Wildlife and Biodiversity Calendar of Activities

Please email us at friendsofpoc@gmail.com to sign up to attend or any queries

Meet at the Cemetery Gates at the time indicated.

PAST EVENTs

Woodland area maintenance.

We have done some pollarding near the beehives and path maintenance in the woodland area at the bottom of the cemetery, south east corner, possibly also planting some new saplings.

Foraging walk.

Successfully lead by Michael Stuart. Find out what wild plants in the cemetery are edible – you may be surprised!

Bio Blitz!

Once a year our expert botanists take a complete inventory of the plant species living in our wildflower meadow. We will use this survey as a baseline to see if we are succeeding in increasing our plant biodiversity in the years to come.

Twilight moths and bats survey.

A special one off after hours event. We conducted an a night time survey of and can report that there is a healthy population of small and large pipistrelle bats in the cemetery.

Sat 29 Jan RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch.

10.45am Join us to spend one hour recording the number and type of birds seen in the cemetery. Some materials and an expert will be on hand to assist with identification, but please bring your own binoculars.