Even in winter there’s lots of birds in the wood, making the most of the seed heads and rosehips – bluetits, robins and wrens are around most mornings even on the coldest days. Although when it came to the RSPB’s Big Garden Bird Watch at the end of January they all hid away from the…
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The heavy sky and brilliant yellow of the trees bring a bit of drama to autumn There’s so much food in the wood at this time of year – sloes, hazelnuts, crab-apples, rose-hips, elderberries. More for the birds and squirrels than for people, and generally the squirrels get all the hazelnuts before any people can…
It’s been a good summer for damselflies – we’ve seen emeralds, common blue and blue tailed. You can find them if you look closely at the bull rushes round the pond especially on a sunny evening. Much easier to see are the larger dragonflies – but we’ve only seen a couple of these. They darted…