• Beaver Watching

  By The Bevis Trust In Beavers, Countryside, Farming and Wildlife, Native Species, Rewilding, Uncategorized | April 19, 2017

  Nick has built a lovely new bench down at Skinny Dipping pond. It gives a gorgeous view of the pond and the valley. In the next couple of weeks beavers will start to become very active in the later daylight hours, usually from around 19.00. It’s the time we love the best, just sitting, watching…

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• Predator Control

  By The Bevis Trust In Countryside, Farming and Wildlife, Native Species, Rewilding | April 10, 2017

  I’ve just returned from New Zealand where there has been a major crisis in wildlife management ever since mammalian predators were introduced in Victorian times. Rats, stoats, weasels, ferrets, cats, hedgehogs, possums, rabbits, hares, pigs, goats and deer all either predate native wildlife or wreck the habitat. Efforts have been made to control their numbers,…

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• Devon Beavers

  By The Bevis Trust In Beavers, Countryside, Rewilding, Uncategorized, Wetlands | March 29, 2017

  Devon Wildlife Trust have put together a wonderful document about beavers and their place in the environment. Click the picture to visit Devon Wildlife Trust and read the report or we do have a limited number of paper copies in the office.

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• In Like a Lion…

  By The Bevis Trust In Countryside, Farming and Wildlife, Rewilding, Wetlands | March 20, 2017

  …out like a lamb, or so they say about March. We are almost into the last week of the month and it’s still feeling very lion-like and the forecast is only set to get colder and wetter through the week. It’s making the reinstatement work very difficult at Ricketts Mill. A few dry days last…

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• New Ponds and Frogs

  By The Bevis Trust In Countryside, Farming and Wildlife, Rewilding, Uncategorized | March 13, 2017

  Really gratifying to see new tadpoles hatching in one of the ponds we have recently made. Toads are doing well here too but it’s saddening to see how many are being killed on the road every night. The herons too are taking their toll. They kill them but then find them unpalatable so it’s a…

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• Grey Squirrels

  By The Bevis Trust In Countryside, Farming and Wildlife, Rewilding | July 12, 2016

  If anyone doubts the damage that grey squirrels can do in a young woodland here is an oak I came across. They have effectively killed this poor thing and many others in the wood. Oak, ash and beech have all been targets. Drew

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