The last of this season's planting was on Mar 21st at Butterfly Lane, St Cleer. We will be back in 6 months to check on all the trees. Thanks to our amazing volunteers and to #CornwallCommunityFoundation who helped fund the purchase of tools and hybrid elms. #ForestForCornwall supplied the trees.
On Sat 21st Feb at Treleathick Farm, our volunteers were out in adverse conditions, to put in another 25 trees. Thanks as always to our amazing volunteers and #CornwallCommunityFoundation who helped fund the purchase of tools and hybrid elms. #ForestForCornwall supplied the trees.
Bad weather made us postpone a tree planting but we were back out on Feb 7th to put in 21 trees. We had a few extra helpers!!! Thanks as always to our amazing volunteers and to #CornwallCommunityFoundation who helped fund the purchase of tools and hybrid elms. #ForestForCornwall supplied the trees.
A row of trees being planted at Little Pellagena Farm in St Cleer Parish.
A picture of three tree planters next to 3 trees they have just planted at Little Pellagenna farm.
A group of 4 volunteers holding up tools next to a group of 10 or more trees in green protective sleeves.
A pictiure of a hedgerow with 3 trees planted on top, leading into the distance and a mosaic of green farmland.
On Jan 12th Little Pellagenna farm planted 25 trees in our St Cleer Hedgerow Tree Planting Project. The owner supplied volunteers, we supplied trees/equipment. On Jan 17th our volunteers planted 25 at Treleathick Farm #CornwallCommunityFoundation helped fund the purchase of tools. #ForestForCornwall
On December 13th we began our St Cleer Hedgerow Tree Planting Project. Siblyback Farm & #OxygenConservation allowed us to plant a variety of native species. #CornwallCommunityFoundation & the Carew Pole Trust helped fund this project, allowing us to purchase tools. #ForestForCornwall #TreePlanting
Open Farm Event - Trethinnick Farm, St Cleer - Follow a self guided trail and enjoy 30 years of organic management with haymeadows, trees, galore and abundant wildlife. Learn about the 25 in 25 hedgerow trees project. No entry charge but lovely refreshments (homemade cake) in aid of St Cleer Environmental Group and their campaign to plant more trees in our parish hedgerows. Location: What 3 Words- tenure.took.manly
This weekend - Free Open Farm Event, What 3 Words tenure.took.manly with lots of homemade cake. See a wonderful part of Cornwall you've never seen before. Find out about the work of the farm, and all about the native flowers + wildlife. #Cornwall #StCleer #UKWildlife #Biodiversity #Farming #GreenSky
As part of the Open Farm Event at Trethinnick Farm, St Cleer, Cornwall on Sun 6th July, there's a guided wildflower walk at 3.00pm (self guided tours for rest of the afternoon with boards). Tickets are free but limited (max 20), get them here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/guided-wil...
First Ringlet of the year, 18/06/25, on a bramble leaf
A white ermine moth that appeared on the doormat overnight, wasn’t in a great state but looked the part
A small angle shades moth on the inside of the front door, a lively bugger who shot off seconds after this photo
A comma who just had to upstage the first ringlet by looking briefly like a silver washed fritillary in flight. Lively bright oranges
Two butterflies and two moths who checked in this week, while I was busy doing other things. First ringlet of the year, a white ermine moth, a small angle shades moth and a comma. #TeamMoth #Insects #Butterflies #Cornwall
We're delighted to announce a free entry Open Farm Event, with lots of homemade cake and goodies. See a wonderful part of Cornwall you've never seen before. Find out about the work of the farm, and all about the native flowers and wildlife. #Cornwall #StCleer #UKWildlife #Biodiversity #Farming
Blue caterpillar under UV light on a red oak leaf. Camera doesn’t do the brightness of the blue justice.
Some sort of crane fly in electric fluorescent blue, on red ivy leaves
A rather dull clay blue caterpillar (because I couldn’t get the shot out of the shadow from my camera and hold the torch too) on red oak leaves .
