The recent warm & sunny Spring weather has really brought the insects out. On a walk last Wednesday I saw Brimstones & a Small Tortoishell…
Sorry … bad pun intended! But the good news is that a hare was seen on the February workparty today – only fleetingly because it…
Hartslock is very beautiful in high summer and it is well worth visiting if you are in the area. The season is finishing a little…
Spent a lovely afternoon pottering around Hartslock today with a friend … the showers held off for for most of the time and, with all…
No sooner have we seen the last of the Dingy skippers bite the dust then the next species are on the wing … what a…
Today I went up to the site to help Gerry with some scrub-cutting … he does the actual cutting while I stand guard and make…
Found this really lovely giant aphid* today … it’s about 1cm long. There were also a few Ephemera vulgata & lineata plus all of the…
Birds: Red Kite, Buzzard, Kestrel & Hobby Butterflies: Dingy Skipper, Grizzled Skipper, Green Hairstreak, Speckled Wood, Small Heath & Common Blue
Had a tiring but very enjoyable day on the reserve yesterday. I was very keen to see what it looked like because we had had…
The recent winds haven’t abated yet so everything is blowing about up on the reserve, but in general the orchids and invertebrates are doing as…