School Holidays - RSPB Pulborough will be holding various family and children events throughout the summer holidays including wildlife walks and family fun days. To find out more click here to go directly to their events page.
The RSPB is the UK charity working to secure a healthy environment for birds and other wildlife, helping to create a better world for us all. They work for the conservation of wild birds, other wildlife and the places in which they live in a wide variety of ways.
The RSPB has:
- Over a million members, including nearly 150,000 youth members.
- the invaluable support of over 12,200 volunteers.
- Resources available for charitable purposes in 2007 was £78.6 million.
- 200 nature reserves covering almost 130,000 hectares, home to 80% of our rarest or most threatened bird species.
- A UK headquarters, three national offices and nine regional offices.
- A local network of 175 local groups and more than 110 youth groups.
West Sussex RSPB Reserve: Pulborough
(Please click onto RSPB website above, for exact location)
Set in the heart of beautiful countryside, this reserve is a fantastic day out for people of all ages. Walks lead through hedge-lined paths to viewing areas and hides where volunteers are often on hand to help with wildlife identification.
If you're new to birdwatching, introductory walks and courses are held throughout the year. In winter, the flooded meadows teem with ducks, geese and swans. In spring, wading birds, such as lapwings and redshanks, breed amongst the pools and ditches, and nightingales and warblers sing from the hedgerows.
A heathland restoration project is already attracting woodlarks and nightjars, adding to the sheer variety this reserve has to offer. With a children's play area, garden courtyard attracting tits, finches, woodpeckers and nuthatches, and a comprehensive events programme, you won't go short of something to do.
There is a well-stocked shop and the tea room has a well-deserved local reputation for the excellent quality of its lunches and cakes!
There are children's events, play area, indoor activities, discovery sheet, Explorer Backpacks.
Dogs are only allowed on public footpaths and bridleways. They must kept under close control.
East Sussex RSPB Reserve: Fore Wood
(Please click onto RSPB website above, for exact location)
A glorious and peaceful Wealden woodland, with fascinating 'ghylls' – steep-sided little ravines in the sandstone – where rare ferns grow. In spring the reserve is a mass of bluebells and wood anemones, with early purple orchids adding to the show.
Many woodland birds are found, and in summer, butterflies such as silver-washed fritillaries and white admirals patrol the paths and areas of coppice. There are good trails around the wood, but beware that paths can become very muddy in winter.
Dogs are allowed on the reserve but must be kept strictly under control.
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