Nature Notes for June 2021
The first Cuckoo that was reported to me at last came from Steve Western who heard one at Sherfield Oaks golf course, so along with his first Swallow ‘spot’ he is chief reporter again!...
Author: Webman
Blue Tits
From Terry McAnish: 30 March 2021 – Waiting for the Blue Tits to finish their nest in my camera/nest box. 20 April 2021 – My Blue Tit, 8 eggs and the male feeding the female....
Nature Notes for May 2021
In all of my years of birding I saw a sight last week which was a first. Sparrows are often nosy around nesting boxes and whilst I have two colony boxes for them, they...
Extras – May 2021
Probus Hears of Three Pyrenean Adventures Basingstoke & Dean Borough Council Restart Grant Scheme Launched Curtain up for Pictures in the Park at new venue #boroughChineham Library Basingstoke Voluntary Action – Memebers’ Update Basingstoke...
Nature Notes for April 2021
Hands up everyone who spotted the deliberate mistake in the March edition of Nature Notes? Yes, I did it again, failing to check details of things I’d seen weeks earlier then publishing them without...
Extras – April 2021
Little Ankle Biters Basingstoke & District Disability Forum Basingstoke & Dean Borough Council Little Ankle Biters top Basingstoke & District Disability Forum Basingstoke & District Disability Forum (BDDF) – your local disability charity...
Female Blackbird Colouring
On 26th August Shelley Nicholls writes: We live in Lychpit and noticed a young female blackbird regular visitor to our garden. At first she had no tail feathers at all but she could hop quite...
Marbled Whites and other observations
On the 23rd June Phil Males wrote: On Thursday I manage to catch a few shots of the first marbled white butterflies I have seen this summer on the Millfield together with some shots...
Discover your wild meadows
by Lianne de Mello, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust Summer is by far the best time of year for exploring your local meadow. Now wildflowers are blooming, butterflies are on the wing,...
Extras – July 2018
Appeal launched to save internationally important eighteenth-century Hampshire tapestries Basingstoke Discovery Centre events – July Disability Connexions – Launch of new group in Tadley 18 July Whipping up a storm Piccolo Preschool Nursery Celebrate its...