An Uncommon Christmas Visitor to the Pond
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...
Category: NatureNotes
Nature Notes For 2019
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...
Nature Notes for January 2020
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! I do hope you...
Nature Notes For December
I may be aiming this final report of the year for December but its early November as I write and I’ve just been admiring the brilliant array of colours that adorn the countryside at...
Nature Notes For November
NATURE NOTES FOR NOVEMBER Spiders! The very word has just struck fear into more than one reader I’ll bet. Be warned this is the time when ‘The Old Basing spider’, more commonly known as...
Nature Notes For October
It has been a very quiet month with few reports or photos coming in, perhaps to be expected with people on holidays still and it is the time of year also when birds go...
Nature Notes For September
This months Nature Notes also incoporates and update on the Common; It would seem that the dust has well and truly settled regarding the furore about the Common use as I’ve heard no negative...
Garden Visitors
From Terry McAnish: I have never seen so many Blue Tits on my new feeders along with Great Tits, Long Tailed Tits, Coal Tits, Nuthatch, Robins and a male Greater Spotted Woodpecker. The feeders...
Nature Notes For July
NATURE NOTES FOR JULY There are few Swallows or House Martins to report so far, although a reasonable number of Swifts have now been seen and heard around the village. Good reports however of...
Nature Notes For June
NATURE NOTES FOR JUNE Unbelievable! I trolley off to California and Arizona on holiday for two weeks over Easter and swap UK Bank Holiday weather for theirs! You guys were (apparently) basking in 25C...