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Photo of Angelo - a cygnet with the 'angel wing' condition.

Thursday 4th January 2018 SH (Editor)

Discovery of cygnet with “cleanly broken back” heightens concerns for other missing swans

An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. I’ve been staring at a blank screen for a long time now, my words failing me, as I’ve no wish to pass on this sad news. As I said to the Bristol Post, “The birds are an iconic part of our town and the affection and concern that

Photo of Bradley Stoke Green Gym volunteers at The Common East.

Thursday 16th November 2017 SH (Editor)

Green Gym group tackles The Common East

By Sara Messenger, Bradley Stoke Green Gym. If you’ve spotted some strange chaps looking as though they’re auditioning for ‘Poldark: The Later Years’, it was, I suspect, the Bradley Stoke Green Gym, as they have been helping out SGC, Bradley Stoke in Bloom and Buglife. Although Green Gym took over most of this area from the Patchway Conservation Group, an

Friday 10th November 2017 SH (Editor)

Three Brooks nature reserve in October

An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Last month it was “All things batty” and this month it seems it’s “All things birdie”! We had several reports that the swans could not be found on the lake, which is not unusual as they often wander up Stoke Brook (from the lake to Braydon Gate) teaching

Photo of Conservation group members presenting a copy of ‘Bobby the Brown Long-Eared Bat’’ to the library.

Saturday 7th October 2017 SH (Editor)

Three Brooks nature reserve in September

An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. All things batty! Thanks to the generosity of Bradley Stoke Town Council, our ‘bat walks’, unlike those in many other places, are free to the public – although I’m sure their continued popularity has as much to do with Avon Bat Group’s Stewart Rowdon’s engaging manner as with

Swan and cygnet ringing at the lake in the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve, Bradley Stoke.

Thursday 7th September 2017 SH (Editor)

August in the Three Brooks nature reserve

An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Swan ringing Although we have in previous years wanted to ring our cygnets, we never managed to find a time when both the birds were present or the ringer’s first baby wasn’t making an appearance (welcome to young Freddie). So we were rather excited that this year it

Photo of volunteers from the Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group taking a tea break.

Friday 14th July 2017 SH (Editor)

Three Brooks nature reserve report for June

An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Workdays We were happy to welcome several new members on our last workday, including Dawn Richards who is the local community champion for Tesco stores. We were happy to see her, not just for her generous contribution to our now overflowing biscuit box, but also for her infectious

The Three Brooks swans on the lake with their cygnets. [Photo credit: Graham Bloomfield]

Wednesday 14th June 2017 SH (Editor)

Nature conservation group report for May

An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Otters on the reserve I’m not sure which of this month’s news I’m most excited about. At the beginning of the month, the cat was well and truly out of the bag when Jen Ladley managed to video a family of the reserve’s most ‘otterly’ cute visitors,

Volunteers from the Three Brooks Local Nature Conservation Group with rubbish collected during their Big Spring Clean.

Thursday 6th April 2017 SH (Editor)

Three Brooks nature group report for March

An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Monthly workday and the Big Spring Clean Our planned March workday, working on the marsh, hit a major snag. Although the work we do on the reserve has been agreed with South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) from a conservation perspective, there have been several legislative changes over the

Sunday 12th March 2017 SH (Editor)

Three Brooks nature report for February

An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Workdays Our recent workdays have mostly been filled with coppicing, which is cutting hazel tree trunks down to ground level, so that in the spring, many new straight new stems will grow again from the base. Although it may look harsh, the tree does not die but

Rob Williams cooks hot food for the workers during the Three Brook Nature Conservation Group's hedgelaying weekend.

Saturday 11th February 2017 SH (Editor)

Three Brooks nature group report for January

An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Although sometimes the weather has been cold, there is nothing quite so warming as a winter walk through the reserve, watching the birds squabble over the last few berries and seeing the mole hill tremble as he heads further down underground away from the frost. Apart from