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Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · 6h

We’re back off to HCR104fm this evening! Listen in to the Over To You programme with Norman Knapper at 7pm. Hope you enjoy our Apple and Harvest Fair-themed music choices. Can you guess what they may be?
@wildlifebcn.org
#AppleDay #peatlandprogress #communityradio #localradio

Danielle and Alison, in black wildlife Trust branded tops and jeans, stand in front of a wall branded with HCR104fm

Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · 10h

Look at this incredible line-up for the Apple and Harvest Fair on Sunday! Will you join us to celebrate harvest abundance, community spirit, local heritage and our wonderful wildlife?
www.wildlifebcn.org/events/2025-...
#AppleDay #AppleandHarvestFair

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Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · 11h

The Ramsey Community Bus is running free shuttles between the The Pavilion Community Hub, Ramsey Library and the Ramsey Rural Museum CIO on Sunday. Please share the timetable with anyone who would find this useful. Thank you! @wildlifebcn.org

Timetable for the community bus on Sunday 12th October. Collects from the Pavilion at half past the hour, from the library at quarter to the hour and drops off and leaves the museum on the hour.

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Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · 14h

So excited for this Sunday's event! Are you coming? Live music, dancing, storytelling, heritage crafts, craft market, workshops in puppet-making and sketching, games and more. Free entry!

Pig Dyke Molly Dancers @pigdykemolly.bsky.social · 1d

This Sunday, 12.10.25, we are thrilled to be dancing at the Apple and Harvest Fair!! You can catch us at the Rural Museum around 11 and 12:15🤍🖤
📸 @greatfen.org.uk

#mollydancing #ramsey #appleday #morrisdancing #folkdance #folk

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Greifswald Mire Centre @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social · 13d

#RRR2025 is in full swing 🚀
“Paludiculture is key to rewetting,” said @tannebergerf.bsky.social at opening.
“Paludiculture will fly in the long run,” added participating @haraldgrethe.bsky.social.
Nearly 400 participants from 🌍as far as New York or the Kalimantan here in Greifswald!

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Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · 12d

Cuddly moss, edible peat and 3D-printed paludi-toys? Sounds like Lorna will be coming back brimming with ideas for our #paludiculture crops from #RRR2025!! Who’d like to see a swan pedalo in the Fen too? @wildlifebcn

A plate of edible peat with a moss sprig

A small tug boat toy 3D printed from paludiculture plants

Stuffed soft toys shaped like typha and sphagnum plants

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Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · 13d

Lorna is out at #RRR2025 – the 4th conference on Renewable Resources from Rewetted Peatlands 💧A fantastic opportunity to share learning on #wetfarming and how to get economic use of wet land alongside carbon protection, clean water, wildlife and other benefits #paludiculture

Conference attendees sit at tables in a square around a room in discussion

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Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · 13d

We're only halfway through the week but Adam is certainly packing in the work! He's been installing peat cameras to monitor soil levels on the restoration land, clearing poorly trees in Railway Covert and learning to drive the dumper trucks at Upwood Meadows! Has your week been as varied?

Adam gives a thumbs up to camera in front of a newly installed solar-powered peat camera in a field

Adam is using a chainsaw to cut up tree trunks on the ground

Adam is learning to drive a dumper truck, looking behind as he reverses

Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · 16d

As we head into astronomical autumn with the equinox this evening, it seems the perfect time to reshare this gorgeous image of Holme Fen silver birch and fly agaric by Andy Cronk

Sun shines through bracken onto fallen silver birch as large fly agaric fungi grow underneath

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Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · 16d

Incredible numbers of these enormous water beetles now appearing at the Great Fen. So exciting when the first one was only discovered last year!! Read more about Great silver water beetles in Henry’s blog www.greatfen.org.uk/blog/henry-s...

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Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · 19d

This Sunday!

Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · 23d

One week to go to our #HeritageOpenDays event at Woodwalton Fen NNR and the Rothschild Bungalow! Step inside this historic building, enjoy the beautiful nature photography being exhibited and join one of our optional guided walks. www.wildlifebcn.org/events/2025-...

