The Women's Wildlife Group invite you to visit the RSPB's Aylesbeare nature reserve - spend the morning on Aylesbeare Common followed by lunch at The Diggers Rest in Woodbury Salterton. Meet at 10 am in the reserve car park. Please wear suitable clothing and footwear.
Aylesbeare is an RSPB heathland reserve and is nationally important for its resident Dartford warblers which we may be lucky enough to see. Also to be seen are stonechats, yellowhammers, linnets and pipits. Four of the six British reptiles occur here - adders, grass snakes, common lizards and slow worms. More species...
The Exe Estuary in winter is one of the best places in the UK to get great views of avocets. With their black-and-white plumage, and slender, curved bills, you can’t miss them especially a flock of up to 500 when they’re sweeping the mud to search for tasty morsels.
Every winter, over 40,000 birds, including hundreds of black-tailed godwits, Brent geese and red-breasted mergansers, flock to the Exe Estuary from as far a field as Siberia and Greenland.
With expert commentary on each cruise, you'll learn something new and exciting about the Exe Estuary and its residents....
As energy tariffs hit front page news, TV Dragon Deborah Meaden and around 250 representatives from renewable energy companies, trade associations, environment and development charities, the National Federation of Women's Institutes (NFWI) and faith groups lined up outside the Treasury in a united call on David Cameron to step in, green our electricity, and get all parts of his Government to start taking the green economy seriously.
The action took place on the morning Energy Secretary Ed Davey delivered a 'myth busting' speech about the forthcoming Energy Bill at an event hosted...
