Volunteering Opportunites
20/05/2024
By Ffiona Jones
We have opportunities for volunteers to help us provide guided tours of the Park over the summer months. If you have an interest in the history of the site and are able to give us an hour or two of your time either on weekdays, early evenings, or at the weekends, please contact FfionaJones@tywigateway.org.uk for …
Posted: 20/04/2023 by Ffiona Jones
Monthly Wildlife Watch Walks
April 2024 Wildlife Watch Walk, 16 April 2024 Started at 2.10pm, finished at 3.15pm. One volunteer present. It was a sunny, breezy afternoon, warm in the sun, cool in the shade. The established route was followed around the park, starting and finishing at reception. Jenkinson garden herbaceous perennials growing strongly. bluebell and snakeshead fritillary flowering …
Posted: 25/01/2023 by Ffiona Jones
Wildlife Watch Walk January 2023
January Wildlife Watch Walk – 17/01/2023 6 or 7 members of the public joined us on our January walk. Unfortunately, we didn’t have a bird expert with us, so we were unable to identify many of the birds we heard from their song. Despite this, we saw a good number of different species of birds …
Posted: 10/01/2023 by Ffiona Jones
Wildlife Watch Walk December 2022
Wildlife Watch Walk 20/12/2022 This month’s Wildlife Watch Walk was a very brief and shortened walk due to time pressures in the run up to Christmas. However, this didn’t impede the number of bird species that were seen & heard. As we left the Jenkinson Garden, where the spring bulbs are starting to peak …
Posted: 30/11/2022 by Ffiona Jones
October 2022
Wildlife Watch Walk – October 18th 2022 Present: Ffiona & 3 volunteers We started the walk in the Jenkinson Garden where most of the flowers are now dying back, though there were still a number of bees & bumble bees around the flowers still in bloom. As we walked along the northern path we …
Posted: 24/06/2022 by Ffiona Jones
Wildlife Walk – 21st June 2022
Wildlife Walk – 21st June 2022, 2pm. The Bishop’s Park 8 attendees, led by Max Pulford Phew what a scorcher! Bright sunshine, 27oC and light winds greeted the best turn out on the on the longest day of the year. Large numbers of bees (honey, bumble and carder) and hover flies were collecting pollen as …
Posted: 05/04/2022 by Caroline Welch
Wildlife Watch: March 2022
Posted: 15/02/2022 by Caroline Welch
Wildlife Watch: February 2022
15th February 2022 2-3.30pm. With Caroline, Suzie, Huw, Max, Ruth, and Malcolm Another grey day for our February session – but what a joy to have so many expert naturalists on board for the 1.5 hours in the Park today! We were joined by local wildlife enthusiast Huw, also a garden volunteer – and Ruth …
Posted: 22/12/2021 by Caroline Welch
Wildlife Watch: December 2021
Louise, Ffiona and ? on 20/12/21 It was a cold, dull day at the end of December. We noticed bulbs beginning to break through the soil in the Jenkinson Garden – a welcome sign of the Spring to come. Today a climbing rose had just been planted against pergola – the planting of the Jenkinson …
Posted: 16/12/2021 by Caroline Welch
Trees in the Park
While bishops have come and gone, the trees they planted still remain. Some were planted 100s of years ago. We are fortunate at Bishop’s Park to have many fine mature tree specimens. The majority are in the parkland where visitors can enjoy them in all seasons. On the edge of the Jenkinson garden you can …
Posted: 02/12/2021 by Caroline Welch
Bishop’s Park Bats
A total of six species of bats have been recorded at Bishop’s Park including common and soprano pipistrelle, brown long-eared bat, Natterer’s bat, noctule and the very rare and special greater horseshoe bat. We are thrilled that these very special creatures make Bishop’s Park their home and are thriving here. The greater horseshoe bats recorded …