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Felbeck Trust
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Restoring and managing meadows, woodland and ponds in North Norfolk using traditional methods.
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Dog roses at West Beckham Old Allotments
June 12, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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Busy scything daffodils, and here's why...
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April 27, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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A Thursday Morning at West Beckham Old Allotments, Aylmerton and all Sites East and West
There was a real touch of spring in the air at West Beckham Old Allotments (WBOA) as 21 volunteers turned up to tackle a variety of tasks – many more and we will need a larger carpark! After the usual...
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April 21, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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February 25, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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A Lazy Wind and Lots More Water
You know a lazy wind? It can’t be bothered to go round you so it goes straight through you instead. This dreich February morning felt colder than the two degrees our party of 10 had been promised as t...
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February 19, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Spurrells Wood Nest Box Work Party
The Spurrell's Wood nest boxes have been monitored for two years (2024 and 2025), nest records submitted to the British Trust for Ornithology, chicks ringed and a few Great Tits have had faecal sample...
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February 19, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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Our latest work party blog...
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Half a work party is better than no work party!
Under leaden skies and with the prospect of heavy rain, 14 of us gathered at Sustead for the first work party of 2026.  With our leader sunning himself in Australia, John stepped in to give us the pla...
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January 20, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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The sun did shine and hay was made
Fourteen volunteers – many of them super-scythers - arrived to help make hay on the Sustead sites on Thursday August 28th. Amongst them was our furthest flung volunteer - Connor from Stafford - and tw...
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September 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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BioBlitz on our Western Fringe
Following our tried and tested routine, we started with a bat talk & walk at Hindolveston, and a moth trapping session at Wood Norton on the Friday evening. We were joined by three members of the Hind...
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August 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Heads and Tales from the Depths of Stow Heath
Another work party, and what a great crowd of enthusiastic volunteers! We were treated to an update by Trevor on all the work that's been done by Dom... continuing our programme of pond restoration he...
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August 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Hunting for Dragons at Stow Heath
On Saturday 21st June we held a mini bioblitz at Stow Heath – the first at this relatively new site and an opportunity to establish a biodiversity baseline. On the Friday evening we did a spot of moth...
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July 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Cakeless in Stow Heath
It was a lovely summer’s morning when eleven volunteers gathered at Stow Heath for Thursday's working party. Many of us had not visited this site before and so Trevor began the morning taking us aroun...
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June 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Fourteen Stalwarts all in a Row
On the morning of June 5th, 14 stalwart volunteers assembled at the Sustead complex to begin preparations for that most important day 72 hours later - the BioBlitz. Anticipating hordes of fascinated m...
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June 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Sustead Common BioBlitz
Felbeck Trust held its fourth BioBlitz at Sustead Common over the weekend of June 7th-8th, with 27 people participating. The weather was rather mixed, which impacted on some of the BioBlitz activities...
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June 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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June 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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We work hard maintaining and planting hedges. In National Hedgerow week we encourage our friends and followers to learn more by following the link below...
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National Hedgerow Week
National Hedgerow Week is a time to celebrate hedgerows, the often-unsung heroes of the British countryside that form the UK’s largest wildlife habitat.
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May 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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May 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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April 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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A Marshy Work Party at Stow Heath
Shortly after arriving to prepare for our corporate work party with the volunteers from Marsh Insurance, Trevor and Ed headed down to the pond area to assess the work to be done, while John and I bega...
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April 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Green Alkanet at Sustead
April 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Springtime Cowslip in Spurrell's Wood
April 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Whan that Aprille …
But no showers (or ‘shoures’) today: instead, warm sunshine flowed down on the ten of us who assembled at West Beckham Old Allotments at 9.00, for instructions and encouragement – not that we needed t...
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April 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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We've been busy in Sustead again, read about it here...
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March 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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A reminder of the @norfolknats.bsky.social training workshop on sawflies I'm running on Sun 6th April. It's at Gressenhall (mid Norfolk). We still have a few places left so please get in touch ASAP if you'd like to attend. Will be focused on microscope-based ID to genus level (at least).
March 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM