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Our New Logo
Welcome to the spring Sark Watch ‘new look’ newsletter in-spired by our friends in Alderney Watch and their fantastic news-letter.
We plan to publish the newslet-ter at least four times a year to let everyone know what is going on and encourage people to get involved.
Sark Watch’s first birthday is coming up and it has been a very busy year including nature rambles, rock pooling, bird and bug walks, litter picks, weekend camps and lots more.
We are now looking forward to our second year with perhaps our first members achieving their Kestrel Awards!
Inspired by Alderney Watch Group’s new logo, Class 3 held an art workshop to explore differ-ent ideas for a Sark logo with ideas ranging from guillemots and puffins to lobsters and crabs. In the end it was Lauren’s
beautiful image of a silver stud-ded blue butterfly that was chosen. Many thanks to Roseanne and Sue for com-pleting the logo which we think is fantastic.
The Sark Watch Newsletter
Sark Watch
Committee and
Editorial Team
Ashley Guille
Katie Knight
Esmèe Byrne
Joyce Adams
Mali Chatterton
Yasmin Williams
Mrs Cottle
Roseanne Byrne
Bug Walk 2
Bird Walk and Sea Bird Count
2
Photography Competition
3
The Kestrel Award 4
Poppy Planting 4
Events 4
Inside this issue:
Spring 2014 Volume 1 Issue 1
Watch Out Sark!
Some of the members of Sark Watch who have achieved their Hedgehog Awards this year.
On Saturday 8th March Sark Watch went on a bug hunt led by Roseanne and Penny. It was a lovely sun-ny day with a light breeze. We managed to spot quite a lot of insects such as a six spotted ladybird which happens to have six black spots on its back. On the
cow pats we saw dung flies—YUCK! Then we saw a shield bug. Its back looks like a shield. Cerys found worms which she wanted to keep as pets. Next we found a lot of oil beetles, some were small but others were large. My favourite was a wolf spi-der because it was hairy
and moved quickly. We all went home knowing more about bugs. Thanks Rosie and Penny.
Report by Ashley.
went on a bird walk across the Eperquerie. We found a dead wren which Mali took home to study. We also saw crows, ravens, greater and lesser black back gulls, a razorbill and even a buzzard.
Class 2 did the Great British Bird Watch on the 8th February. We looked for birds for an hour on the school field. We saw 15 birds and they were all seagulls. This was a bit disappointing because on Sark we have lots of dif-ferent birds including robins, blackbirds, blue tits, gold crests, doves, ducks, wrens, pigeons and peregrine falcons.
On Saturday 22nd Feb we
Many people took part in the sea bird count on Sun-day 9th March. Luckily on-ly two dead sea birds were found—a lesser black back gull on Dixcart and a guil-lemot on Derrible.
Report by Katie
Bird Walk and Sea Bird Count
The silver studded blue — a rare butterfly seen in Sark,
although not on the 8th March!
Bug Walk
Page 2 Watch Out
Judges Mr Beaumont and Sue Daly were very impressed with the standard of photo-graphs entered into our ‘Nature on Sark’ winter photography competition.
Here are the winning entries.
Winter Photography Competition Winners
Page 3 Volume 1, Issue 1
Adult Category First Prize Joanne Mahy
A Sark Duckling
Adult Category Second Prize Amanda Grey
Sea birds above the cliffs
Class 3 & 4 First Prize Ethan Lalor
Sark Hedgerow in autumn Class 3 & 4 Second Prize Catherine Doyle
The view from my window
Class 1 & 2 First Prize Esmèe Byrne
The stream at Dixcart Bay
Class 1 & 2 Second Prize Adam Cullen
Sheep in the field
Planting Poppies
• Bug and bird walks led by Roseanne [keep an eye out for dates]
• Activity Saturday –making bird boxes and bug hotels
• Watch activities as part of the whole school camping trip to Herm in July [Create It! Kestrel Award Challenge]
• Sark Wildflower Fortnight
Events to Look Forward
Members of Watch planted poppies, mixed with wild flower seeds in one of the school planters on Weds 19th March. It is hoped the poppies will flower for the com-memoration of the start of World War I on Monday 4th August and that the flowers will attract lots of wildlife.
The Kestrel Award is the second Watch Award and quite a chal-lenge which several Watch members have seized. To achieve the award they must com-plete a number of chal-lenges including a nature diary, creative activities and practical activities to help wildlife.
The Kestrel Award
In the Next Issue
∗ News from the moth trap
∗ Results of our spring wildflower survey
∗ Return of the Guillemots report
∗ Nature Poems and Songs
∗ Poppy Progress
Find out more by checking for news and reports on the Sark Watch Facebook page
Preparing the seeds Keely raking the soil
Joyce sprinkling the seeds
Will this method work? Ashley watering