Tag: Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group

An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. May has been a rollercoaster month of highs and lows for us on the reserve. The highs have included watching the mallard guide her ten tiny ducklings through the weir and onto the lake and the glorious bluebells that are carpeting our woodlands, enjoying, like us, the

An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. First, our most ‘eggciting’ news – on 2nd April, Brooke our female swan (pen) laid her first egg! Our bird expert Rob Williams says: “Eggs are laid at roughly two day intervals and are brooded by both parents, who take it in turns to sit whilst the

An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. The plan for our March workday was to improve the wetlands (the area by the Braydon gate entrance). We welcomed two newbies, Emma and Megan, and then headed off to the marsh, with a sort of plan! We’ve bought a book on wetland management but haven’t read

An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Our January workday was, as always, two hedge-laying workdays instead of one day. Using traditional methods, we continued laying a hedge along the length of Bradley Stoke Way. To all of you who saw it, we know it looks brutal and you may think the trees won’t

An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Reports from the Public Money raised from our calendar sales was used to buy some more chest waders, which turned out to be a timely purchase… We were told one of the paths around the tump was completely flooded and went to investigate; after clearing the 10ft

An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. We’ve had a very busy couple of months on the reserve, as well as the usual maintenance work, meetings, training courses and organising public walks we’ve added dog rescue and calendars to our résumé! Owl prowl and bird boxes We were lucky enough to have Chris Sperring

A report by Sara Messenger of TBNCG. The Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group (TBNCG) was ten years old in September and celebrated by downing tools early and having a bit of a party by the lake. The picnic kicked off with the shortest introduction by the Chair (his words not mine!) followed by our birthday cake being cut by the Chair of

An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Swans Bradley & Brooke We are delighted with the progress of our two cygnets who are now almost the size of their parents. We do not know what happened to the third cygnet but at the same time it disappeared, Brooke sustained a leg injury. We are

An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Swans and cygnets By now we’re sure you all know that our mute swans Bradley & Brooke have, from their seven eggs, hatched three cygnets! We’re rather chuffed with them – and with the ducklings, grebe and moorhen chicks that can be seen at the lake. We had made

An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. For our February workday we had planned to coppice ‘Scholars Copse,’ the area of woodland behind the Community school, but because of Ash Dieback disease, authorities are still suggesting that ash trees are only felled if they are unsafe. So the group headed off to Bluebell Bridge, to continue