Deer Sprouts
From Tim Shapland: Backing on to the Lychpit, as we do, we get quite a few visitors of varying natures, with this one looking decidedly bashful when he realised he had been spotted. We’d...
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Garden antics
From Terry McAnish: Had a Squirrel and male Chaffinch together and had to tell my pheasant off for trying to eat my greenhouse!
Nature Notes for February 2021
So here we are again, lock-down number 3, though it feels like we have never really been out of one. Trouble is this time that lovely walk or bike ride wearing just shorts and...
Nature Notes For 2020
NATURE NOTES FOR JANUARY It is always odd writing for sometimes a month in advance of a date you might read said article but when it’s a whole New Year now that is weird!...
Nature Notes For January 2021
I do hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, as far it was allowed, and that you perhaps enjoyed your own Boxing Day walk seeing as the organised event had to be shelved. We...
Nature Notes For December 2020
So, as I write we are just entering another lock-down period and I hope as you are reading this, we are just coming back out of it! The year 2020 is certainly one that will...
Blue Tit
From Terry McAnish: I have a Blue Tit sleeping in my camera nest box each night from 4:15pm till 7am next day, gets more sleep than me! Got some great video shots of it.
Nature Notes For November 2020
I’ve frequently mentioned that part of the joy of angling is that one sees so much nature when you’re sat quietly by a lake or river. That includes the shy, the pretty and the scary, depending on your...
Butterflies
Rick, Over the last week to ten days a grey heron has been visiting my back garden and pond here in Lychpit. Quite a feat seeing my garden is quite small at 45 feet...