Devon Brown Hare Workshop
On Wednesday the 15th June at 10am, if your in the area, come along to the Malborough Village Hall
for a cup of tea and hear from some of our best authorities ont he brown hare. Guest speakers from the Game & Wildlife
Conservation Trust, Devon Mammal Group and Devon FWAG. Topics include hare ecology, national and regional status, farm
habitat management and survey techniques. Lunch is served at 12.30 and then we all come out to Southdown Farm where it will
fall to me to provide fantastic views of our Brown Hares!!
Booking is esential please phone 01392 364392 or e mail devon@fwag.org.uk to book.
Bolt Head Classic 2009 Fancy
a great day out in some of our best countryside? Why not come
along to East Soar just outside Malborough (just up the road
from Soar Mill Seeds) and have a great day out watching
vintage WWII planes, rides in vintage buses and see classic
cars and motorbikes. The nuclear bunker will also be open for
a tour. Parking and entry is free. For more details please click
this link.
Farm walk 2009 Gordon
Waterhouse will be taking a tour of Southdown farm with the
Kingsbridge Natural History group on the 27th July at 6pm.
Meet at Southdown farm, all welcome.
Our NEW showroom is open we
have, at last, moved out of our tatty, leaky and rapidly
falling down portacabin and moved into a plush new office. Now
we can at last show you our full range of wild bird products
without tripping over the buckets on the floor to catch the
rain!! Please come along and take a look for yourselves, hours
are 9am to 5pm Mon - Fri.
Farm Walks for 2008 two
farm walks will go ahead in the spring. The Devon Wildlife
Trust will have a walk on the 13th April starting at 2pm,
meeting in the farm yard which will be sign posted. We
would hope to see plenty of spring migrants such as Wheatear
and Swallow and if we are lucky maybe a singing Whitethroat or
two.
On the 22nd June a walk will take
place in conjunction with South Devon Area of Outstanding
Natural Beauty to help celebrate the year of Food and Farming.
We should see all our resident summer visitors who will be
well into the breeding season. On the farm, growing crops will
be well advanced and we will be pointing out how growing seeds
for Soar Mill Seeds helps in our conservation policies . Also
if the weather is good you will have a great walk.
New for 2007 in
conjunction with the Soar Mill Cove hotel I will be taking a
group of hotel guests on a weekend guided walk around our farm
and the Kingsbridge estuary. Called "Dream Breaks"
this 4 day break will be a leisurely guided walk around our glorious
Devon countryside while enjoying the four star hospitality of
this renowned hotel.
For more information please visit www.soarmillcove.co.uk
and look for Special Breaks.
We hosted a farm walk on the 24th
September for the Devon Wildlife Trust, their members were there but ALL
were most welcome.
We started the 2 hour walk by
watching one of the juvenile Barn Owls that has taken to
roosting in our shed, completely oblivious to the crowd he sat
there dozing. We were blessed with warm sunny weather although
a little windy, Cirl buntings, hunting Kestrels and soaring
Buzzards were all seen. Good numbers of butterflies too with
Clouded yellows and a Coma amongst the more common. |
