St James's churchyard has a Wildlife Trusts Bronze Award, through the Northants Churchyard Conservation Scheme
Wildlife of the month nature notes:
April 25 - Bumble bees - and a guide to common bumble bees in St James's and the village
and some pictures of wildlife in the churchyard on Easter Sunday
Our surveys and plans
Our wild churchyard - some background, maps and lists - this includes surveys of plants and animals in the churchyard
Our Biodiversity plan, 2025-26 - our wildlife priorities for the coming year
Our grass cutting and wildflowers plans, 2025 (upper churchyard)
Churchyard questionnaire - please have your say of how we can improve the churchyard for all users
Useful external websites:
God's Acre website
Church of England's advice on wildlife in the churchyard
Posters (that have been up in the church) about:
Bats - we have several species of bats flying around the chiurchyard, along with our own colony of soprano pipstrelles in the porch.
Wild flowers - Flower Festival poster - June 2024. Around 100 species of wild flowering plants, grasses and trees have been recorded in the churchyard
Moths - a summary from 2023 and list of macromoths identified
No-mow May 2024
Beavers in the churchyard - the Beavers helped survey churchyard wildlife using camera traps to find out what was in the churchyard after the gates had shut
Some background to our churchyard wildlife