Wild Beverley

Consultancy and Education for adventure

For Garden Design. Fungus forays, countryside walks, talks, Barn owls, schools, ecological surveys, teaching with all ages, wildlife garden advice, practical advice, outdoor adventure and much more.

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Guided Walks

Join me on walks, or create your own and book me, to learn about natural history, history and landscapes as we ramble.

Food for Free and Fungi are specialties, it may be a birthday treat or a new interest.

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DATES 2023:

4 June
Fallow Field Saturday 2pm

9 June
Stanley Churchyard 7pm for Gods Acre Walk!

17 June
Coton Park 10am Botany Walk

18 June
Minibeast Hunt 10am Darley and Nutwood LNR meet north entrance

1 July
Gala Stanley Barn Owls from 2pm

23 July
Shipley Visitor Centre DANES event pm

19 August
Field Study Centre Intro to Grasses Course at Haddon Hall all day

23/24 Sept
Gloworm Weekend conservation work Stanley Railway

7 Oct
RSPB 2pm Middleton Fungi Foray

14 Oct
Swithland Wood 10am Fungus

15 Oct
Darley and Nutwood Fung 10am meet at memorial gardens

19 Oct
Field Study Centre all day Intro to Fungi at Haddon Hall

28 Oct
Coton Park LNR Fungi walk 10am

5 Nov
Pleasley Pit 10am Fungi

10 Nov
Willerley Woods for Glenfield U3A 10am

11 Nov
DANES show at Brackenhust

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I am taking bookings for next year:
Either for flora in early summer or fungi in the autumn.
All walks lead to the recording of our finds on a local and national level.

October 2020

November 2019

October 2019

Saturday 5 October 10-12
Meet near the Café Beacon Park with Staffs Wildlife Trust

Sunday 6 October
UK Fungus Day 1.30 Markeaton Park (meet point in main car park)

Saturday and Sunday 12/13 October
Fungi Training: book with Derbyshire Wildlife Trust for a one day field work and ID session

Sunday 20 October 10-12
walk from Pleasley Pit café with the bird group

Sunday 20 October 1.30-3.30
Kedleston Park, book with the National Trust

Wednesday 23 October 10.30-12.30
Kedleston Hall: book with National Trust

Sunday 27 October
@ Darley and Nutwood LNR Derby 10-12, meet @ the memorial
gardens in Darley Abbey and park nearby.

Sunday 27 October
hill walking across Crich Chase 1.30-4pm : meet at the train station parking in Ambergate

May 2019

I thank everyone who came on walks this year for the fun-gi’s and fabulous discoveries we made. Key species found were Jack ‘o’ Lantern Omphlotus illudens in Lichfield, the tiny Red leg Club Typhula erythropus at Black Rocks, and Yellow Leg Club Typhula lutescens at Pleasley Pit. Exciting was the Plain Earth Tongue Geoglossum umbratile, The first siting at Crich Chase, a Derbyshire SSSI that includes its grassland fungi in citation. So Entertained BBC Radio Derby with Amethyst Deceiver Laccaria amethysta by torchlight and BBC Radio Nottingham with a Wood Blewit Lepista nuda omelette between bread and butter!

Last week I had the rare Date Waxcap Hygrocybe spadicea at Darley and Nutwood LNR and the colourful Herald of Winter Hygrophorus hypothejus at Kedleston. Thank you

Following the care and release of a swift in the summer, I am currently looking after hedgehogs small and injured

Education

After-school clubs, science lessons and outdoor learning using barn owls, pond dipping, minibeast hunting, bioblitz and more.

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Ecology

Site surveys, management planning, management tasks, advice and action plans to assist your knowledge.

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Wildlife Gardening

I provide site surveys, undertake wildlife garden design, advice and wildlife habitat creation.

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Friends & Community Groups

Contact me for advice, assistance and help if you want to set up a group to protect our heritage.

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Other Services

Fungus Forays

All my surveys are sent as records to British Mycological Society and Fungus Conservation Trust to form important National records for the County.

Funding

I am available for Project Management and Grant fiunding for existing projects, Parish Councils, Schools and other needs to turn your ideas into a reality.

Ranger work

Give me a call to implement security, deliver guided walks or education on your site, either heritage or natural history subjects.

Wildlife Care

Birds, Mammals and other orphans such as Parakeets I will care and release or re-home.

Every life matters.

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