morning. Accompanying naturalist Trudi, the intrepid trio joined the children of Christ Church CE Primary School to delve into the murky waters of the nearby pond.

Pond dipping at BioBlitz

The resulting net-fulls of green pond weed soon revealed a fantastic ecosystem of critters galore! Freshwater hoglice scrambled around elegantly stretching leeches, whilst a diving beetle made a bid for freedom past some enormous pond snails. And there was even the bonus find of some tadpoles!

Pond dipping at BioBlitz
Back at BioBlitz headquarters, the Media Team are now awaiting the return of the first wave of foragers and for the tally of species to begin!