Events
Upcoming events for Spring and Summer 2024!
Guided Walks
Come and join us on the 9th June for guided walks led by members of the Friends committee. To reserve your place, please email outreach.ospnr@gmail.com
Thank you to all those who took part in our Knitted Animal Trail on 11th May and made it such a great success. We were delighted to welcome so many new visitors to the reserve as part of Bristol Walk Fest 2024.
Competition time!
See the poster above for details of our June competition. All entries to outreach.ospnr@gmail.com please. Closing date 14th June 2024
past events
Capture the Wild 10 June 2023
To coincide with the Festival of Nature 2023, Sarah and Deborah, the Community Outreach Volunteers, put together a free event - Capture the Wild.
For the first time, we launched an exciting Photo Competition with generous prizes donated by local businesses* for 3 categories: U12, 12-18 and Adult.
In addition, we held two wildlife talks:
Meadow Mad by Laura Sharp. Come and discover the amazing diversity in our special meadows.
Butterfly & Habitats Talk by Martin Collins the coordinator of the Butterfly Monitoring team from the Friends of the Downs and Avon Gorge.
Bug lovers were invited to go on a bug hunt in our log piles and those just wanting to enjoy a stroll on the reserve could choose to follow our knitted animal trail.
Thanks to the Bristol Branch of the Knitting and Crochet Guild for contributing beautiful handmade creatures. The visiting children enjoyed spotting them and learning about pollinators at the same time.
*Thanks to Henleaze Garden Shop, Primrose Cafe and the Avon Valley for helping us with our prizes!
THE WINNERS of the photo competition:
U12 - Alexis
12-18 - Jonah
Adult - Emily
Waterfalls by Alexis
Four Ducks by Jonah
Duck by Emily
BioBlitz
On 29 April 2023, we held our very first BioBlitz at the reserve. It was part of the City Nature Challenge.
Attendees joined in with pond dipping led by Sarah and Deborah our Outreach Volunteers, an educational walk on birds led by George, and importantly, recorded a whopping 113 observations of 63 species between 11 - 3pm!
The event was a real success and excellent way to celebrate the wildlife in our urban centres.
Children's Activities
Work with children and young people is a very important part of what we do.
Activities for Rainbows, Brownies, Beavers, Guides and Scouts have been arranged in the past.
Children from Stoke Bishop Primary School with their teachers are regular visitors and further work is being planned with their requirements in mind.
Members also give talks about the Reserve to interested groups such as Townswomen's Guild, Tangent, Rotary Clubs and other conservation groups.
The reserve has also been used for GCSE, A level and undergraduate projects, as well as Duke of Edinburgh activities.