Pond Maintenance
Pond 2 in the Country Park has now completely dried up, the Newts that were in there a few months ago trying to breed have vacated, there...
The Isle of Wight Reptilarium and Terrapin Sanctuary is also dedicated to creating real conservation efforts in our local area, check out this conservation blog to stay up to date with the work we have been doing.
Neil Reed
- Jun 23
- 1 min
Stag Beetle Pyramid
Now we have some freshly cut logs from a dead tree in the country park we have made a start on our first Stag Beetle Hotel pyramid....
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Neil Reed
- Jun 20
- 2 min
Unusual occurrence of Reeves Muntjac deer
Warning blog post contains images of dead animals... Bit of a strange one today, after receiving a report from a local dog walker via the...
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Neil Reed
- Jun 15
- 1 min
Wildlife Recording
Not only do we record the reptiles and amphibians that we find, we are also cataloguing other forms of wildlife we see in the Country...
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Neil Reed
- Jun 14
- 1 min
Palmate Newt breeding confirmed
Had a dip (with a net) in the ponds at the Country Park after we closed yesterday, really pleased to report there were still some adult...
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Neil Reed
- Jun 13
- 1 min
Slow worms Confirmed at Fort Victoria
Its been a few weeks since we laid out the refugia for our herpetological survey of the country park, and am very pleased that after the...
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Neil Reed
- Jun 6
- 1 min
The Great Stag Hunt is on
Really excited that the presence of Stag Beetles in Fort Victoria Country Park has been reconfirmed after a member of the public, Graham...
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Neil Reed
- Jun 3
- 1 min
Wildflowers - Part 1
With over half of the UK's butterflies placed onto the IUCN red list at risk from extinction, the time to act is now before its too late....
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Neil Reed
- Jun 1
- 1 min
Cigarette Butts!
When it comes to beach cleans we dont just don the high vis jackets once a year to a fanfair of look at us cleaning a beach, its...
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Neil Reed
- May 26
- 1 min
Driftwood bee hotel
This morning the sea provided us with a great little piece of extremely heavy driftwood, so i repurposed it into a Bee hotel and...
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Neil Reed
- May 25
- 1 min
Stag Beetle Monitoring
Here in the country park we have great habitat for stag beetles, every year we walk the park throughout stag beetle season (May to July)...
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Neil Reed
- May 25
- 1 min
HIWARG Meet up
On the 23rd of April I met up with the guys from HIWARG (Hampshire and Isle of Wight Amphibian & Reptile Group) and other local...
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Neil Reed
- May 24
- 1 min
Newt Survey
We recently surveyed the population of Newts in our two ponds here in the Country park, really pleased to see both ponds had good numbers...
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Neil Reed
- May 24
- 1 min
Wall Lizards
We have been monitoring a population of Wall Lizards here on the Island, Typically found on the South Coast in Ventnor, these ones are a...
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Neil Reed
- May 24
- 1 min
Reptile Surveys
This week has finally seen the start of our reptile monitoring efforts in the Country Park, we have been unable to get this started for...
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Neil Reed
- May 24
- 1 min
Sea Thrift Planting
In 2021 we started our sea thrift project by replanting one of our planters outside the reptilarium with Sea Thrift, a native coastal...
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