Season Highlights
The Blackdown Hills Big Bat Survey 2011
More than 60 volunteers took part in a night-time survey of the Blackdown Hills on the 29th of July 2011 to help protect some of the county’s most precious bats. Organised by the Somerset Environmental Records Centre, the Blackdown Hills Area...
News from the Reptile and Amphibian Group for Somerset (RAGS)
The Reptile and Amphibian Group for Somerset (RAGS) carried out successfully with the assistance of volunteers an adder survey within the Quantock Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The survey was carried out throughout the spring and summer months of 2011 and a...
Fungi Detectives Needed
Keep your eyes peeled this autumn for a special sort of mushroom. The Somerset Biodiversity Partnership is asking for any sightings of waxcaps. All waxcap fungi belong to the genus Hygrocybe and have brightly coloured caps which often also have a...
Volunteers urgently needed!
Help with Brue Valley Living Landscape Survey Records Volunteers are urgently needed to enter paper handwritten records from the Somerset Wildlife Trust’s Brue Valley Living Landscape project surveys directly into SERC’s recording software ‘Recorder’. Brue Valley Living Landscape project is working...
Recording Our Environment
The inaugural Recorders event was hosted by the Somerset Environmental Records Centre (SERC) on the 26th of February 2011 in Draycott Memorial Hall. This event gave us the opportunity to meet people who devote so much of their time to recording and...
The Otter
Back from the brink of extinction, the otter is making a come-back in Britain today. Local author James Williams, a life-long enthusiast of this fascinating, enigmatic creature, dispels some the mysteries in his beautifully-illustrated book, ‘The Otter’. Reasons for the near-disappearance...
Bechstein’s Bat
Almost everyone will have seen bats flying overhead, catching food, on a summer’s evening. But not many people know about the Bechstein’s (Myotis bechsteinii), an elusive bat which may be one of the rarest mammals in Britain. The Bechstein’s bat is...
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