Rothschild Bungalow at Woodwalton Fen, wooden thatched building on concrete stilts

Charles Rothschild's desk with entomological artifacts. Image: Sarah Smith

Chinese water deer bounding away, no feet on the ground. Image: Guy Pilkington

Group walking through Woodwalton Fen as the sun rises

Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · 20d

9-5? More like 5-9! First thing in the morning and last thing at night, our monitoring and research team don’t stop in their surveys. They’re discovering which wildlife is making use of the restoration land, as residents or travelling through as they migrate. www.greatfen.org.uk/blog/henry-s...

September sightings | The Great Fen

It's migration time! You never know what you will see, but the regulars are on the move; some just passing through and others are here to stay for the winter.

www.greatfen.org.uk

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 25d

Surveying stoneworts in the Great Fen today... hard to focus on the job with an ever-changing skyscape, a family of Hobbies hunting dragonflies close by and the first tumbling Lapwing flocks of the autumn. Thankfully the thunderstorms passed by on each side of us...

@greatfen.org.uk #birds

View over Ryme's Mere with Soft Rush and Common Spike-rush in the foreground

Lapwing flock tumbling in the sky, enjoying the strong breeze

Ditch containing stoneworts, with dramatic cumulus clouds overhead

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Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · 23d

Stunning photos Sarah! The textures in the Rymes image are wonderful.

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Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · 23d

One week to go to our #HeritageOpenDays event at Woodwalton Fen NNR and the Rothschild Bungalow! Step inside this historic building, enjoy the beautiful nature photography being exhibited and join one of our optional guided walks. www.wildlifebcn.org/events/2025-...

Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · 27d

How do they DO that?? The skill involved in weaving this sling between reeds, making it secure enough to withstand wind and weather and strong enough to hold up to 5 eggs, (and sometimes a very large baby cuckoo), is phenomenal. Bravo reed warblers 👏👏 👌 Isn’t nature amazing? @wildlifebcn.org

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Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · Sep 3

Catherine has worked to promote, protect and restore Fen wetlands for more than 30 years. She will remain Chair of 'Fens for the Future', continuing the development of its vision for the Fens of Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. www.fensforthefuture.org.uk

Fens for the Future

Here you will find details about the Fens for the Future Landscape scale vision for the Fens of Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.

www.fensforthefuture.org.uk

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Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · Sep 3

Three cheers for Catherine Weightman as she retires from her role as Senior Advisor on Peat with our partner, Natural England! Thank you for all your hard work and for continuing to volunteer in the Fens so we don't lose your expertise completely! @wildlifebcn.org

Catherine on the steps of Rothschild Bungalow

Catherine with her very special Lego badge gift. It reads Peat Restoration Minion and features a character from the Minions film.

Attendees sat outside Rothschild Bungalow in the sun. the building is decorated with Natural England bunting

A side plate held in one had with a Fens East Peat Partnership-branded cupcake and slice of chocolate cake. A table behind has lots of cakes on it.

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Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · Aug 29

Struggling to get to sleep? We hear rain sounds can help…💤💤 What a welcome bit of weather for our parched peaty wetlands.

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Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · Aug 29

A work of art!

Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · Aug 28

Incredible find by reserves officer Jasmin! This beautiful wasp spider is weaving an enormous egg sac. Once it’s filled with eggs then, sadly, her work is done and she won’t see another year. But we’ll be on the lookout for wasp spiderlings in spring! @wildlifebcn.org @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · Aug 20

We've also been informed the closure times advertised are untrue and the road was closed all day and night.

Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · Aug 20

Please note, our optional guided walks take place at 11am and 1.30pm. If you are using the bus service, we recommend booking the 11am walk as the last bus will leave before we return from the second walk!

Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · Aug 20

Great news, as part of the Heritage Open Day celebrations in Ramsey, a free bus will be available to and from Woodwalton Fen and our Rothschild Bungalow open day...

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · Aug 7

After a morning of plant id training, a gentle walk round Woodwalton Fen NNR was a perfect counterpoint. Masses of Frogbit in the ditches and Marsh Sow-thistle along the drain banks while Greater Water-parsnip and Greater Bladderwort were rarer treats...

#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Frogbit with round floating leaves and distinctive three-petalled white flowers

Yellow spikes of Greater Bladderwort flowers emerging from a ditch

Flowers of Marsh Sow-thistle with background bokeh - towering over me!

Greater Water-parsnip growing with Common Reed and Purple-loosestrife at the edge of a ditch.

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