Our volunteer team has been working very hard this month to re open the lost orchard which has ben engulfed by nearby bramble and completely taken over and drowned. With a lot of hard graft, volunteers made significant headway this month to open it back up and so work can […]
Access to Ten Acres
Volunteering is back in 2023 thanks to both the WMCA and the Selly Oak NNS fund. We are on site every Wedneday and Friday tackling a range of issues that built up over winter and working on continued opening up of the lost orchard area. So far we have:
Harry Gray, our local river ecologist has been out with volunteers today checking out the health of the River Rea by monitoring the insect species living in it. The team were able to monitor Cased Caddisfly, Mayfly, Stoneflies and Freshwater Shrimp on the site at Willow Bridge. The 3 month […]
Our final bat walk for the year thanks to the WMCA was last night and there was a great turnout! The bats however have become far less active so its good timing on the walks to now wind down (until next time!). HOWEVER, not to disappoint anyone we did not […]
Unlike previous bat walks this one was a quiet one. The main body of bats on the hunt on this evenings were Pipistrelles and they were few and far between across the woodland and park. No new sightings/recordings and no confirmations this time! Fingers crossed for a better walk on […]
Our walk was significantly quieter this week so it was really interesting to see how the change in weather really affects the hunting patterns of the bats in Ten Acres. However, we got a few really clear recordings including of two completely new bats on the site – Whiskered Myotis […]
We had a fantastic time on our bat walk again this week and were excited to get clear recordings of the Noctule and Lesser Noctule bats this time as well as two new species of bat! We were unable to confirm the Barbastelle this week so we will try again […]
We had a fantastic time on our bat walk and were excited to not only hear bats but to see them too flying right over our heads! Here is a list of the species we found on site according to the Echo Meter 2 – a wonderful bat detection system […]
Thanks to funding form the West Midlands Combined Authority via the Heart of England Community Foundation we are pleased to announce two FREE childrens storytelling events in Top Meadow Garden this year. Join us on 9th and 16th july at 1:30PM in top meadow garden on the woodland path in […]
