Shallowford Farm

Great day leading a Harvest Mouse survey on #Dartmoor. Recorded the first ever nest for @DartmoorFarm (Challacombe) & potentially first record for the 10km grid sq 🎉 Thanks to @ShallowfordF for organising 👍

Another web found today! #marshfritillary

Just posted a photo @ Shallowford Farm instagram.com/p/CgUbEbpsF-VP…

Join us! Exciting opportunity to work as our South West Landscape Officer, managing our fabulous reserves across Devon and Cornwall, helping to restore landscapes for butterflies, moths and other wildlife. Find out more here butterfly-conservation.org/jobs @savebutterflies @BCDevon

Interesting afternoon at Challacombe Farm(thanks for being so welcoming) learning about hay meadows. Thanks to Ellie @ShallowfordF for organising and Pete @DevonWildlife for sharing his knowledge. The Five-spot Burnet couldn’t help but catch my eye !

This year we have been doing a series of volunteer days for a local project helping the rare Marsh Fritillary butterfly. Read more about it papillongin.co.uk/blog @ShallowfordF @savebutterflies @HeritageFundL_S @dartmoornpa @VisitDartmoor #marshfritillarybutterfly #volunteer

Lots of Beaver-watching on the River Otter with private groups for @devon_wildtours & it has been epic recently! If you’d be interesting in booking a guided walk, contact is info@devonwildlifetours.co.uk

Absolutely nailed it. This is THE Buff-tip photo.

First Marsh Fritillary caterpillars of the year found today with Millbay Academy School! @BCDevon #entomology #marshfritillary #butterfly

A Hummingbird Hawk-moth feeding in slow-motion 🤩 These summer migrants are visiting UK gardens with increasing frequency - in ours they prefer Red Valerian and Viper's Bugloss. A few seconds at the end show it at full speed. #mothsmatter @savebutterflies

@mipblip Beautiful!

Riverside School developing their green fingers last week planting out the celery 🌱 #greenrecoverychallengefund #togetherforourplanet

Remembering Elizabeth Braund MBE (1921-2013) on her birthday. The founder of Providence House Trust and the Shallowford Trust. Her legacy continues in the work that we do today, enabling disadvantaged children to experience Dartmoor, farming and nature. #charity #Christian

What a day! Flabbergasted. Found a colony of Marsh Fritillaries in D&G, seemingly the only ones this side of Argyll and the first in the county in my lifetime! And there were hundreds of them. Absolute gems, and so fresh 🦋😍🦋 @MarshFrit

Join us for a free Marsh Fritillary Butterfly guided walk with @devon_wildtours Sunday 19th June led by ecologist @MattCollis9. Discover the unique habitat and ecology of this rare butterfly. Email ellie@shallowfordfarm.co.uk to book #greenrecoverychallengefund #entomology

June brings a flush of floral life to the rhos pastures. Bog bean, heath spotted orchid, ragged robin and the marsh thistle. The sites are blooming with life right now! #ayearinthelifeofarhospasture #greenrecoverychallengefund #togetherforourplanet #marsh #marshfritillary

Morning moth traps with Riverside School! Privet Hawkmoth stole the show! Also found lots of very sweet buff tips amongst others #moth #greenrecoverychallengefund

Todays adult marsh fritillary survey training led by @JennyPlackett from @BCDevon led to some exciting finds! FOUR batches of marsh fritillary eggs! #greenrecoverychallengefund #marshfritillary

Brilliant team volunteering day squelching through the Rhôs pasture on Dartmoor surveying the vulnerable Marsh Fritillary and the declining Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary. Delighted to have found them both happily coexisting at Challacombe Farm 1/2