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…
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Guardians of our rivers
This year we joined the citizen science project, Guardians of our Rivers, which sets out to monitor the abundance of different groups of invertebrates that live in the riverbed. The presence of these organisms act as biological indicators of water quality, and can provide an early warning of pollution events or detrimental changes in our…
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…