The official opening of the Wildlife and Sensory Garden at Perton Library will take place on Thursday 29th July at 11am. 

  Bug Hunting and Science Fair

Wild About Perton joined Perton Library to celebrate the BBC's Wild Day Out event by supporting bug hunting in the wildlife garden . It was a great success with many children enjoying the activity and a great many bugs were found including 4 species of ladybird , a variety of bees , spiders , beetles ,snails and flying insects.  

Many thanks to Perton Library for inviting us to join their recent Science Fair . It was an amazing event thoroughly enjoyed by all . The door count was over 700 !  We hope they'll be another one next year .

  Pond Dipping and Water Surveys

The Pond Dipping events were well attended and included joining OPAL for water surveys of Upper Lake , Lower Lake and the Penk . Lower Lake was found to be of high quality and had a good range of invertebrates . For full details of the surveys check out the OPAL website.

  Dawn Chorus Walk

Many thanks to Theresa Dorrance , a bird song expert from the RSPB ,who made the event extremely enjoyable ,  helping to identify the bird song that overwhelmed us .

Thanks to Yvonne for opening the library before 7am so we could relax with coffee and muffins and discuss the birds we'd heard . 

 And thanks to everyone who turned up ..... we hope to see you again next year  !

 Here's a short list of some of the birds we heard .... blackbird , robin , song thrush , chiffchaff , blue tit , great tit , tawny owl , dunnock , wren , sparrow , black cap , chaffinch ... and many more .

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 Perton Springwatch Festival held on March 27th at Perton Library has been hailed a great success !

The weather was kind , the stalls , displays , activities and events were exciting , fun  and informative .... and by the end of the day the visitor count was just over 800 ! 

Many , many thanks to all the organisations who took part , to the library for hosting the festival and providing refreshments and to the 800+ visitors who came and joined in .... we hope to see everyone back next year for Springwatch 2011. 

January - March 2010

Look out for the Water Rail on Upper Lake near the boardwalk , he is quite a rarity for these parts apparently . He can be seen most days preening and hunting for food . Keep your eyes open for a Little Grebe which has started to visit Upper Lake . Also 2 heron have been seen catching frogs over the far side of the lake  . Otherwise it's just the "usual suspects" pairing up and making a lot of noise about it ! 

The pochard can been seen on Upper Lake most days now and the Great Crested Grebe has made several visits , so be on the lookout .  The black headed gulls are finally getting their black heads as Spring approaches and on occasion we have had up to 5 swans checking the lake out . 

Please remember , if you are feeding the wildfowl on the lakes try not to give them white bread !  Thanks .

The Winter Wildlife Walk on January 9th was a great success . The weather was snowy and the sun was shining ! The countryside views were spectacular and despite the cold everyone enjoyed identifying animal tracks in the snow and looking out for Winter birds . Thanks to everyone who came .

The recent cold snap and snowy weather has made Perton the place to go bird watching !  Look out for Fieldfare and Redwing as well as flocks [ or charms ] of Goldfinches around Upper and Lower Lake , Bluebell Walk and Penk Meadow . Also keep your eyes open for flocks of Long - tailed tits doing the rounds .

On Upper Lake you may be lucky enough to catch sight of a Pochard and our resident Heron as well as all the "usual suspects".