Tag: Wildlife
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A short while ago, a sunny Saturday afternoon provided the perfect opportunity for a June venture to the Northumberland coast. Deciding against sites we visit…
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I’ll admit it, I have a strange fascinating with brownfield sites. Not just because some of these places – spoil heaps, forgotten corners and abandoned…
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When lockdown dawned in 2020 and naturalists across the country were forced to redirect their wildlife-watching close to home, I set myself a challenge: to…
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A Special Site of Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Durham Wildlife Trust nature reserve encompassing a disused magnesian limestone quarry, I have read about Bishop Middleham…
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The Essex Wildlife Trust’s Pound Wood, like so many ancient woods, is a special place and for different reasons. It is special for being somewhere…
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Few wildflowers capture the imagination quite like our orchids. They’re beautiful, of course, but also sufficiently scarce to provide a little jolt of excitement whenever…
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A couple of weeks ago, I walked part of the North Downs Way with a friend. Not a particularly unusual event, normally, but many of…
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Wildlife gardening has become somewhat of an obsession of late as we attempt to make our urban ‘yarden’ as appealing as possible to all forms…
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For a ages, I have read the blogs of others who have visited the Prudhoe Spetchells yet, shamefully, have never visited myself. Until now.
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We have been on somewhat of a quest this year to transform our little urban yard into a plot beneficial to wildlife. Planting a range…
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For me, one of the few positive aspects of our current lockdown has been the opportunity to look closer at the wildlife that persists close…
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In line with the government guidance, this week, time in nature has been squeezed and condensed. A few short forays to my local park and…
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My walk through the woods has become significantly more important for me since the announcement came that the country was going into lockdown. The song…
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It certainly feels like Spring has sprung in my little corner of Newcastle: garish daffodils of all shapes and sizes adorn the roadsides, House Sparrows…