To celebrate National Meadows Day 2023 Fiona Fyshe gave us a tour of the beautiful meadows at Sollers Hope on Friday 30th June. In 2015 this 3.6ha site at Hurstans received brush harvested seed from Joans Hill Coronation Meadow, a Plantlife nature reserve. The hay meadow now boast a healthy population of Green Winged Orchids as well as many other… Read more →
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Bumblebee survey and ID virtual workshops 2020 and upcoming bee clinic
Great to have so many people with us over the last two weeks for Bumblebee survey refresher and ID sessions led by Hayley Herridge, Conservation Officer, Buglife. We have also refined Herefordshire Meadows guidance on bumblebee monitoring for meadow restoration for 2019 Meadow making pilots, 2020 Pollinator Meadows and anyone else wanting to survey bumblebees. Please refer to this before… Read more →
Video on Rapid Plant Monitoring just released
Stuart Hedley plant trainer and Herefordshire vice county plant recorder has made a short video with all you need to know about the Herefordshire Meadows rapid plant monitoring method You can watch on Youtube and see the Survey and Monitoring pages of the website for further information on ID guides, books and how to separate many of the “problem pairs”… Read more →