Saturday, May 10 2025

10:08 AM - 12:08 PM
Friday, May 9, 2025 10:08 a.m.
Multi-day Event
Projects & Special …

Showcase your snapping skills with our Celebrate Nature photography competition!

 

To mark five years of the Nature Recovery Network, we're calling out for nature themed entries focusing on celebrating our local environment, the intrinsic value of our natural world and what it brings us. From the smallest of flowers in our back gardens and green havens, to creatures and natural networks in the wild, we're looking forward to receiving your submissions! 

There will be three age categories, with one winner plus one runner up in each category:

  • 11 years old and under - £30 prize
  • 12-17 years old - £50 prize
  • Adults 18+ - £100 prize

No need for an SLR camera, images may be shot on a smartphone, but need to be submitted as at min 5mb - max 10mb 300ppi.

Submit your artwork by Friday 6th June 2025 to alice@millstreetarts.co.uk

Winners will be announced and artwork displayed at our Big Midsummer Meadow Nature Celebration event on Saturday 21st June 2025

9 AM - 11 AM
Saturday, May 10, 2025 9 a.m.
Projects & Special …

Walk with local bird expert Allen Stevens and learn to identify our birds and their songs

Join Nature Recovery Network’s Basic Bird Identification walk with experienced local birder, Allen Stevens. The walk will be the 8th in a series of bird surveying opportunities for NRN birding beginners. Walks start at 9.00am at the Fishponds Car Park and finish by 11.00am. Anyone who can only do an hour can finish at the half-way stop. Please bring binoculars if you have them.

These walks take place at the change of seasons with NRN's local birding experts. They are at a relaxed pace with regular stops, so are suitable for all ages. The main aim is to help anyone who is interested in getting a bit more familiar with basic bird recognition, song/calls and the best places to spot them.

Those of you who are not already members of NRN, we'd love you to join (£10 per year) in order to enjoy this workshop and many others for free. If you'd rather not join just yet, we ask you to pay £5 for this Bird Walk. This is partly because, although we all give our services for free, NRN has significant costs to do what it is doing for our local nature. Also, these workshops are usually oversubscribed and we have found that people sign up and then don't turn up, depriving someone else of the opportunity (to join NRN see below).

We look forward to sharing some time with you in the Great Outdoors! 

Please click here and give our local wildlife a present by becoming an NRN member! Not only will you be supporting compost/tool purchase etc. but you will get free access to all our survey workshops and discounted rates for workshops that we charge for.

Photo: Barn owl box installation in St Leonards Churchyard