Magnolia blossom on a #tree in Church Lane, #Lewes.

Please consider signing and sharing this petition to repair the damage to the Slapton Line and protect the nearby freshwater ley for wildlife - it is a wonderful feeding ground for Swifts and House Martins! www.carolinevoaden.com/coastal-eros...

Transplanting 75 native whips at Jubilee Gardens, #Lewes to fill spaces in the wildlife hedge we started in February 2021. Grown from seed at our #tree nursery - Hazel, Wayfaring Tree, Spindle, Dogwood, Willow, Rowan, and Oak. Thanks to @LewesDC for the planting permission!

At our #tree nursery this morning to dig up the remaining 75 hedge whips. They are a mix of Rowan, Wayfaring Tree, Dogwood, Hazel, Spindle, and Oak that have grown from locally sourced seeds that we sowed in October and November 2022. Going to boost a hedge in #Lewes soon!

A great day out at Drusilla's - Otters, Beavers, Prairie Dogs, Sloths, Capybara, Porcupines and Anteaters!

Keep the Skies Screaming - an illustrated talk about #Swifts from Edward Mayer of Swift Conservation. Saturday 9th May, 1.30 p.m., at #Lewes Climate Hub. Tickets £5 via Eventbrite eventbrite.co.uk/e/keep-the-ski…

The Great Big Lewes Litter Pick! Sunday 29th March 2026 🚮 Meet - entrance to The Gallops on Nevill Road at 10.30 a.m. 👣 Walkdown the town by various routes to the pedestrian precinct and collect litter. 🧤 Bring gloves and litter pickers + we will bring equipment to share.

Seven more #Swift boxes installed in #Lewes today with the help of the marvellous Dave Boddington! That makes 210 boxes that Lewes Swift Supporters have installed so far! Four of the boxes near existing colonies were installed free of charge using a grant from Chalk Cliff Trust.

Welcome back to the #Swifts parade - Saturday 9th May! Meeting at 10.30 at Linklater Pavilion and walking up to #Lewes Climate Hub for refreshments and activities. All welcome! Bring along a banner, Swift picture, or anything that celebrates Swifts and our Swift-friendly Town.

🌳 Five of us met the Green United team for this joint project of planting a wildlife hedge alongside the border of Ham Lane with Priory School, #Lewes. 🌳 30 people planted 775 #trees - a mix of Hornbeam, Hazel, Dogwood, Field Maple and Alder. ⭐ Fantastic bunch of people!

Another double Peak #Swift nest box at our house in #Lewes today - and painted the older box where Swifts bred successfully last year. We had a chance to look inside at the Swifts nesting space - they had crushed or removed most of the old Sparrow nest to make a very firm base.

Peter Thurman returned to Malling Deanery Arboretum yesterday to continue our inventory of all the different #tree species and varieties in #Lewes. Some of the trees were in flower and, as you may see from his photographs, there were some real beauties!

Cllr. Adrian Ross is in touch with #Lewes Depot Cinema in the hope of arranging a screening of this wonderful film about #Swifts later in the year! theothertaylorswift.org

We were honoured to be invited to the Railway Land, #Lewes, this morning to help the Meadow Minders to plant five large #trees - two Alders and three Hornbeams - on the water meadows. They were a fantastic group to work with and did a great job!

We visited the Liberty #Tree, (Tom Paine tree), on our procession with the Coat of Hopes from Bull House to #Lewes Climate Hub this afternoon. This Copper Beech was planted in 1989 to replace a tree lost in the 1987 storm. www.coatofhopes.uk

A lovely afternoon for our procession with the Coat of Hopes from Bull House to Lewes Climate Hub! Come and see the coat at the Hub before it sets off from St. Anne's Church on Sunday to begin a pilgrimage to the Isle of Wight. coatofhopes.uk

A beautiful English Oak (Quercus robur) on Glynde Levels. Pic taken during my January WeBS count there, with 50 bird species including a stunning male Pintail and two Kingfishers. @webs-gsmp.bsky.social @bhwf.bsky.social @sussexornitholo.bsky.social

The rain stayed away for our Litter Free Lewes #litter pick this morning! We collected 14 bags from around the top of #Lewes - some only half full because they were heavy with bottles. Thank you Jan Knowlson, Nick Jarvis, Colin and Rob!

Beautifully illustrated #Swift books by Helen Lucy available from Lewes Climate Hub 32 High Street, £2.00 each. The Hub is open Wed - Sat from 11.00 to 3.00. All profits go towards keeping #Lewes a Swift-friendly Town!

Drop in at Southover Church Hall, St.James Street, on Saturday 24th January, 10.30 to 12.30. 🥞 Enjoy coffee and cake ⭐ Find out about the work of Friends of #Lewes to keep our town special! 🌳 Discover what makes Lewes an Arboretum Town - one of only two in the country! #Trees!

Deadwood - providing food for Swifts!

Lovely fungi, almost covering this dead #tree in Southover Grange gardens, #Lewes! Deadwood like this supports a healthy ecosystem by providing food, shelter and breeding sites for insects and invertebrates.

From Get Wild-

We are better together. #moss #lichen #trees #nature

“How you doin’?” - this downy woodpecker #bird #wildlife #nature #photography #WoodpeckerWednesday Regimen fascisticum delenda est!

Eucalyptus #tree, on a lovely sunny morning at Convent Field, #Lewes.

Can you help your Society by taking on a volunteer role? We urgently need an Editor for the Sussex Bird Report. We often need species account writers too, so that is another opportunity to help out. Do please get in touch now if you’d like to find out more. www.sos.org.uk/archives/6624

#Lewes Town Council shared an article about the 57 #trees we planted at Convent Field in November to the Sussex Express - thank you!

Welcoming The Coat of Hopes back to #Lewes! #ClimateAction #Hope

Dainty Alder cones, Alder catkins, and "Pussy Willow" just coming out - on the #trees in the sunshine at the Railway Land, #Lewes.

Lovely to chat just now to Nick Eardley on BBC Radio 5 Live about #NewYearPlantHunt on back of our work with @metoffice.gov.uk Plants are blooming out of synch with the wildlife that depend on them: how worried should we be? Catch our chat again here, starts at 17.40: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

We found 18 different #wildflowers on our #NewYearPlantHunt at the Railway Land #Lewes this morning! A lovely group of 30+ people!

The pomegranates are popping on the #tree in Grange Road, #Lewes!

At Southover Grange on 24th December 1983 - Happy 42nd Wedding Anniversary to us!

Still some Small Scabious in flower on the #Wildflower #Lewes path bank at Lewes Cemetery. Wonder what we will find during our #NewYearPlantHunt on Friday 2nd January, 10-12, at Lewes Railway Land? All welcome to join us - hot drinks and biscuits when we finish!

Beautiful reddish bark on this Strawberry #Tree, (Arbutus unedo), in South Way, #Lewes, and some of the white bell-like flowers too!

Marvellous - more #trees in our Arboretum Town - #Lewes!

2025 has been a great year for #Swifts in #Lewes - 25 more Swift boxes installed, Swifts recorded entering 107 different nests, Swift parade to welcome back the Swifts, 10 Swift-friendly Town events, 4 Swift walks, and 7 expert speakers to share actions for nature recovery!

What has our team achieved in 2025? 🌳Planted 63 #trees 🌳Spent 306 hours weeding and mulching 🌳Led 5 guided tree walks 🌳 Held 5 events to promote the value of trees 🌳Recorded 195 species so far on our inventory of all the different trees species we can find in #Lewes!

Large flocks of Lapwing and Golden Plover put on a good display in yesterday's sunshine at Rye Harbour In this photo #goldenplover are higher than the #lapwing @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @sussexornitholo.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who came along to #Lewes #Climate Hub today to share festive nibbles and mulled apple juice, listen to beautiful singing from Starfish and Angels with Attitude, and to share their hopes and dreams for next year. See you when we open up again on 14th January.

A day in the rain - to plant Black Poplars at Laughton Greenwood, near #Lewes, in the morning and a Rowan #tree near Laughton Church in the afternoon.

What a beautiful day we had to plant the last batch of 57 #trees around Convent Field, #Lewes, this morning - four Crataegus x prunifolia Splendens, (Cockspurthorn), six Malus Evereste, (Crab Apple), and one Quercus ilex, (Holm Oak). Great work everyone!

Fantastic attendance of 1,500 people at #Lewes STEM Festival today! Here are just a few of the pendants to celebrate wildlife in #trees, chosen from those made by over a 100 young artists who came to our stall. Congratulations to the STEM team on a very well-organised event!

Fantastic attendance of 1,500 people at the #Lewes STEM Festival today! Over 100 joined us to make bug hotels, colour a #Swift fact sheet or make a Swift pendant. Some children sought us out to find out about Swifts because they love them so much - what more could you ask for?

A photograph of a Swift in Oslo won Asmund Kellen the award of nature photographer of the year: naturephotographeroftheyear.com/previous-edi...

RSPB has announced the bird of the year - Swifts! www.countryliving.com/uk/wildlife/...

16 more #trees planted around Convent Field, #Lewes, by our team today! They are 8 Sorbus thuringiaca Fastigiata, (Hybrid Whitebeam), and 8 Prunus padus, (Bird Cherry). We planted 30 trees there last Sunday and will be back next weekend to plant 11 more.

We hoped that the fine weather over the summer would help towards a recovery in insect numbers, and we seemed to see more while monitoring the #Swifts in #Lewes. However, according to Buglife, their survey suggests a 19% decrease year by year. buglife.org.uk/news/