BioBlitz Attractions

What to expect

In the Community Orchard (morning only)

HICOP’s traditional Orchard Breakfast serving 10:30 – 12:00

Hot rolls and pastries and hot drinks for sale. Bring a drinking cup to be sustainable.

BioBlitz Orchard Hub open 08:00 – 12:30

Pick up a BioBlitz Day Programme and for younger visitors the Nature Puzzle Trail sheet/BioBlitz Bingo sticker sheet.

Many of the timed activities will start from the Orchard Hub.

Any questions ask our volunteer team, the Orchard Hub will have someone to help.

Stalls 10:30-12:30

  • Cambridgeshire Mammal Group

  • Cambridge Natural History Society

  • Wildlife Photographer Penny Reeves

  • Greater Cambridgeshire Chalk Stream Project

  • HI Hedgehog Champions

  • Introducing soil invertebrates – see what is lurking in the Orchard compost heap and in the soil under your feet

  • Landscape mapping

At St Audrey’s Close Community Centre

BioBlitz Hub open 10:30 – 16:30

Pick up a BioBlitz Day Programme and for younger visitors the Nature Puzzle Trail sheet/BioBlitz Bingo sticker sheet. Many of the timed activities will start from the St Audrey’s Close Community Centre Hub. Any questions ask our volunteer team, the BioBlitz Hub will have someone to help.

Stalls 10:30-12:30

  • BioBlitz progress – BioBlitz Totaliser, regular updates

  • IVC Mini BioBlitz

  • Owl pellet dissection/display – make some gruesome discoveries!

  • Explore food webs

  • What is flying by night: bird calls

  • How our flora data is added to public data

  • Small beasties under the microscope

  • Operation Turtle Dove

  • BTO Garden Birdwatch – find out how you can join this national citizen science project

  • Photographic displays

Facilities at St Audrey’s Close Community Centre

  • Ramp access

  • Disabled toilet