Langdyke volunteer Jackie Robinson’s monthly report from our reserves We certainly are having a sunny June this year! The normally wet areas at Swaddywell have been dry for a couple of months now and the cabin pond is desperately trying to hold on to its last inch of water by the reeds which was good … Read more
A team from Compare the Market – the Peterborough-based firm – gave Langdyke a massive helping hand at the new Christ’s College Nature Reserve site. Langdyke is run by volunteers relying in the main for them to carry out work on ensuring nature is preserved and improved on the trust’s nature site. So when companies … Read more
Langdyke volunteer Jackie Robinson in her latest monthly update asks: Is it the end of May already? With the dry spring most of the water at Swaddywell has dried up but there is still a muddy patch on the tarmac path just down from the cabin and birds have had great fun running through it … Read more
Langdyke Countryside Trust is one of a number of organisations opposing draft plans for a major housing development bordering the Castor Hanglands National Nature Reserve. A letter to Peterborough City Council calls on the authority to remove the proposed plans for the housing development from the draft local plan. Langdyke chair Richard Astle says in … Read more
A new pedestrian gate has been installed at Etton’s Vergette Wood Meadow reserve to give members better access to the site. Later in the summer access plans for members to walk around Christ’s College Reserve (the new site next to the Maxey Cut) will also be announced as part of the Trust’s overall ambition to … Read more
Richard Astle looks back on winter sightings across Langdyke land. And we feature just a few of the many photos from our Facebook group page According to Chat GPT (other sources are available!), the winter of 2024-25, was fairly typical, with slightly milder conditions and average levels of rainfall and sunshine. Tnmperatures were close to … Read more
Langdyke volunteer Jackie Robinson reports on what’s happening at some of our reserves now that some sunshine has arrived … We have seen some changes at Swaddywell with the dry sunny weather. The most noticeable is the drying out of the ponds. The Cabin Pond is perplexing. Full during the winter even with the rainfall … Read more
There has been some cheering news on our reserves with the arrival of lambs at both the Swaddywell and Etton High Meadow sites. Hebridean twins were the first to arrive at Swaddywell, joined later by another single lamb. At Etton there have been three Jacob lambs, one so small it had to be helped along … Read more
Congratulations to Angela Trotter who was one of the first to spot a Turtle Dove had returned to the Etton/Maxey area. She spotted the bird early on Sunday, April 13 on the power lines alongside the Maxey Cut. The sighting (main picture, above) was a good week earlier than those in previous years. The return … Read more
Langdyke chair Richard Astle – awarded a British Empire Medal in the King’s New Year Honours List – has been presented with his medal. In a ceremony in Cambridge the medal was presented to him by Julie Spence, the Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire. He was joined at the event by members of his family. He got … Read more