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Kit Twigg has just done the September bird survey and said that very few species about and not one Blackbird! However, it’s the same in my surveys at Chirk castle at the moment – Blackbirds are shy this time of year during their moult.  It was good to see a Read more

Kath and Ferelith attended the ‘Green Flag’ (Keep Wales Tidy) awards held in Wrexham last week. We are very proud to be presented with the award by the Wrexham Mayor once again. The team has started to cut the long grass in 3 different areas in the churchyard. We will Read more

This month’s bird survey was held in St Mary’s Churchyard on 04/07/2019 : Species recorded (Birds)16.   Blackbird 16 Carrion Crow 3 Coal Tit 2 Dunnock 2 Goldfinch 3 Great Tit 1 House Sparrow 2 Jackdaw 13 Magpie 3 Robin 4 Song thrush 3 Swallow 2 Swift 4 Willow Warbler 1 Wood Read more

2019-06-04-Bee-Friendly-Certificate-St-Mary-Church-Chirk.pdf

The churchyard team welcomed Gwyl Roche from Green Flag (Keep Wales Tidy) on 21st May. We showed him around and explained what we have been doing over the past year and how we go about doing our projects/maintenance of the churchyard. The Green flag can be seen occasionally flying from Read more

Churchyard May new update Bird survey by Kit Twigg 06/04/2019 07:20 – 08:24 Complete list of species recorded (Birds): Blackbird (6) Blue Tit (6) Carrion Crow (4) Chiffchaff (2) Collared Dove (1) Dunnock (1) Goldfinch (5) Great Tit (3) Greenfinch (3) Jackdaw (7) Pheasant (1) Robin (4) Woodpigeon (8)  On Saturday Read more

April bird survey done by Kit Twigg. 06/04/2019 07:20 – 08:24The complete of species (birds) recorded: Blackbird (6) Blue Tit (6) Carrion Crow (4) Chiffchaff (2) Collared Dove (1) Dunnock (1) Goldfinch (5) Great Tit (3) Greenfinch (3) Jackdaw (7) Pheasant (1) Robin (4) Woodpigeon (8) The Churchyard AGM was Read more

March is a fabulous month. Everything starts to come to life again. We have been busy putting a low log edging to the wild flower area near the church hall. The willow weave edging tends to disintegrate after 2-3 years. We hope it will start to blend in over the Read more

Churchyard News – February 2019 Here is the Bird survey for February done by Kit Twigg (see below). Other things to look out for this February, are the beautiful snow drops, yellow aconites, a huge covering of purple crocus and some purple hellebores which are just appearing. The Prunus (cherry Read more