Calderdale Moths , Butterflies and Dragonflies. This blog has been set up so local people can find out what is going on in the world of Moths, Butterflys and dragonflies in Calderdale. Saturday, 17 March 2018. NBN Gateway map service has been terminated. Please note that the NBN Gateway map service has been terminated as of 1 April 2017. View the NBN Atlas Map. Monday, 12 March 2018.

An account of natural things in and around Kingsdown, East Kent. Friday, 19 May 2017. , 43, and 78 of the same.

Wiltshire Horn Sheep on the Tor. While shepherds watched their Wiltshire flock,. Two Rangers from the Trust came down. The lookers came to count the sheep. With a glazed look in their eyes,. On Tor cider and mince pies! On Being a V.

Natural history adventures sailing the culinary seas. Sunday, 10 March 2013. Hile March continues to fling the occasional snow shower over the hills of Edinburgh, determined daffodils in green corners are quietly insisting that spring is. Watching the seasons has become something of more than idle interest, as my PhD research is all about phenology, or seasonal timing.

Love of the great outdoors and Photography. Lots of beautiful landscapes in both Colour and Black and White. Wednesday, 7 May 2014. Song of the Reed Warbler recorded at Ham Wall RSPB Reserve 03. Sunday, 4 May 2014. HAM WALL AND SHAPWICK HEATH NATURE RESERVES - BIRDS AND BUTTERFLIES GALORE. Well it has been a while since I last posted, but it is good to be back.

Aside from the honeybee, just about the only wild bee species most people in Britain are able to name are the large, furry bumblebees in the genus Bombus. Saturday, 11 July 2015. Now on show at Wildplace is a new addition to their lemur collection, a young paid of the Northern or White-Belted Black and White Ruffed Lemur, Varecia variagata subcincta.

Natural history in mid Somerset. Contact with Somerset Wildlife Trust. Visit butterfly sites while there is still the opportunity. Not a Large Blue for a change but a male Chalkhill Blue found on Hatch Hill above Compton Dundon on 9th August. Also Brown Argus and Silver-washed Fritillary up there. You are cordially invited to the SWT Annual Volunteer Conference September 2015. Updates on ecological networks and our reserves.

Discoveries from under floors and turf, stories of past lives, the ordinary and extraordinary. Dyrham the Biomass boiler and the thigh bone. Dyrham in South Gloucestershire is having a new boiler fitted and because there is so much potential archaeology in the area the NT is making sure that the pipeline trench from the boiler to the house is watched as it is being dug.

Sussex Off, But Slow Start. Sunday, August 16, 2015. The Brown Hairstreak season in Sussex is now fully underway, but we are still in the very early stages, as the butterfly calendar continues to run late. The main course is yet to come.

Conservation is the careful management of change. Books, pests and stairs. Our recent Conservation in Action demonstrations have been going great. Last week Assistant House Steward Lizzie attended an Emergency Salvage training course at Dudley Community Fire Station. The final practical was a simulated fire, with trainees required to react to the incident by p.