At St Peter’s Church Horningsea:
Love Your Burial Ground/Churches Count on Nature Week: 5 – 13 June 2021
Join in with the Friends of Horningsea Church and take part in the national “Churches Count on Nature” week. The idea is to see how much wildlife we can find in our churchyard.
The national organisers have described churchyards as part of the largest “National Park” in the country. If you have an odd half hour at any time during the week from Saturday 5 to Sunday 13 June please go along to the Church and collect a “log sheet” from the porch to record what you can see.
You can look for birds, insects (ants? spiders? bees/ butterflies? moths?), flowers, fungi, mammals (hedgehogs? foxes? bats?). Try going at different times of day as it will be interesting to see what can be found early in the morning or late at night. In the porch you will find some I-Spy books and leaflets to help identify what you find.
On Sunday 13 June from 2pm:
An afternoon exploring the churchyard together, hopefully with a Zoology student to help identify the species we see. Botanists, birdwatchers … are all encouraged to come along. We hope to restart the Bug Hotel building – perhaps some bugs have taken residence in the wood we left in the churchyard 18 months ago.
Look forward to seeing you then…