Buxton Heath
There’s nothing like a walk on a sun-blasted heath to gain a sense of our once remote and wild countryside. This beautiful reserve is a wonderful example of heathland restoration.
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Green tiger beetle
A ferocious and agile predator, the green tiger beetle hunts spiders, ants and caterpillars on heaths, grasslands and sand dunes. It is one of our fastest insects and a dazzling metallic green…
Garden tiger moth
The garden tiger is an attractive, brown-and-white moth of sand dunes, woodland edges, meadows and hedgerows; it will also visit gardens. In decline, it is suffering from the 'tidying up…
Scarlet tiger
This beautiful moth is often found resting on leaves, though it does also fly during the day.
Cley Book Group (12 June)
Our book group meets 6 weekly to discuss a range of fiction and non- fiction books with themes of nature and environment.
Heath bumblebee
The Heath bumblebee is not only found on heathland, but also in gardens and parks. It nests in small colonies of less than 100 workers in all kinds of spots, such as old birds' nests, mossy…
Small heath
The small heath is the smallest of our brown butterflies and has a fluttering flight. It favours heathlands, as its name suggests, as well as other sunny habitats.
Heath fritillary
The rare heath fritillary was on the brink of extinction in the 1970s, but conservation action turned its fortunes around. It is still confined to a small number of sites in the south of England,…
Thetford Heath
A designated National Nature Reserve, Thetford Heath is an excellent example of the vast grassland heath that once covered the Brecklands.
Cross-leaved heath
Cross-leaved heath is a type of heather that likes bogs, heathland and moorland. It has distinctive pink, bell-shaped flowers that attract all kinds of nectar-loving insects.
Weeting Heath
The stony ground and close-cropped turf of Weeting Heath is one of the best sites in the country to see the rare and strange-looking stone curlew. It is also home to many rare Breckland plants.…
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