I must take this opportunity to thank all those involved for all their hard work. These events require significance preparation and organisation and I must thank the committee, Jan, Jim and Anne for all their support. Much goes on behind the scenes for these events. It is not just leading activities during the day but putting up gazeboes, arranging chairs and tables, sorting insurance, making sure that orders for equipment are prepared and monitored against budgets, preparing gardens and food, preparing forms and lists, creating guides to bats and mammals, sorting first aid and risk assessments. The list is endless. Without the hard work of our members, supporters and the committee none of this could have taken place. A big thanks to those who made cakes and donated food for the BBQ and a little special thanks to Joe Nunn who seemed to always find the right time to step in and offer help during the day.

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Our aim was to engage members in a way that would help them to appreciate the wealth of wildlife that lives in and around the village. During the day we wanted to accumulate data from observations and other activities that would help us to identify types of plants, insects, birds and animals.

Obviously, it was not possible to cover everything, but an exciting programme of dawn chorus, guided bird walk, small mammal trapping, last night’s moths, a wildflower walk and bat detecting went some way towards meeting our objective.