On Saturday, 20 of us went for a walk around Lower Moor Farm looking for Dragonflies and Damselflies. We found Common Blue damselfly, Blue tailed damselfly, Red eyed damselfly, Common Darter, Four spotted Chaser and Black tailed skimmer (both…
Great Somerford’s ‘Team Hedgehog’ were out and about installing camera traps for hedgehogs on the morning of 11th May. This project is a collaboration between Malmesbury and District Natural History Society, Wiltshire Mammal Group and the people of Great Somerford. It…
On 7th May 2024 30 people came to Malmesbury Town Hall to hear about Swifts from Sarah Roberts of North Wiltshire Swifts. Sarah has been involved in bird conservation for over a decade and started North Wiltshire Swifts in 2019…
We are particularly fond of bats at MDNHS headquarters, with two committee members regularly volunteering with Wiltshire Bat Group. We are fortunate in Wiltshire to be a bat ‘hotspot’ in Britain, hosting almost all of our 17 native breeding bat species. …
On Saturday 13th January a group of us went on a walk looking for signs of beavers along the Avon at Malmesbury. The purpose of the walk was to train everyone present on what signs beavers leave behind so that we…
On the Saturday 25th November, Malmesbury and District Natural History Society, in partnership with Wiltshire Mammal Group, Salisbury & District Natural History Society and Tisbury Natural History Society, delivered two owl pellet workshops, with the brilliant Skull Bloke Ric Maurice.…