Category: Flora

Budding volunteers required for wildflower surveys

Southampton City Council is looking for volunteers to help survey the wildflower meadows which are springing up across the city. There will be a three hour training session and the surveys will take place in June and September. For more information and to volunteer please follow this link. https://www.southampton.gov.uk/our-greener-city/how-you-can-help/wildflower-surveys/

Swanwick Lakes Nature Reserve

Recently Southampton Natural History Society had a guided walk to this small jewel of a nature reserve on the outskirts of Southampton. This week a couple of us joined a small group from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust (HIWWT) for a small mammal survey. Swanwick Lakes, once a clay pit for a local