What we’ve been up to,
and what’s coming next:

Our first event was an owl pellet dissection workshop in February and in April we celebrated national Mammal week with a Magic Mammals event. Visitors to Stanwick Lakes had a go at our Mammal themed nature table quiz, watched trail camera footage of mammals that live on the from the nature reserve and made footprint tunnels for them to take home to record small mammals in their gardens.

At the end of July, the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants team hosted two Beaver enclosure walks at Nene Wetlands and we were lucky enough to spot the lodge the beavers have created, the trees they had gnawed and make our very own beaver dam!

In August we held a “Big Badger Craft Day”. Children and their families made woodland dioramas featuring their favourite woodland animals, used the power of the sun to create a woodland leaf work of art, made their very own woodland mammal identification guide and created a footprint tunnel to find out which mammals visit their garden.

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Growing the group – get involved!

Over the next few months, we will be recruiting more young people to guide and lead the group’s activities as well as creating a network with other organisations to increase the number and variety of activities the group can offer. We will also be fundraising so we can provide activities at a low (or no!) cost to enable as many people to be involved as possible.