A nature festival will be held at a popular Cumbrian tarn.
The North Pennines AONB Partnership, together with Carlisle City Council, Eden Rivers Trust, and Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre, is holding a Festival of Nature at Talkin Tarn on June 18 and 19, 2022.
The festival aims to bring together families, wildlife recorders, budding naturalists, farmers, environmental organisations, and communities to celebrate nature in the beautiful setting of the tarn.
Activities include a guided walk with the RSPB from Talkin Tarn to RSPB Geltsdale, pond dipping, moth trapping demonstration with Carlisle Natural History Society, geology activities, with rocks and fossils, with the North Pennines AONB Partnership, a bat walk with Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre, exploring nature and wellbeing and the Bee Connected project with Carlisle Youth Zone.
There will also be nature spotting tips, species identification, trail camera demonstrations, family games, and a sensory walk.
The Festival of Nature takes place at Talkin Tarn in Brampton, on Saturday, June 18, from 12:00 pm to 11:30 pm, and the next day from 7:00 am to 4:00 pm, entry is free.
The guided walk to RSPB Geltsdale starts from Talkin Tarn on June 18 at 10:30 am.
Places are limited so booking is required, for more information and booking, click here.
The festival is delivered as part of the Fellfoot Forward Landscape Partnership Scheme, which is led by the North Pennines AONB Partnership and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
The Fellfoot Forward scheme is a major project to conserve, enhance and celebrate the natural and cultural heritage of a special part of the northwest of England, which stretches from the Cumbrian fellside of the North Pennines AONB and UNESCO Global Geopark to the River Eden, and runs north from Melmerby to Hallbankgate.
Fellfoot Forward will bring together management and restoration of habitats, such as woodland, peatland and grasslands, with community archaeology, conservation of historic buildings, community arts and education, and is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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