| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Group email: | Sidmouth Nature Explorers group |
| When: | Monthly on Wednesday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm 1st Wednesday of the month |
| Venue: | No Fixed Abode |
The group meets monthly on the 1st Wednesday of the month and is open to new members.
We meet at a Sidmouth location, such as the Byes, for a short accessible stroll aiming to spot and identify as many aspects of Sidmouth's wildlife as possible. We also have a Flickr account where members can upload photographs for identification.
A few photos from our explorations are shown below together with a link to our Flickr Gallery page and the 2024 programme.
Contact the group leaders, Kevin or Malcolm for more information.
Links
Gallery
Click on an image to start a slideshow
Photo courtesy of Paul Gale LRPS
Group Outings
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1 April 2026: Sidmouth Nature Explorers
On Wednesday 1st of April a group from the nature explorers were joined by some volunteers from the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemetery group, for a wild plant and flowers hunt in the wild area of the town cemetery.
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4 February 2026: Sidmouth Nature Explorers
~ Sidmouth Nature Explorers in Margarets Meadow ~ On Wednesday a small hardy and brave group of nature explorers set off around Margarets Meadow looking for early signs of spring. We started with the golden copse, planted during the Queens golden jubilee in 2003. Most of the tree and shrubs have gold/yellow leaves…
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1 October 2025: Fungi Forage
On Wednesday the 1st of October, Sidmouth Nature Explorers had a good morning's walk around Mutters Moor heathland on the hunt for fungi and what else we might find. Birds were a bit scarce, a few blue tits, a pair of jays deep in the woods, a nuthatch high in a pine…
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3 July: Farway Airfield
Sidmouth Nature Explorers searching for elusive orchids. On Wednesday 3rd July, a party from the Sidmouth Nature Explorers group met at Farway airfield to explore the wild flower meadows and hunt down wild orchids. Orchids are a particularly elusive plant, prone to hiding in long grass and not always easily spotted. The…
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8 May 2024: The Byes
Sidmouth Nature Explorers: Riverside Wood & Margaret's Meadow by Peter Orchard. It was a sunny spring morning when about a dozen of us met to walk through 'Riverside Wood' and Margaret's Meadow. Riverside Wood is the name I have given to the strip of woodland between the meadow and the…