A guide to the wildlife and wild places in the Sidmouth area of east Devon

"For the people of Sidmouth interested in nature and for people from elsewhere interested in the nature of Sidmouth"

This is a personal project and this website is a home for my own records and photographs but I make it freely available to anyone who finds it useful. I am an enthusiastic amateur naturalist and am not an expert in anything so please use the information and data with caution as I cannot guarantee everything is totally accurate!

[This is a new project that started in January 2023]

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Setting the Scene

In this section we 'set the scene' with background information about the Sidmouth Nature project which will help any visitor to this website to get an understanding of the Sidmouth area and how this project seeks to understand how the various sites of natural interest in the area contribute to the biodiversity and environmental health of the Sid Valley. You can learn about Sidmouth itself, how the nature survey project works and how the data collected is organised and presented to a wider audience.
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The Natural Environment

in this section you can explore how the key features of the natural world (geology, habitat, geographic location and management) influence the species found in the Sidmouth area. This function follows a 'top down' approach and you can progress down through the various levels from the starting point of choosing a particular aspect (geology, habitat, clusters and exploration) all the way down to species level discovering a wide range of textual, graphic and audio resources on the way.
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Animal Life

In this section you can explore the animal life that has been recorded on the sites of natural interest during survey visits as part of the Sidmouth Nature project. This function follows a 'top down' approach and you can progress down through the various levels from the starting point of choosing a 'group' of related species (tetrapods, birds, insects and other arthropods) all the way down to species level discovering a wide range of textual, graphic and audio resources on the way.
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Plant Life

In this section you can explore the plant life that has been recorded on the sites of natural interest during survey visits as part of the Sidmouth Nature project. This function follows a 'top down' approach and you can progress down through the various levels from the starting point of choosing a 'group' of related species (flowering plants, grasses and their relatives, non-flowering plants and fungi and lichen) all the way down to species level discovering a wide range of textual, graphic and audio resources on the way.
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The Four Seasons

In this section you can explore how the changing seasons affect the natural world in the Sidmouth area. This function follows a 'top down' approach and you can progress down through the various levels from the starting point of choosing a 'season' (spring, summer, autumn and winter) all the way down seeing what species have been recorded in each month of that season and where they were recorded.
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In Depth

In this section you can delve deeper into the database of records, view some key analysis charts and tables, search the library of articles, podcasts and photographs, and find links to other websites of interest and other bits of potentially useful information. This section is for those who are looking for a specific piece of information about species, sites and the like and provides quick access to the detail contained within the main structure of this website.