We run our farm for you to enjoy and as a safe haven for Devon's wonderful wildlife. A third of the farm is a site of special scientific interest (SSSI). This national designation marks Popehouse Moor out as amongst the best sites for culm grassland wildlife in Devon. When you holiday at our lodges and cottage the whole farm is yours to explore and relax in. And we can almost always make time to give you a guided tour of the nature reserve. Thank you for holidaying with us - your stay makes our wildlife conservation possible.
This blog is about our wildlife management as we strive to make the farm even better for our dormice, badgers, foxes, owls, orchids....
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So many froglets - or are they toads? 10 June 11
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Beautiful blue eggs 20 Mar 2011
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Proper snow 18 Dec 2010
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A dormouse ready for its winter sleep 21 Nov 2010
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A grass snake... 14 September 2010
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Close encounters 04 Sep 2010
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Conservation grazing on Popehouse Moor 27 Jul 2010
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crabspider and growing goslings 6 June 2010
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The other hive swarms... 24 May 2010
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The bees swarm 23 May 2010
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Just a taste of honey 2/9/09
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snow reaches Devon 3/2/09
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Summer into autumn 29/9/08
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Greening up 6/6/08
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Goslings galore 22/5/08
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Pipit chick 22/5/08
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Caution, cows at work 24/9/07
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Flowers and flutterbys 30/7/07
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Orchids in Popehouse Moor 19/6/07
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Is it night time yet? 29/4/07
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All aflame, 26/2/07
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We're proud to have gold level approval from both the Devon Wildlife Trust and the Green Tourism Businesss Scheme
Spring wouldn't be spring without frogspawn and tadpoles. We've got some on the kitchen windowsill and that makes them easy to photograph. Here are a few video clips to show them developing.
Some of the best bits...
Devon wildlife on your cottage doorstep
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Winter flowers and a sparrowhawk kill 13 Jan 2013
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Owl stops turbine? 13 Dec 12
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Autumn animals 24 Oct 12
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Cows go home 30 Sep 12
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13 Aug 12
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A placid bee swarm 25 June 2012
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Orchids flower on Popehouse Moor 10 Jun 12
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Buttercup spring 21 May 12
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Orange tip butterfly after rain. 1 May 2012
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A wren's nest and a snoozing dormouse 25 Apr 2012
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Dunnock nest and Easter flowers 8 Apr 2012
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Blackthorn blossom 1 Apr 2012
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Signs of spring 6 Mar 2012
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Snowdrops and a woodmouse 20 Feb 2012
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Goldfinches on the teasels 5 Feb 2012
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First frog spawn 31 Jan 2012
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Scrub bashing on Popehouse Moor 18 Jan 12
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Happy New Year 1 Jan 12
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A fox hunting in front of the lodges 15 Dec 11
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Wheatland Farm
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