Sunday 20 July – 4pm at the SinCH Growing Space, Colwich Allotments, Coley Lane All welcome – no fixed charge but donations to SinCH welcome on the day. Ingrid will be sharing her lively travelling tales through lands of impossible language, babushkas, pickled gherkins, her first encounter with a Polish allotment and goats in trees […]
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Bat Walk – Saturday 2nd August at 20.30 Meet at the entrance to Staffordshire Wildlife Trust Wolseley Centre at the gatehouse (no need to book). Staffordshire Bat expert Jane will be be guiding us around the Wolseley Centre and giving us an insight into the species to be found there and the work of the […]
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Meet at the bus stop outside the Lamb & Flag SinCH has helped the Cannock Chase team contact local landowners and tenants who want to do more for nature. Cannock Chase staff have been able to give government funded grants to pay for new hedging, fencing, trees, bat and bird boxes and more. The parish […]
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Chartley Moss is the largest example of a floating peat bog, or schwingmoor, in Britain. The sphagnum lawn supports important botanical communities adapted to grow in this hostile environment. These plants in turn support a large number of invertebrates. We are going in midsummer and may get to see some rare species of dragonflies, among […]
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Join us for an evening talk – all welcome! We are please to have Ron Rock back with a talk about Swifts. These graceful, but threatened, birds will be starting to join us any time now. So it’s a great time to learn all about Swifts and what we can do to help. Ron will […]
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We are very pleased that we are able to offer another guided walk through Brocton Coppice led by local entomologist Jon Webb. Suitable for chilrden of all ages – All welcome! Jon will be giving us hands-on advice on how to spot insects and amongst the habitats he’ll explore will be the spring blossom, mature […]
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Join us for an evening talk – all welcome! We are very pleased to host a talk by local entomologist Jon Webb. Jon works for Natural England, and for over a decade served as a national specialist focusing on beetles, wetlands and woodland. He’s now a Deputy Director in the Chief Scientist Directorate so he […]
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Moving beyond autumn It doesn’t seem like 5 minutes since we were out and about exploring the autumn fungi – from Earthstars, to Smokey Bracket to Petticoat Mottlegills we had a bountiful selection to see. Following our Fungi Foray the latest count of Waxcap mushrooms on Haywood Cliffs is now up to 10 separate species, […]
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Many thanks to the Contact Magazine A big thank you to Pete and Melvyn, ‘Contact’ editors, for accepting our articles, toall of the ‘Contact’ team, past and present, for production and distribution and to all contributors and advertisers. ‘Contact’ has been a great help to the cohesion of village life for 50 years or so, […]
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Many thanks to SinCH members for contributing these photos. Our guide Richard is a local expert in pasture fungi and he has been checking the Cliffs area periodically over a long number of years and he has noticed that the waxcaps appear to be increasing and he suggests this is helped by the new grazing […]
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