A great spotted #woodpecker in Great Park. The footage is a little bit shaky and the woodpecker is in the centre. We have two of the three species of woodpecker found in the UK on the reserve.
We’ve just reached 1500 records on @inaturalistorg . A big shout out to everyone who has been helping to record the different species on the Reserve. It’s helping us to understand the wildlife that we have from wildflowers to bees, beetles and butterflies
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On Saturday 13 June we’re running three events on the Reserve as part of the wonderful @festofnature
💚 Wildlife 📸 with amazing photograper and ecologist @bath_nature
💚🎨nature with the fantastic local artist Mark Cripps
💚✍🏻 about nature with the brilliant local performance poet Jo Butts
For more info on how to book a free place on one the three events celebrating art and nature visit /events
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Tomorrow (Saturday 25 April) we’ll be running a #bioblitz at Charlcombe Community Nature Reserve as part of the City Nature Challenge as people around the world become citizen scientists, helping to record #wildlife where they live. To take part you’ll need to download the free iNaturalist app (once all set up you can add ‘Charlcombe Community Nature Reserve’ as a project and we’ll capture data from any observations). You can come along for some or all of the time (between 11am and 12.30pm - we’ll be meeting at the kissing gate on Charlcombe Way) and all of our records will automatically be added to the West of England data for the City Nature Challenge. Last year we recorded 105 species in the 90 minutes and tomorrow is looking like it will be sunny. It’s also a chance to see the tadpoles in one of the new ponds 🦋🐦⬛🍄🟫🌳🦉🐸🐞💚 #citynaturechallenge
We’ve just reached a citizen science milestone with local residents adding 1,000 records on @inaturalistorg (covering more than 320 species). Together with reports from ecologists and some of the regular surveys that we carry out on the reserve (Big Garden Birdwatch, reptile mat surveys and from this year, the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme) this helps us build up an idea of the wildlife that we have and the impact of our active management on helping nature to recover at this special place.
On Saturday 25 April we’ll be taking part in the City Nature Challenge for the second year (in 2025 we recorded 105 species), seeing how many species we can record in 90 minutes between 11am and 12.30pm. You’ll need to download the free iNaturalist app on to your smartphone and add ‘Charlcombe Community Nature Reserve’ as a project so that we capture the data from any observations. All the records will automatically be added to the City Nature Challenge in the West of England. Come and find us near to the kissing gate on Charlcombe Way (https://w3w.co/along.shakes.flood) and we’ll explain how everything works.
We’ve just hit a citizen science milestone with more than 1,000 records on @inaturalistorg (covering more than 320 species). Together with reports from ecologists and some of the regular surveys that we carry out on the reserve (Big Garden Birdwatch, reptile mat surveys and from this year, the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme) this helps us build up an idea of the wildlife that we have and the impact of our active management of this special place.
