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Craig Dunton, right, with harvested wildflower seed
- Credit: Robbie Phillips
Two new community groups for East Devon and the Blackdown Hills aim to support landowners and gardeners keen to restore or create wildflower meadows.
The local More Meadows groups are based on the successful Moor Meadows Dartmoor community, which since its founding in 2015 has grown to include more than 800 meadow-makers, managing more than 1,000 acres of wildflower meadow to benefit wild plants and wildlife on Dartmoor and beyond.
Thanks to funding from Devon Environment Foundation, the More Meadows concept is an attempt to replicate the original Moor Meadows group’s success by supporting new networks of meadow-makers across Devon.
Rare photos reveal U.K.’s disappearing ‘whispering’ bats Cordilia James
A gray big-eared bat
(Plecotus austriacus) emerges from its roost in a barn in Devon, England. It s the rarest bat still breeding in the U.K. today. They re are sensitive to light, so the photographer used red light filters to avoid disturbing them.
In an old stone barn on an organic farm in Devon, England, live lesser horseshoe bats, noctule bats, whiskered bats, and more. Each night during the summer, they emerge from their maternal roost to hunt for moths, flies, and other insects. For nearly two months last summer, they had an audience.
Rare photos reveal U.K.’s disappearing ‘whispering’ bats Cordilia James
A gray big-eared bat
(Plecotus austriacus) emerges from its roost in a barn in Devon, England. It s the rarest bat still breeding in the U.K. today. They re are sensitive to light, so the photographer used red light filters to avoid disturbing them.
In an old stone barn on an organic farm in Devon, England, live lesser horseshoe bats, noctule bats, whiskered bats, and more. Each night during the summer, they emerge from their maternal roost to hunt for moths, flies, and other insects. For nearly two months last summer, they had an audience.