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Andrew Padmore
- Oct 30
- 1 min
Quarry Wood Fungi Meeting, 10.30am, Sunday 22nd October
A lovely meeting Sunday of 21/2hrs. with 15 enthusiastic members. Fungi were in good supply, well worth postponing for 2 weeks & rain...
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Brian Clews
- Aug 25
- 2 min
What’s About in Bisham Woods - July
The weather was kind to us for our latest visit to these woods, concentrating on Gouldings Wood, the nearest to our starting place of the...
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Andrew Padmore
- Jul 25
- 2 min
Butterfly Walk - Maidenhead Thicket, 22nd July
…. well, it was supposed to be, but the weather pretty much put paid to that. But were we downbeat? Not at all, as 15 hopefuls joined our...
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Andrew Padmore
- Jul 14
- 1 min
Butterfly Walk - Maidenhead Thicket, 6th July
After this great build up for the walk 4 people turned up. 8 members signed up, but they had obviously studied the weather forecast!...
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Brian Clews
- Apr 27
- 2 min
Bluebell Walk – Little Harwood, April 18th
Some 30 of us gathered at Pigeonhouse Wood, Little Harwood to see what was about and in particular to view the Bluebells, which were...
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Adrian Doble
- Apr 13
- 2 min
Caring for our pollinators
Every year, 2000 volunteers from around the UK record a total of nearly one million bumblebees on regular routes, once a month as part of...
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Adrian Doble
- Feb 16
- 2 min
A house of straw
The sight of three large, healthy, queen Buff-tailed bumblebees foraging together on an early flowering Daphne odora last month, was a...
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Mike Copland
- Jan 21
- 2 min
Saving our Special Species
There are lots of ways that you can help with our projects focussed on specific speciesf. Here are some or species we’re either...
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Mike Copland
- Jan 21
- 2 min
Help us put the word out there
Building a local community committed to protecting our natural world is essential and there are lots of ways we can use your creative,...
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Mike Copland
- Jan 21
- 3 min
Close to home
Here's a bunch of ideas for your home and garden. On your doorstep so no excuse! Contact wildcookham@gmail.com to find out more about...
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Mike Copland
- Jan 21
- 3 min
We can make Great Habitats for Wildlife
Protecting and enhancing nature is all about natural habitats. These are some of the really practical ways you can help us to ensure we...
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Adrian Doble
- Jan 15
- 2 min
A bird box for bumblebees
The bumblebees are all hiding away at the moment, hibernating in secure niches just waiting for the temperatures to rise above 10 C . It...
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Adrian Doble
- Nov 25, 2022
- 2 min
Football playing drones?
The strangely warm weather this Autumn has resulted in many Winter shrubs like Mahonia and Viburnum bodnantense flowering early. This...
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Mike Copland
- Nov 25, 2022
- 3 min
What do wildlife want for Christmas?
With COP27 fresh in our minds we decided that, for this Christmas, we’d ask our local wildlife what they’d like for presents this year. ...
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Mike Copland
- Oct 26, 2022
- 2 min
Nature: the part each of us can play
First, a quick reminder of our Water Vole Celebration meeting on 3rd November. Details on our Meetup site here. It’s a busy time for...
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Andrew Padmore
- Oct 19, 2022
- 1 min
WildCookham Fungi Meeting at Quarry Wood
On Sunday 9th October at 10.30am, 12-15 very enthusiastic WC members congregated in Quarry Wood, in beautiful weather, to try & find some...
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Adrian Doble
- Oct 19, 2022
- 2 min
A penny for your thoughts
A well-stocked garden will still have plenty of colour this month thanks to flowers like Cosmos, Salvia, Cyclamen, Dahlia and Nasturtium....
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Mike Copland
- Sep 30, 2022
- 2 min
We’re celebrating Ratty’s Return
Join us on Thursday 3rd November to celebrate the return of water voles to Cookham’s waterways. The WildCookham project undertaken over...
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Adrian Doble
- Sep 20, 2022
- 2 min
Prepare for a better future
The lengthy period of hot weather put plants and animals under great stress and caused parched fields, dried up flowers, reduced fruit...
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Brian Clews
- Aug 27, 2022
- 3 min
What's About - Bisham Woods
Our WildCookham ‘What’s About’ walks have always been a challenge – to see how far we can get before we run out of time. It’s not been...
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