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Calling all Friends!

Tracy — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:09:55 +0000

Just as we enjoy hearing from our Business Fundraising members, equally we’d love to hear from the Friends of Gift to Nature about their wildlife observations or things they’re doing to help conservation. Please do email us with anything you’d like to let others know about – whether it’s the wildlife you look after in your garden, a comment about a Gift to Nature site you’ve visited, or a sighting of a Mad March Hare – and if you have a photo even better. In fact, even better than THAT would be if anyone could produce a photo of a Mad March Hare helping the wildlife at a G2N site!

Heather Cooper kindly sent in these photos of the Painted Lady and Small Tortoiseshell butterflies she saw last summer. Remember the 2009 ‘invasion’ of Britain by millions of Painted Lady butterflies from North Africa? Who knows what the wildlife highlight of 2010 will be ……..?

Gift to Nature Walks

Sam — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:20:34 +0000

Sandman Snowman

January Sunday 24 10.30am
It’s free and it’s fun, you bring spades and buckets, we’ll supply the carrots, coal and hot chocolate. Visit http://owfhow.xrt.me/ to see fab pictures of past events.
Meet at Small Hope Beach Shanklin
Leader Island 2000 Tel 298098

Ventnor wild food walk

February Sunday 7 1 – 4pm
Explore Ventnor’s land and seascapes and find out about edible and useful plants. Circular walk of about 5 miles. Booking essential.
Leader Rowan Adams Tel 298098
Meet Ventnor Botanic Garden reference library GR 547 768
Cost Donation to Friends of Ventnor Botanic Garden

Celebration: The origin of the Origin

February Friday 12 1 – 4pm
Walk between the hotel and the villa where Charles Darwin (born 201 years ago today) wrote the first chapter of the Origin of Species. There-and-back-again walk of about 5 miles
Booking advised
Leader Rowan Adams Tel 298098
Meet outside the seaside entrance to the Ocean Hotel, Esplanade, Sandown GR 600 841
Cost Donations welcome

Appley birdwatch

February Sunday 28 10.30am
On this bird walk, we’ll look for grebes, divers and gulls before exploring Appley Park for winter thrushes and finches.
Leader Island 2000 Tel 298098
Meet Ryde seafront behind the Waterside pool
Cost £2 donation to Gift to Nature

Gift to Nature Spring Walk – Members Only

March Sunday 28 10.30am
Guided Walk down through Alverstone Marshes and back along the cycleway – woodlands and wetlands full of flowers, bugs and birds
Meet in Newchurch parish Car Park (by the school)

Ventnor wild food walk

March Sunday 7 1 – 4pm
Explore Ventnor’s land and seascapes and find out about edible and useful plants, circular walk of about 5 miles
Booking essential
Leader Rowan Adams Tel 298098
Meet Ventnor Botanic Garden reference library GR 547 768
Cost Donation to Gift to Nature

Troll Trail Fun Family Quest tomorrow – Win a years membership to Friends of Nature all proceeds to gifttonature

Sam — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:14:52 +0000

Join us for a fantastic quest along the Troll Trail tomorrow. Answer the questions as you go, pop into Birchmore Pond to spot the dragonflies. Take it at your own pace, pick up your question sheets from me (Sam) at Merstone Station between 2.00 and 2.30 then head off along the trail answering the clues, some are easy, some are much harder. Submit your answers by email and those with the most correct will win a years membership of Friends of Nature.

The Troll Trail Quest is one of the Isle of Wight Cycling Festival events, for more check out their website www.sunseaandcycling.com