Hedgehog surveys
After achieving Silver Accreditation for Hedgehog Friendly Campus, we are now aiming for Gold Accreditation. As part of the campaign, on the week commencing 9 May 2022, we completed hedgehog […...
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Tansy beetle release 26 May 2022 at Haxby Road Sports Park
On 26 May 2022, we released 48 tansy beetles at our ecology site at the Haxby Road Sports Centre. This is the culmination of a five-year project by the Grounds […]...
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Tree Planting Event 18 January 2022
On 18 January, the Grounds team hosted a tree planting event at the surrounding grounds at Haxby Road Sports Centre. We planted the Wild harvest tree pack from the Woodland […]...
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Peregrine falcon bird box at the top of St John Central Accommodation
Just before the Christmas break, I went up to the top of St John Central Accommodation with Simon and Rob from the Grounds team to have a look at the […]...
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Twig Caterpillar in the Dining Hall Garden
Nadine from the Grounds Team have found a twig caterpillar in the Dining Hall Garden. The Grounds team thinks it is the caterpillar of a Peppered Moth, which used to […]...
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Hedgehog survey w/c 13 September
We conducted our second hedgehog survey led by our hedgehog champions, Nadine and Chey in the Grounds Team, week commencing 13 September 2021. We were joined by Chris (our Students’ […]...
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Swift Nestbox Project
This week is Swift Awareness Week (3- 11 July 2021) and we wanted to share the Swift Nest box Project with you. Rob McCune from Grounds and Neil Hildreth from […]...
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Tansy planting event 29 June 2021 at Haxby Road Sports Park
On 29 June 2021, we held our second tansy planting event to increase habitat for the endangered tansy beetle at Haxby Road Sports Centre. With the help of local volunteers […]...
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Hedgehog surveys
The YSJ Hedgehog Friendly Campus campaign team are aiming to submit for Silver Accreditation this year. We currently have staff from the Grounds & Sports Ground team, Energy & Environment [&he...
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Our Grounds Team on the positive effects of gardening
Gardening has long been linked with health, not surprisingly since it used to be the way we grew plants for remedies for common illnesses. These days very few of us […]...
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