Save the Bees, Plant more Trees, Clean the Seas
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Colchester
📍Leisure World, Cowdray Avenue CO1 1YH
Keep Colchester tidy
Sat 14th Sep at 8:45am
Fri 13th Sep at 12:30pm
Colchester Report written by Helen
A great Beewalk today, counting bumblebees for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust. Anyone can create a route (needs to be approx 1k) and count bees between March and October to contribute to this vital data gathering project. More details at www.beewalk.org.uk. Today, Andy and Jo's eagle eyes helped us to spot an abundance of bumblebees - some busy, some less so! Huge thanks to everyone for supporting Colchester's local wildlife and capturing the all important numbers.
photo of Tree bumblebee (bombus hypnorum) supplied by Stuart.
Mon 9th Sep at 6:45pm
Colchester Report written by Ella J (She/her)
Five goodgymers headed out in the darkening twilight to make Colchester a bit cleaner. Five bags of rubbish collected including a very wet shoe!
Hoping our litterpicking efforts encourage a tidier population!
Well done goodgymers, our first session in our new community led format. It's a team effort, come join us!
Mon 9th Sep at 9:12pm
Good one Ellz
Wed 11th Sep at 3:36pm
Nice one team Colchester 🙌
Mon 9th Sep at 6:45pm
Fri 13th Sep at 12:30pm
Wed 4th Sep at 10:30am
Colchester Report written by Helen
Collected five bags of rubbish in total - helping the wildlife and green spaces to breathe a little. Lots of odd items, but plenty of the usual suspects. Spotted a few butterflies, a great tit and some ducks on the river.
Wed 4th Sep at 10:30am
Sat 31st Aug at 11:58am
Colchester Report written by Helen
Completed a Beewalk for August along our local transect. It was a huge relief to see a lot more bumblebees than during the previous two months - we hope this means that populations have recovered a little. Join in with this citizen science project by visiting www.beewalk.org.uk.
Photo supplied by Stuart. We believe this is an Early bumblebee (Bombus pratorum). We also saw white tailed bumblebees and common carders. There's lots of information about identifying bees on the Bumblebee Conservation Trust's website and via their Instagram account.
Sun 1st Sep at 11:00am
Discussing a key switch to Goodgym Colchester being community led
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