Brockswood's Cotwall End BioBlitz Spring 2022
Garden wildlife week runs this week from the 6th to the 12th of June to raise awareness of the many species you could find right in your own garden! From early morning garden birds to hedgehogs and foxes overnight, monitoring this wildlife is a great way to contribute to conservation right from your doorstep. You might even find some regular visitors to your garden!
On both the 11th and 12th of June, we will be hosting a BioBlitz at Cotwall End nature reserve to raise awareness of the flora and fauna you may come across in nature; this is also the perfect end to Garden Wildlife week.
A BioBlitz is an event where a group focuses on finding, identifying and recording as many species in a specific area, sometimes using binoculars, magnifying glasses, ID guides and other equipment. We will be surveying over two separate days using an app to take observations, whilst identifying species later. You are more than welcome to bring surveying equipment along to help you monitor flora and fauna, be as creative as you like!
Cotwall End is known as a site of importance for nature conservation due to the wide range of habitat types, from grassland to ponds and woodlands to lowland heaths. Turner’s hill also features a geological SSSI (site of special scientific interest) with Sedgley limestone and Ludlow bone bed. It is already known that nationally rare species of orchid and the great crested newt have been found on site, and we would like to make a record of these as well as any other species we can find!
At Brockswood, we are keen to have a better understanding of the many varied species sharing both our sanctuary and our neighbouring nature reserve, Cotwall End, and you can help us to do this so that we can work better with our local conservation organisations to better protect our amazing wildlife.
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