The Big (Cowbar) Butterfly Count is back!
Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count begins on July 15th and will run until August 10th. So far, over a million butterflies have been added to the count nationally. The Big…
#NOMOWMAY and Why we need Dandelions
NO MOW MAY has begun! One of the most beautiful flowers to benefit from this Plantlife initiative, now adopted by people and organisations across the UK, is the Dandelion. Its name…
GROUND NESTING BIRDS
Many ground-nesting birds are on the ‘red list’ of birds that need urgent action to stop them from dying out. On Cowbar, these Red List birds include lapwings, curlews, and…
The Cowbar Barn Owl
All through December, we have seen the barn owl out hunting over the Cowbar grassland in daylight. Although barn owls' eyes are specially adapted to function in low light conditions…
Thank you from Cowbar
Many thanks to the Staithes Arts and Heritage Festival committee for another generous donation to the Cowbar Nature funds, via our Buy Me A Coffee page. This is the second…
Raking Day on Cowbar!
Thursday October 17th was a great day: over a mile of verge arisings raked along Cowbar Lane and 27 little gorse plants safely in the ground in just one day.…
Cowbar Verges
Use this link to our page about verges if you would like to find out more. Link: Plantlife Link: …
Honey bees on Cowbar
A tiny colony of honey bees ( Apis mellifera) has build a little nest on a sturdy cabbage plant stalk by the Cleveland Way. They arrived during the last week…
Summer visitors on Cowbar
There are some wild summer visitors on Cowbar. Click here to find out more.