Audrey Jarvis

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Hazel flowers, catkins, and leaf buds on the Hazel #hedge that we planted by Abergavenny Road, #Lewes - thanks to a donation from Tree Amigos.

Magnolia blossom on a #tree in Church Lane, #Lewes.

Please consider signing and sharing this petition to repair the damage to the Slapton Line and protect the nearby freshwater ley for wildlife - it is a wonderful feeding ground for Swifts and House Martins!
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Transplanting 75 native whips at Jubilee Gardens, #Lewes to fill spaces in the wildlife hedge we started in February 2021. Grown from seed at our #tree nursery - Hazel, Wayfaring Tree, Spindle, Dogwood, Willow, Rowan, and Oak. Thanks to @LewesDC for the planting permission!

At our #tree nursery this morning to dig up the remaining 75 hedge whips. They are a mix of Rowan, Wayfaring Tree, Dogwood, Hazel, Spindle, and Oak that have grown from locally sourced seeds that we sowed in October and November 2022. Going to boost a hedge in #Lewes soon!

Here's the Capybara.

A great day out at Drusilla's - Otters, Beavers, Prairie Dogs, Sloths, Capybara, Porcupines and Anteaters!

A fantastic speaker who is very knowledgeable about Swifts!

Keep the Skies Screaming - an illustrated talk about #Swifts from Edward Mayer of Swift Conservation. Saturday 9th May, 1.30 p.m., at #Lewes Climate Hub.
Tickets £5 via Eventbrite eventbrite.co.uk/e/keep-the-ski…

The Great Big Lewes Litter Pick!
Sunday 29th March 2026
🚮 Meet - entrance to The Gallops on Nevill Road at 10.30 a.m.
👣 Walkdown the town by various routes to the pedestrian precinct and collect litter.
🧤 Bring gloves and litter pickers + we will bring equipment to share.

Seven more #Swift boxes installed in #Lewes today with the help of the marvellous Dave Boddington! That makes 210 boxes that Lewes Swift Supporters have installed so far!
Four of the boxes near existing colonies were installed free of charge using a grant from Chalk Cliff Trust.

Welcome back to the #Swifts parade - Saturday 9th May! Meeting at 10.30 at Linklater Pavilion and walking up to #Lewes Climate Hub for refreshments and activities.
All welcome!
Bring along a banner, Swift picture, or anything that celebrates Swifts and our Swift-friendly Town.

🌳 Five of us met the Green United team for this joint project of planting a wildlife hedge alongside the border of Ham Lane with Priory School, #Lewes.
🌳 30 people planted 775 #trees - a mix of Hornbeam, Hazel, Dogwood, Field Maple and Alder.
⭐ Fantastic bunch of people!

Another double Peak #Swift nest box at our house in #Lewes today - and painted the older box where Swifts bred successfully last year. We had a chance to look inside at the Swifts nesting space - they had crushed or removed most of the old Sparrow nest to make a very firm base.

Peter Thurman returned to Malling Deanery Arboretum yesterday to continue our inventory of all the different #tree species and varieties in #Lewes. Some of the trees were in flower and, as you may see from his photographs, there were some real beauties!

Cllr. Adrian Ross is in touch with #Lewes Depot Cinema in the hope of arranging a screening of this wonderful film about #Swifts later in the year!
theothertaylorswift.org

We were honoured to be invited to the Railway Land, #Lewes, this morning to help the Meadow Minders to plant five large #trees - two Alders and three Hornbeams - on the water meadows. They were a fantastic group to work with and did a great job!

We visited the Liberty #Tree, (Tom Paine tree), on our procession with the Coat of Hopes from Bull House to #Lewes Climate Hub this afternoon. This Copper Beech was planted in 1989 to replace a tree lost in the 1987 storm.
www.coatofhopes.uk

A lovely afternoon for our procession with the Coat of Hopes from Bull House to Lewes Climate Hub! Come and see the coat at the Hub before it sets off from St. Anne's Church on Sunday to begin a pilgrimage to the Isle of Wight.
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A beautiful English Oak (Quercus robur) on Glynde Levels. Pic taken during my January WeBS count there, with 50 bird species including a stunning male Pintail and two Kingfishers.
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The rain stayed away for our Litter Free Lewes #litter pick this morning! We collected 14 bags from around the top of #Lewes - some only half full because they were heavy with bottles. Thank you Jan Knowlson, Nick Jarvis, Colin and Rob!

Beautifully illustrated #Swift books by Helen Lucy available from Lewes Climate Hub 32 High Street, £2.00 each. The Hub is open Wed - Sat from 11.00 to 3.00. All profits go towards keeping #Lewes a Swift-friendly Town!

Drop in at Southover Church Hall, St.James Street, on Saturday 24th January, 10.30 to 12.30.
🥞 Enjoy coffee and cake
⭐ Find out about the work of Friends of #Lewes to keep our town special!
🌳 Discover what makes Lewes an Arboretum Town - one of only two in the country! #Trees!

Deadwood - providing food for Swifts!

Lovely fungi, almost covering this dead #tree in Southover Grange gardens, #Lewes!
Deadwood like this supports a healthy ecosystem by providing food, shelter and breeding sites for insects and invertebrates.

From Get Wild-

Green blue and yellow orange moss/lichen

We are better together.

#moss #lichen #trees #nature

A downy woodpecker perched on a thin trunk

“How you doin’?” - this downy woodpecker #bird #wildlife #nature #photography #WoodpeckerWednesday

Regimen fascisticum delenda est!

Eucalyptus #tree, on a lovely sunny morning at Convent Field, #Lewes.