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food please get in touch we have gained funding to provide crisis packs for catkins. Lots of plants set pollen into the breeze from catkins. The first catkins are
people in the Parish in a difficult situation. usually hazels and they heartening sight in the dull days of deep winter, especially
as hazel is most often found in hedges and are quite accessible. You may also
If you need this service please email in confidence popinplace@gmail.com and take a closer look at the hazel twigs to spot the tiny crimson tasselled female
we will help. Thank you to Gareth Lynam who is running this project for us. flowers (the catkins are male).

We’d be interested to hear of your favourite early sign of spring springing into life;
Pop In Place Work shop email us at the addresses below.
We are a small group meeting on Friday mornings and do some wood work, There is a succession of other catkins to be seen across in our local area from now
making bird boxes, bug hotels and planters etc we also do a lot of talking and until early summer. If it has been dry, reach down wind to the opened catkins and
drinking coffee. We have completed and refurbished the table tennis table and gently tap the branch they hang from. In a gentle breeze a cloud of golden
that is available for people to play a game. motes will drift away in their thousands, some to be fertilised and to set seed on
other nearby bushes.
If you are interested in coming along and doing any of the above or your own
small project, call in and see us you will be very welcome. Also, take a look at the web link below to help you identify different types of
catkins:-

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2018/12/which-trees-have-catkins-and-
Pop In Place Performers Robin Hood Panto this month … do how-to-tell-them-apart
you have your tickets?
We are in the final rehearsals now of Robin Hood and the Sherwood Performers Let Us Know What Wildlife You Have Seen
and it is a show not to be missed with an all age community cast and sure to
delight even the most sceptic of theatre goers. We will be staging this production To many of us the Little Egret and the
on 25 26 27 January 2024 Kingfisher will be familiar sights along
th
th
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Bere Stream. A recent and new
Tickets are still available from the Pop In Place or telephone sighting in the stream was a
Cormorant, seen diving and
Alison on 01929 472023 We are raising funds for the Southampton Immunotherapy swimming under water in a search for
centre with the profits from our ticket sales. Come along and enjoy a great night food. Buzzards and Kestrels are
of entertainment. frequent visitors at Souls Moor over the
winter period as earthworms are
Pop In Place Move Well Classes forced to the surface by the rising
water table, providing easy and
The new classes start up again in January more details to follow. nutritious pickings. There are also other
visitors that we only see at this time of
Enquiries about the classes can be emailed to me year, for example redwing and
at lucy.cruickshank7@hotmail.co.uk or telephone enquiries can be made via Lyn fieldfare. These are migratory birds
Simmonds on 01929 471528 arriving at our shores from
Scandinavia to escape the winter
cold there. They may be seen on
Have you checked out our Pop In Place website popinplace.org hedges, scrub and woodland feasting on berries, and on grassland and field
For More information call Alison Bennett 01929 472023 margins looking for worms, slugs, leatherjackets and sometimes grain.
We would be very interested to learn about the wildlife (be it birds, mammals, fish,
butterflies, reptiles, amphibians etc, common or unusual) you’ve seen locally.
Please send details of sightings to us at the email addresses below. We are

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