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Audrey Jarvis
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Volunteer - tree planting, Swift monitoring, wildflower surveys
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A day in the rain - to plant Black Poplars at Laughton Greenwood, near #Lewes, in the morning and a Rowan #tree near Laughton Church in the afternoon.
December 8, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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What a beautiful day we had to plant the last batch of 57 #trees around Convent Field, #Lewes, this morning - four Crataegus x prunifolia Splendens, (Cockspurthorn), six Malus Evereste, (Crab Apple), and one Quercus ilex, (Holm Oak). Great work everyone!
November 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Fantastic attendance of 1,500 people at #Lewes STEM Festival today! Here are just a few of the pendants to celebrate wildlife in #trees, chosen from those made by over a 100 young artists who came to our stall.
Congratulations to the STEM team on a very well-organised event!
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Fantastic attendance of 1,500 people at the #Lewes STEM Festival today! Over 100 joined us to make bug hotels, colour a #Swift fact sheet or make a Swift pendant. Some children sought us out to find out about Swifts because they love them so much - what more could you ask for?
November 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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A photograph of a Swift in Oslo won Asmund Kellen the award of nature photographer of the year:
naturephotographeroftheyear.com/previous-edi...
November 29, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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RSPB has announced the bird of the year - Swifts!
www.countryliving.com/uk/wildlife/...
The bird that rarely ever lands crowned RSPB’s first-ever Bird of the Year
The bird conservation charity celebrates the winner of its inaugural competition
www.countryliving.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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16 more #trees planted around Convent Field, #Lewes, by our team today! They are 8 Sorbus thuringiaca Fastigiata, (Hybrid Whitebeam), and 8 Prunus padus, (Bird Cherry). We planted 30 trees there last Sunday and will be back next weekend to plant 11 more.
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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We hoped that the fine weather over the summer would help towards a recovery in insect numbers, and we seemed to see more while monitoring the #Swifts in #Lewes.
However, according to Buglife, their survey suggests a 19% decrease year by year.
buglife.org.uk/news/
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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We planted 30 #trees around the perimeter of Convent Field today! Later in the month we have 26 more to plant, thanks to generous sponsorship and support from Lewes District Council, Lewes Town Council, @friendsoflewes.bsky.social, the Mosaic Project, Chalk Cliff Trust and #Lewes residents.
November 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Today, members of #Lewes Urban Arboretum, #Trees Committee of Friends of Lewes, were invited to the wonderful grounds of Northease Manor School to help to plant 165 mixed native whips. Great fun, very well organised, and lovely homemade soup made by Marcus Taylor!
November 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Some of the beautiful leaves we collected from under the #trees at Southover Grange, #Lewes - from the Indian Bean Tree, Liquidambar, Tulip tree, Ginkgo, Chestnut-leaved Oak, Judas tree, and Japanese Maple.
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Bringing sunshine colours on a rainy day - the golden leaves of the Cappadocian Maple, (Acer cappadocicum 'Aureum'), in Malling Deanery Arboretum. So many lovely #trees in #Lewes!
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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🌱 "We are part of nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we've lost our connection to ourselves." —Andy Goldsworthy
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Some of the dazzling autumn leaves we saw on our visit to Malling Deanery Arboretum, #Lewes, yesterday to share information about the #trees with the owner. There were so many different colours and shapes!
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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On a little #tree in our # Lewes garden - Spindle leaves - Euonymus europaeus
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Lots of Serotines, Common Pipistrelles and Soprano Pipistrelles on our #bat walk last night. The hot spot was above and behind two dead trees at the edge of Paddock Lane #Lewes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Another beautiful Liquidambar! This one is at the end of Church Lane, #Lewes, and the carpet of leaves was a lovely reflection of the colours on the #tree.
November 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Continuing our inventory of the #trees in #Lewes- this enormous tree at the front of St. Anne's Church has been identified by Peter Thurman as Phillyrea latifolia, (Green Olive Tree).
November 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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#Lewes Floods Event at the Town Hall today. We're collecting ideas for #tree planting in 2026!
November 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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We're all set up at the Town Hall - ready for the Floods Event on Saturday 1st November, 10.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
- explaining how the #trees of #Lewes play an important part in flood prevention.
October 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Another surprise addition to our #tree inventory!
Tumbling gracefully over the wall of a garden in Rotten Row, #Lewes - Styphnolobium japonicum 'pendula', (Weeping Japanese Pagoda Tree).
October 30, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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"I couldn't believe they found them, it was remarkable."

Volunteers trained by the the Lost Woods Project have discovered a new population of Hazel Dormice in the Weald, at Lindfield, West Sussex.
Lost Woods training leads to remarkable discovery: Hazel Dormice found in Lindfield after near 20-year absence
Dedicated volunteers from The Friends of Eastern Road Nature Reserve found evidence of Hazel Dormice after months of surveying and monitoring.
www.lostwoods.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Yesterday morning we had a lovely walk around #Lewes to map some more trees for our ongoing #tree inventory. With the expert guidance of Peter Thurman we recorded some real beauties, including this Red Oak, Quercus rubra, next to East Sussex College.
October 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Wonderful pomegranates on this Pomegranate #Tree in Grange Road, #Lewes!
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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We've just unloaded some beautiful #trees from Barcham trees for planting in #Lewes next month. We look forward to showing you them properly when they are planted. Here are Quercus palustris, Malus Evereste, and Quercus robur.
October 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM