The Friends of Paxton Pits Nature Reserve organises activities and events to help raise awareness of the Reserve. These include monthly guided walks, talks on a wide range of wildlife topics and surveys of the reserve. Events are free and open to all unless otherwise stated.

Please phone if you have any special needs, in particular, regarding the use of wheelchairs and pushchairs. (Visitors’ Centre: 01480 406795)

Visitors are advised to wear suitable clothing for outdoor events with strong boots or shoes, and hats in the summer sun.

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Beautiful Butterflies at Paxton Pits - a talk by Edward Pollard
Ed Pollard, the county recorder for butterflies, will be talking about the past, present and future of butterflies at Paxton Pits and the local area. [...]
Wildlife Survey Group - The Gully
19 April, 2025    
9:30am - 12:30pm
The Wildlife Survey Group will be exploring The Gully this morning, looking for the plants and animals that live there. This is a friendly group [...]
Guided Walk - Spring Migrants
26 April, 2025    
10:00am - 12:00pm
This month's walk will be focusing on spring migrants.  Whilst on our walk, we will be taking a look at many of the migrant birds [...]
Butterfly and Dragonfly transect surveys
26 April, 2025    
11:00am - 3:30pm
Join us on our first butterfly and dragonfly survey of the year. If the weather is favourable there should be some spring butterflies around. We [...]
The Amazing World of Insects - a talk by Ann Miles
The Friends of Paxton Pits are delighted to welcome back Ann Miles for her latest talk about insects. Ann is well known around the Reserve [...]
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