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SUMMARY:International Dawn Chorus Day
DESCRIPTION:International Dawn Chorus Day is Sunday 3 May. Wherever you are and whatever you’re doing – the dawn chorus is already happening around you\, whether you’re in a city or the countryside\, asleep or wide awake. \nAcross the world\, people are setting their alarms a little earlier to wake up to the dawn chorus through a cracked bedroom window\, catching it on the dog walk before the school run\, or stepping outside after a late night to find the birds already in full voice. \nThis year\, the RSPB challenging the nation to get up a little earlier on Sunday 3 May and share what they hear. Here’s how to get involved: \n\nSet your alarm to 30 minutes before dawn\, then step outside or open your window to let the birdsong soar over you.\nFilm it\, record it\, or simply take a moment to soak it in.\n\n\nShare what you hear on social media or with your friends and family and encourage someone else to do the same.\n\n\nUse the hashtag #DawnChorusClub\n\nAnd \n\nIf you want to hear it echoing through the trees at first light\, join one of our guided dawn chorus walks at a local RSPB reserve. Our friendly guides can help you put names to the voices filling the air around you\, helping you recognise a Chiffchaff’s call from a Willow Warbler’s song.\n\nTake time to just hear it\, feel it\, share it!  \n  \nTo find out more.. https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/news/the-dawn-chorus-all-you-need-to-know-about-natures-big-show
URL:https://ongarwildlifesociety.com/event/international-dawn-chorus-day/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260503
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260510
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SUMMARY:Hedgehog Awareness Week
DESCRIPTION:Hedgehog Awareness Week is running 3rd – 9th May 2026 – and this year\, you’re invited to take The Hedgehog Pledge ! \nFay Vass\, Chief Executive for BHPS\, said: “Hedgehog Week highlights the problems hedgehogs face in the UK – so we’ve created The Hedgehog Pledge with seven practical options to inspire everyone to act with hedgehogs in mind. \nPledge to:\n\nAdd more Hedgehog Highways!\n\n13cm x 13cm square gaps in boundary walls and fences ensure hedgehogs can access to vital habitat! Create more – talk to neighbours first! Once made\, log them at www.bighedgehogmap.org \n\nCreate\, improve or protect a wild space\n\nLog piles\, leaf heaps and wild edges attract natural food and offer shelter for hedgehogs. \n\nAlways check for hedgehogs before strimming\, mowing or hedge cutting\n\nMany hedgehogs are harmed or killed by garden machinery every year – simple checks before you start can save lives. \n\nGo totally organic in the garden or allotment\n\nPesticides and chemicals can harm wildlife and destroy the food chain. Embrace the wild instead! \n\nBe net savvy\n\nNetting can become tangled in hedgehog spines: make sure sports nets are put away and garden netting is raised 30cm off the ground so hedgehogs can safely pass underneath. \n\nProvide water for wildlife all year round!\n\nMake it part of your routine to check\, clean & refill water sources for hedgehogs in your garden or outside your workplace. Add a few pebbles so bees and butterflies can perch and safely drink too. \n\nBecome an NHMP volunteer spotter!\n\nIn partnership with People’s Trust for Endangered Species\, BHPS leads the National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme\, surveying hedgehogs across the UK. Help classify images taken on specialist trail cameras from the comfort of home! Become a ‘spotter’! \n  \nFind out more here… https://www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/take-the-hedgehog-pledge-this-spring-sign-up-form/
URL:https://ongarwildlifesociety.com/event/hedgehog-awareness-week/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260518T140000
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SUMMARY:A Wild Year at Fingringhoe Wick
DESCRIPTION:An afternoon with Liz Huxley \n  \nFingringhoe Wick was Essex Wildlife Trust’s first nature reserve (1961)\, some years later it was where the Trust opened their first visitor centre. Sixty years on visitors are still coming to see this magical place. Set in a spectacular position overlooking the Colne Estuary the reserve offers a sense of real peace and quiet and a chance to escape from it all.
URL:https://ongarwildlifesociety.com/event/fingrehoe-wick/
LOCATION:Toot Hill Village Hall\, 2 Toot Hill Road\, Toot Hill\, Ongar\, Essex\, CM5 9LR
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260521
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SUMMARY:World Bee Day
DESCRIPTION:World Bee Day is a chance to celebrate bees\, their crucial role as pollinators\, and their importance to our ecosystems. \nYet\, they’re increasingly at risk from factory farming\, land clearing\, and the use of pesticides\, so World Bee Day is also an opportunity to highlight the plight of bees around the world. \nLet’s use this day to protect the bees and\, in turn\, protect our planet. \n\n\nReady for some interesting facts about bees? Let’s go: \n\nBees have five eyes\, two large ones and three smaller ones in the centre of their heads.\nBees and flowers are interdependent\, as bees need pollen and nectar for food\, while plants need bees to enable their reproduction.\nBees carrying pollen look like they have two orange sacks stuck to their hairy legs.\nA third of the world’s food production depends on bees\, as they pollinate three quaters of the most popular global crops.\nFactory farming and pesticides are hurting bees. Though designed to kill pests\, these chemicals are incredibly harmful to bees.\nBees are losing their natural habitat to farming\, as trees\, meadows\, and other plants are being cleared to make way for livestock and crops to produce animal feed.\nBees don’t want to sting you. They’re more docile than hornets and wasps and only sting when they feel threatened.
URL:https://ongarwildlifesociety.com/event/world-bee-day/
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