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Local Wildlife News Magazine – Produced by the Greenways Project to Help Local Conservation Groups Promote Their Activities and Events Local May - August 2016 A news and events diary from wildlife and conservation groups in Wildlife the Ipswich area News Loads of events for all the family throughout the summer. See Events Diary. Produced by the Please come and volunteer at Chantry Walled Garden Tuesdays and Thursdays 9am to 3pm Led by Bob Burns Activities include: Garden maintenance General nursery work Growing and tending plants Heritage gardening Helping other people to garden Development of our Accessible Garden Conservation and maintenance in wider park It’s a good way to learn skills/share your knowledge, enjoy a cuppa in our cosy cottage and contribute to the community. You may have memories of the Walled Garden to pass on to help shape its future Contact Development Manager Susannah Robirosa on 07530 407302 or 01473 345350 or email [email protected] Meet at the main greenhouse or Nursery Cottage. Access is through green iron gate in the orchard. Turn right at top of drive (Hadleigh Rd entrance) and follow path to right, past rose garden and herbaceous border, keeping the wall on your right (ignore first iron gate). Go through wooden gate into orchard to second green iron gate. Please DO NOT enter via Ipswich Borough Council yard (which is marked ‘no public access’) 2 Welcome Welcome to the summer edition of Local Wildlife News magazine – produced by the Greenways Project to help local conservation groups promote their activities and events. The summer edition always has a wealth of varied events to help you get out and about in your local area to enjoy the wildlife and landscape – so please take the opportunity to support the fantastic 6 events and see how much the Ipswich area offers to wildlife! Getting involved – if you fancy helping any of the groups listed in this edition, please do contact Please come and volunteer them as there is always work to be done and all volunteers are very warmly welcomed! Greenways and Ipswich Wildlife Group will be continuing their series of ‘Wildlife Homes’ events around the at Chantry Walled Garden town this year – encouraging local residents to build nest-boxes and create habitat in their gardens to make their gardens into nature reserves as part of the town’s wildlife network. We are always looking for more people to help with these events and the regular Friday work parties where the kits are prepared. Don’t worry – you don’t need carpentry skills – you’ll be able to learn as you go along 8 (like the rest of us!), and we can guarantee friendly company and tea, coffee and biscuits! Please Tuesdays and Thursdays 9am to 3pm contact Greenways for more details and see Greenways pages for articles about building homes for Led by Bob Burns hedgehogs and otters. The RSPB Ipswich Group would also like you to get involved by observing the House Sparrows in your area and completing the questionnaire included in this issue. Activities include: Photographs Garden maintenance When producing LWN, we always like to use plenty of pictures to help illustrate the news and articles 12 – sometimes these are supplied by those contributing the articles, but sometimes we need more. If General nursery work you have high quality wildlife pictures that you would be happy for us to use in the magazine, we’d be delighted if you could get in touch. If you can help please either contact the Greenways Project or Growing and tending plants the Production Editor, Colin Hullis (contact details below left). Heritage gardening Contributions We are always happy to receive articles of anything up to 650 words, or wildlife ‘snippets’ – so Helping other people to garden please do send in anything which may be of interest to: Greenways Project, Scout Headquarters, Development of our Accessible Garden Stoke Park Drive, Ipswich, IP2 9TH. 01473 433995. [email protected] 13 Mailing lists – Please note Conservation and maintenance in wider park We are aware that some who are members of several conservation organisations may well receive more than one copy of the newsletter. If this is the case we would be very grateful if you could pass on the spare copy. It’s a good way to learn skills/share your knowledge, enjoy a cuppa If on the other hand you don’t currently receive LWN regularly, but would like to, please consider joining one of the groups that distributes LWN to its members (i.e. Suffolk Wildlife Trust, Ipswich in our cosy cottage and contribute to the community. Wildlife Group, RSPB etc). You may have memories of the Walled Garden to pass on to help 17 LWN is available online at www.greenlivingcentre.org.uk/greenways/ © Dean Bricknell 15 shape its future James Baker Contents Page Contact Development Manager Susannah Robirosa Suffolk Wildlife Trust 4 on 07530 407302 or 01473 345350 or email 19 Ipswich Wildlife Group 8 [email protected] Local Wildlife News is published by Friends of the Dales 9 Greenways Countryside Project. Greenways Countryside Project 10 Editor: James Baker [email protected] Portal Woodlands Conservation Group 12 Meet at the main greenhouse or Nursery Cottage. Tel 01473 433995 Production Editor: Colin Hullis Ipswich Borough Council Wildlife Rangers 13 Access is through green iron gate in the orchard. [email protected] Turn right at top of drive (Hadleigh Rd entrance) Tel 01473 728674 RSPB Ipswich Local Group 14 and follow path to right, past rose garden and herbaceous border, Artwork production: Chris Saunders Friends of Christchurch Park 16 keeping the wall on your right (ignore first iron gate). [email protected] Tel 01473 721550 Go through wooden gate into Butterfly Conservation 17 Printed by PJ Print orchard to second green iron gate. [email protected] Suffolk Ornithologists’ Group 18 Please DO NOT enter via Ipswich Borough Council yard Tel 01473 276010 Friends of Holywells Park 19 (which is marked ‘no public access’) Printed on recycled paper Friends of Belstead Brook Park 20 The opinions expressed in Local Wildlife News are not necessarily Local Wildlife News Snippets 21 those of the Greenways Project. Events Diary 22 3 Ipswich Group Newsletter Chairman: David Munday 01473 217310 [email protected] Secretary: Wendy Brown 01473 259674 [email protected] Treasurer: Tony Clarke 01473 741083 [email protected] Newsletter Editor: John Ireland 01473 723179 [email protected] Group contact: [email protected] We are the Ipswich Group of the Suffolk Wildlife Trust. We offer an interesting range of monthly meetings with guest speakers which take place usually on the third Wednesday of the month at 7.30 p.m. in the hall of St Margaret’s Primary School, Bolton Lane, Ipswich. Trust members and non-members are equally welcome. During the summer months we offer a variety of trips, some local, others by coach. Details of these and our monthly meetings can be found in our ‘Diary’ section which follows, or on the SWT website, www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org. Chairman’s Letter Car parking Information As regulars to our meetings know, the car parking at St. As a new arrangement, the Trust HQ will be using some space Margaret’s School Hall has been unavailable for some months from time to time in our Ipswich Group Newsletter to keep us while the school was being extended. Our apologies to those informed of activities, events etc in and around Ipswich and who were not able to make it for our monthly meetings and the wider SWT territory. I hope you find this useful. The first well done to those who struggled through. The school staff of these articles, about the Trust’s work in Holywells Park, were as frustrated as we were by all the delays. All things appears in this Newsletter. should be back to normal for the start of the new season but if you want to be doubly sure, any of the committee as I hope you manage to join one or both of the splendid walks above would hope to have the latest information, or look on that Leigh has organised for the summer period. Full details [email protected] are in the diary section. Have a good summer and I look forward to seeing you at our first meeting of the new season Facebook on the 21st September for Robert Maidstone’s talk on Garden Our Ipswich Group is now on Facebook and can be accessed Insects. easily by Googling Suffolk Wildlife Trust in Ipswich on Facebook and you’re in! At the time of writing all the photos Dave Munday of our trip to Wakehurst Place by Barry Cooper and Lydia (Chairman) Vulliamy are on the Facebook page. Click on ‘photos’ to bring them up. Also, Ann and David Prynn’s article on the visit to Wakehurst Place is there in full. We share the page with other SWT activities areas, so you can see what’s happening in the Ipswich area. In time we hope to be able to add other items to the page, so keep looking. Californian Poppy photographed on the trip to Wakehurst Place 4 Ipswich Group Newsletter Holywells Park – adventure, wildlife and history in the heart of Ipswich When asked about fond memories of childhood, how many of many more planned for the year ahead (more details below). It us would recount summer days exploring the countryside with proved to be a fantastic summer for wildlife at Holywells - one friends or siblings, the thrill of climbing trees, spotting a fox of the highlights was undoubtedly the first red kite record for or badger, building a den or cooking over a bonfire? Suffolk the park, spotted at a community BioBlitz event.
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