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Tutorial events for kids at Stanmer Park

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Sussex Wildlife Trust at Stanmer Park
If you missed booking a Sussex Wildlife Trust event for your children at Woods Mill, or if the dates weren’t right, then you might want to consider the rather similar range of events at Stanmer Park. For crows, Stanmer Park is much further away from Fulking than Woods Mill, but the travel time in a car is only five to ten minutes longer.

  • Tuesday 6 August: Woods Mill – Watery World
  • Wednesday 7 August: Stanmer Park – Super Shelters
  • Tuesday 13 August: Woods Mill Summer – Groovy Gardens
  • Wednesday 14 August: Stanmer Park Summer – Tracks & Signs
  • Tuesday 20 August: Woods Mill Summer – Terrific Trees
  • Wednesday 21 August: Stanmer Park Summer – Terrific Trees

Stanmer Park booking page.

Terrific Trees

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Woods Mill Terrific Trees

Woods Mill Summer Holiday Club, ages 6-11, parent-free, 20 August 2013

Do you know your beech from your birch or hazel from holly? Come and spend a fun day finding out all about the trees at Woods Mill, what their wood was used for and how they are an important wildlife habitat. Suitable for children aged 6-11 years. Parents/carers should not accompany children. Booking essential. 20 August 2013 – 10:30am – 2:30pm. Please book via Sussex Wildlife Trust or ring 01273 497561. [At the time of writing, on-line booking for this event does not seem to be possible so probably best to phone them.]

Three acres and a cow

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Sussex Cow
Three Sussex cattle have arrived at Woods Mill for the summer and are now receiving visitors in Little Meadow. Reserves Officer Steve Tillman explained why they are there:

Using cattle to control grass and vegetation growth is the ideal way to create the best habitat for a variety of wildlife. Ground nesting birds such as snipe will benefit from naturally grazed pasture as will a huge range of grasses and wild flowers, as well as barn owls who fly over the fields at dawn and dusk searching for field voles.

Woods Mill nature reserve is home to a wide variety of dragonflies including brown and southern hawkers, red and ruddy darters, black tailed skimmers and even the rare scarce chaser. Damselflies, easily spotted during the late spring and summer, include both the beautiful and the banded demoiselle and the powder blue azure damselflies. Grazing itself creates a variety of different length grasses while droppings from the cattle will attract the midges and flies that dragonflies and damselflies feed on.

Update, 5th June 2013: another eight have arrived.