Frogs Spawning 2019
It has been quite a long wait this year but finally the local frogs have started spawning. I think the cold spell a month or so ago set them back a little. The pond...
Author: webtech
Extras – March 2019
St. Michael’s Hospice Farleigh Wallop Woodland Walk Basingstoke Discovery Centre – March Events Probus Hears About Thornycoft in Basingstoke Basingstoke Civil Service Retirement Fellowship Thousands of Pounds Raised for Local Charities by Southern Co-op...
Nature Notes For March
Since I wrote February’s notes a variety of weather has hit Southern England – as I write its mild, damp and breezy (10th) yet this time last week I was shovelling 6 inches of...
It Must Be Spring
From Philip Males: Rick, I was walking into town along the railway bank path today and spotted this common lizard out basking. It was exactly the same spot I had spotted one last year...
Glorious gulls, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust
Glorious gulls, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust by Alice Ashcroft You could be forgiven for thinking that gulls are everywhere. In fact, most gull species are in decline and it is only...
Extras – February 2019
Extras that did not make it into the printed magazine for Feb 2019. Make A Wish UK Anvil Arts Basingstoke Discovery Centre Basingstoke Civil Service Retirement Fellowship Linguatastic Basingstoke Lions Club Post Christmas Monthly...
Nature Notes For February
The first European (winter) visitors in the shape of Redwings appeared in the area around Christmas and fittingly it was the numerous juicy red berries in our holly tree that attracted them in. Not...
Nature Notes for 2018
Nature Notes for January Well firstly a Very Happy New Year to you all and I hope you had a superb Christmas break.As you read this we will already be past the shortest day...
Nature Notes For January
From best memory, and with assistance from former editor Irene Allaway, I think I’ve now been writing Nature Notes for some 25 years, or, if anyone remembers precisely when he left the village, it...