| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Leader: | |
| When: | Monthly on Wednesday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm 3rd Wednesday in month |
| Venue: | No Fixed Abode |
The group meets monthly on the 3rd Wednesday of the month.
The group currently has vacancies.
For people interested in different aspects of nature and have a reasonable degree of fitness.
Walks are led by group members and visit different flora and fauna sites as necessary.
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Group Outings
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17 June 2026: At Seaton Wetlands with Whirligigs & Hairy Tares.
Nature Walks Group: The Butterfly Walk that wasn't. It did seem that this might be an ill-omened walk: Janet was unable to lead; the original Lyme Regis location was deemed unsuitable; we considered the wildflower meadow at the Honey Farm, but were told it had just been mowed out; so,…
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20 May 2026: Feel lichen Knapp?
On Wednesday 20th May a small group of us from the nature walks group met up at Sidmouth cemetery and were joined by April Windle, a local lichen expert.
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18 March 2026: Bowling Green Marsh
Nature Walks: A Spoonbill and a Bluebell but no Bitterns. Today was Nature Walks first outing of the season concentrating on birds. Our programme said it was to be Seaton Wetlands but the Tower Hide still had a little flooding going along the path so when I heard the news…
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19 November 2025: Twisted Deceivers & Weeping Widows
Nature Walks Group at Mutter's Moor Only 5 plus our leader, Stuart Skeates (and please notice not much flesh showing) met up at Mutter's Moor for our last walk of the year. Some of us faced sleet on our windscreens on the way up. Yes very brave souls as it…
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15 October 2025: The Sickener and Plums & Custard
At Nature Walks October’s outing we were concentrating on fungi and my word didn’t we see a lot. We met at the National Trust CP on Salcombe Hill and went across the road onto the lawn at the Observatory.
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20 August 2025: Aylesbeare Common
Nature Walks Group: Ants nests and ground lichen Our August walk took us to Aylesbeare Common RSPB, not that we were concentrating on the birds this time but mainly the flora. It’s a good job that birds weren’t paramount as we saw very few. I always look for the Dartford…
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24 May 2025: Lichen Walk
Nature Walks Group: Searching for Lichen in Sidmouth Cemetery. May’s Nature Walk just happened to be on the first wet day for a long time but April’s (our leader not the month) love, enthusiasm and knowledge of the subject of lichens helped us forget the cold and damp of the…
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16 October 2024: Salcombe Hill Fungi Foray
Nature Walk Group: Fungi Foray. With another dreadful forecast emitted from the Met Office, 8 resilient members of the Nature Walks group met up at Salcombe Regis NT car park, having driven through thick fog and a fine drizzle for a fungi foray.
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18th September: Ospreys over the Axe
Nature Walk Group: Seaton Wetlands. In seach of Dragonflies and cream teas, 10 of us from the Nature Walks group visited the ponds and waterways of Seaton Wetlands. Birds are obviously an integral part of any nature walk and in that repect we were well rewarded with what was a…
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21 August 2024: Aylesbeare Common
Nature Walk Group: Wildflowers of moors and heathland. In search of the elusive Bog Asphodel, which Ed Dolphin had not seen for 45 years...and there they were, en-masse, in glorious abundance, next to the Five Ponds. However, we were mainly there for Dragonflies, of which there were very few indeed,…
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17 July: Lincombe
Nature Walk Group: along the coast path to Lincombe. This morning 10 of us from the Nature Walks group went on a lovely walk with a very knowledgeable lepidopterist, Paul Butter, to see what Butterflies and day-time flying moths were around. We started on the footpath going down to National…
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19 June: Blackbury Camp
Nature Walk Group: the Oak Trees of Blackbury Camp. One sunny June morning a group from the Nature Walks group met at Blackbury Camp to be taken around for a walk with Graham Jones concentrating on ‘trees’. If you don’t know Blackbury Camp it is or was an Iron Age…
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15 May 2024: Salcombe Regis
Sidmouth Nature Explorers: Salcombe Regis Nature Walk by Peter Orchard. Ten of us gathered in the car park of Salcombe Church at 10.00am and set off to explore the flora of the Salcombe area. Whilst flowers were the focus some of us had our eye on other wildlife too as…