A green spider/tic(?) on red leaves
My continuing search for purple hairstreak caterpillars at Golitha Falls failed again, but found plenty of other interesting sights! 1/2 #biofluorescence #teammoth #naturesky @stcleerenvgroup.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social
We are going to be in Looe on Saturday March 29th at the Looe town council Eco Event Day, giving a short talk on our recent projects. www.looetowncouncil.gov.uk/news/join-us... It looks really good day, if you're in the area come on down and say hello! #Liskeard #Looe #Cornwall #GreenSky
A cleared, and rake green bit of churchyard with no graves and a few small brown patches where the plugs have been inserted. There's already some late crocuses, primroses and celandines around the edges of one several gravestones and tombs in the background.
Three Devil's bit scabious plugs, surrounded by small islets of compost amidst a sea of green.
No it isn't moles. We're helping St Cleer church as part of Living churchyards create a wildflower meadow. Two years of cutting, raking + establishing yellow rattle, so far seeds have failed, so it's plug time. Devil's bit scabious, knapweed, clover + trefoil. Gambled on no frost. So far so good...
Two glowing green fungi on a purple background of moss and twigs
Glowing orange embers of a bio fluorescent lichen on a dark green moss
A slug on a leaf, each of its ridges glows a subtle pale green
A psychedelic glob of purple, orange and blue, actually a dog toy under a fern.
Our first bio-fluorescent walk, co-hosted with Natural England's Golitha Falls NNR team, was a great success, even if it was a bit early to see many invertebrates. We will be hoping to conduct some more later this year at the same location, so keep an eye out! #Cornwall #Wildlife #Biofluorescence
Saturday we were out planting trees (oak + beech) as part of our 25 in 25 project, where we aim to plant 25 trees in hedgerows on 25 farms in St Cleer Parish and maintain them over 3 years. Thanks to 2 farms agreeing to be pilots + Forest for Cornwall for the trees #TreePlanting #NatureSky #Cornwall
Three early wood aneomes out at the base of a mossy tree, drooping over, petals closed to give them a bell or pod shaped appearance. Sunlight breaks through the tree cover in the background to give a dappled effect.
The first wood anemones are out at Rosecraddoc woods. Spring is becoming bolder. #wildflower #Cornwall
Three bright red elf cups peer out amongst some old brambles, brown leaves and moss.
The scarlet elf cups (or are they ruby elf cups - apparently very difficult to tell the difference?) are out again across St Cleer Parish. They thrive in damp patches (plenty of those around here) and in leaf litter. #fungi #fungifriends
A strikingly yellow male Brimstone butterfly amidst brown leaf litter and a sprig of pine.
The first butterfly of 2025 I saw in St Cleer was a brimstone, which hurtled by, so excuse me if I use the photo of a male brimstone I spotted yesterday in Estover woods, Plymouth. Their bright colouring is thought to have inspired the name "butter-fly". @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Savebutterflies
In the photograph you can see the River Fowey running over moss covered rocks and boulders with occasional sections of white water, the channel is overhung by some green moss lader branches. Golitha Falls are more a set of rapids than a true waterfall.
St Cleer Parish covers much of the Southern part of Bodmin moor. Golitha Falls, just outside the parish (wrong side of the Fowey, in St Neot parish), is closer to St Cleer than St Neot. It's a patch of temperate rainforest, where we run events such as bat and UV light walks and a butterfly transect.
After last years abysmal year for butterflies, it's good to see we're off to a flying start!
A pair of bloody nosed beetles on an ivy leaf in St Cleer, one with a notable dent in their carapace, (this actually part of a cluster 10 or more on a street corner in St Cleer, that aren't in the photograph) taken on March 2nd 2025.
Hello, we're another refugee from X, the local environmental group for St Cleer #Cornwall #savebutterflies #mothsmatter #bees #righttoroam #treeplanting Hoping old X followers can find us: @chrisull.bsky.social @kateullman.bsky.social @kernowconservation.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social