What is the source of this mysterious alien jelly in Attenborough Arboretum? If you’ve been missing Autumnwatch on the telly after the BBC cancelled it, you may have been catching up with Chris Packham’s free online alternative, 8 Out Of 10 Bats on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@8OutOf10Bats If you’ve been watching the series you’ll already know the […]
Author: Knighton Wild
Otters in the Washbrook? REALLY?
Our next talk will be on Thursday October 19th at 7.30pm. The Washbrook Otter monitoring group have been visiting sites up and down the Washbrook over the past year. You can read their reports on the website. After the interest shown in their display at the Knighton Wild open morning in the summer, the group […]
Connect with nature with our new bench on Knighton Green
The bench was made possible due to a generous donation from Jenny Darragh in memory of her husband Andy who was born and brought up in Knighton. You can read about Andy and Jenny here. The first job was finding a big enough piece of wood to make a suitable bench. There were no suitable […]
A new bench on Knighton Green: thanks to Andy and Jenny
Earlier this year we got an email from someone called Jenny Darragh in Canada. Her husband Andy had died recently and he had told her about growing up in Knighton in the middle of the last century. Jenny wanted to make a donation in Andy’s memory of a special place in his childhood. After an […]
Otter monitoring June 2023
The second otter survey of the Saffron Brook took place on Friday June 16th. The conditions were very different from the last time, there having been no rain for about three weeks apart from a heavy thunderstorm four days previously. The temperature when we started at 10 am was already 18 degrees and was only […]
Open Morning on Knighton Green Saturday 19th August
We organised a very successful open morning on Knighton Green Saturday 19th August. There was a good attendance especially from families with young children. There was a wide range of activities for all ages so do come and join in. The event was free but donations of over £50 were made to support the work […]
Knighton Nature Notes 10: Have you seen Vanessa
Inspite of the rain, there have been a lot of Red Admiral Butterflies around. That’s nice, but why? Butterfly Conservation says that their annual Big Butterfly Count in July recorded a four-fold increase in sightings of the Red Admiral, Vanessa atalanta. Certainly we seem to have had more Red Admirals in Knighton than in recent […]
It’s Your Neighbourhood assessment 2023
Each year we get a visit from an It’s Your Neighbourhood assessor to look at our work on Knighton Green, St Mary’s churchyard and Carisbrooke Road triangle. This year Liz Fairfield was our assessor and visited on 31st July and met Nicky, Marietta and me. The Saturday before the visit a group of volunteers worked […]
Mammal Spotter Competition – August 2023
Leicestershire and Rutland Mammals Group is running a competition to get people to record as many mammals as possible during the course of August 2023. The competition is run in conjunction with NatureSpot, where participants can record what they see, and aims to get as many people sending in records of mammals in Leicester, Leicestershire […]
Knighton Nature Notes 9: At last a few more insects in Knighton
After what seemed like a very long wait, the insects finally returned to Knighton in June. Spring 2023 seemed to be buried under a mountain of aphids – you may have noticed the sticky “honeydew” everywhere (exacerbated by the lack of rain). Finally in June the predators started to catch up. Ladybird pupae were abundant […]
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