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Free family event Country Comes to Town comes to Swindon for the first time
Wiltshire Wildlife Trust has announced that its free family-friendly event Country Comes to Town will take place in Swindon in May.
Community Activities
Wood warbler
Look for the wood warbler singing from the canopy of oak woodlands in the north and west of the UK. Green above, it has a distinctive, bright yellow throat and eyestripe.
Activities for Schools and Groups
Wildlife Watch Groups
Care Farms
Late Summer Botanical Painting Workshop at Langford Lakes
Led by Sally Pond these Botanical Workshops concentrate on developing observation, drawing and painting skills using seasonal subjects for a watercolor demonstration and painting session.
Survey spectacular stag beetles this summer: Volunteers needed to record sightings of the UK’s biggest land beetle
The British public is being asked to keep an eye out for spectacular stag beetles this summer and record any sightings online, as part of a wildlife charity’s national Great Stag Hunt survey.
Keeled skimmer
The Keeled skimmer is a dragonfly of heaths and commons with shallow pools. It has a skittish and weak flight, and is on the wing in summer and early autumn.
Black-tailed skimmer
The Black-tailed skimmer is a narrow-bodied dragonfly that can be seen flying low over the bare gravel and mud around flooded gravel pits and reservoirs. It is on the wing from May to August.