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Newts!
Did you know that we have a newt reserve in Bracknell? Bracknell Forest Council maintains a set of former clay pits in Whitegrove. This...
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Sep 18, 20192 min read
The owls of Binfield
As the nights are drawing in and Halloween is approaching it feels fitting to write about owls. We are fortunate in Binfield to have...
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Sep 2, 20191 min read
Binfield Clean-up Day
Saturday 21st September is World Clean-up Day. More information on this global event can be found here – https://www.worldcleanupday.org...
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Aug 14, 20191 min read
Summer Update
July and August are usually quiet months in nature conservation but there seems to be a lot going on around Binfield: - Thanks to...
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Jul 20, 20191 min read
Citizen Science
Butterflies, and particularly painted ladies, have been in the news this week. Here are some of the simple activities that we can all...
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Jul 7, 20192 min read
Get out and smell the flowers
Now summer is here, I want you to get out and enjoy the flowers. There are summer flowers a-plenty in and around our parish, and the...
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Jun 24, 20191 min read
Blue Mountain Bioblitz
Despite the threat of showers, we had a record turn-out for our latest biodiversity survey at the Blue Mountain park on Saturday 15th...
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Jun 7, 20192 min read
Plastic Free Binfield
This year's incredibly successful Binfield 10K event saw a small but hopefully significant change. All of the water stations handed out...
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Jun 5, 20192 min read
Binfield's Stags
Earlier this week this gorgeous creature visited our garden. This is a male stag beetle and he has only a couple of months to find a...
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Apr 26, 20192 min read
A swift return to summer
As I write this I am eagerly awaiting the return of one of my favourite summer visitors, and another Bracknell Forest Council...
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Apr 23, 20191 min read
Wicks Green Bioblitz
Thanks to everyone who joined us at Wicks Green on Easter Saturday. We discovered that there was a greater variety of plants in the park...
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binfieldeg
Mar 11, 20192 min read
Did you know?
This post shares some, hopefully interesting, facts about the nature in our village. Binfield has at least 170 veteran trees. These are...
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binfieldeg
Feb 26, 20192 min read
A nightjar sang in Bracknell Forest
This amazing bird is a nightjar, whose folk-names include fern-owl, goat-sucker and dew-fall hawk. This scarce summer migrant hunts for...
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binfieldeg
Feb 11, 20191 min read
Hedgerow and Woodland Conservation
On Saturday I bumped into the lovely people from Hedge and Woodland Conservationists (HAWC) who were laying a hedgerow at Larks Hill. If...
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Feb 2, 20192 min read
Is Binfield batty?
This is the second of a series of articles on the species mentioned in that plan that make Binfield their home. This species is...
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binfieldeg
Nov 9, 20182 min read
Binfield's Hedgehogs
In my last post, I wrote about the Bracknell Forest Biodiversity Action Plan. This is the first of a series of posts on the species...
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Mike Coker
Sep 20, 20182 min read
Bullfinches, cowslips and a beefy BAP
Most Binfield residents know how lucky they are to live in Binfield and to enjoy its open green spaces and the nature that make the...
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Mike Coker
Jul 11, 20181 min read
Butterflies, oak trees and a Dutch invasion!
On Sunday 1st July, Jane and I joined a walk led by Mike Taylor from Natural England exploring some of the green-spaces that form part of...
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Jun 25, 20181 min read
Popes, peacocks and panoramas
Thanks to everyone who joined the BEG team for a walk on Saturday 16th June and everyone who visited our table in Silver Jubilee Field....
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Jun 3, 20183 min read
Celebrating Binfield's Paths
We are lucky to live in a village where we can enjoy interesting and varied walks in all directions taking the walker to bluebell woods,...
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