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Woodland Highlights: May
Thankfully some warmth has returned to our shores. This is the last month of spring and many trees are flushed with their new leaves. Keen photographers may want to take this opportunity to capture them while they are still fresh and vivid … Continue reading
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Tagged adder, ash, bats, blackberry, blackthorn, blossom, bluebells, brood, bugle, chalara dieback, chequered skipper, cockchafer, common figwort, common spotted orchid, damselflies, dragonflies, dryad's saddle, duke of burgundy, elder, foxglove, frog, grass snake, green hairstreak, green-veined white, hawthorn, hazel dormouse, highlights, horse chestnut, leaf burst, Lords and ladies, mating, may, Nature's Calendar, newt, nightingale, nightjar, oak, photo competition, ramsons, rhododendron, robin, rowan, seasonal, slow worm, speckled wood, spindle, spotted flycatcher, spring, stag beetle, stinkhorn, sulphur tufts, tadpole, toad, visitwoods, what to see, Woodland, yellow pimpernel
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Woodland Highlights: March
Smile as the days get longer, and hopefully warmer. The 20th of March brings the spring equinox, when the Earth is tilted neither away from nor toward the sun. Then at the end of the month the clocks return us to British Summer … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Conservation, Woodland Highlights
Tagged ash, bat, blackthorn, blossom, blue tit, bluebell, brimstone, british summer time, chiff chaff, citizen science, comma, cuckooflower, devil's matchstick, dog violet, dogs mercury, elder, equinox, frog, hare, hawthorn, highlights, march, March brown mayfly, morel, Nature's Calendar, oc lip, peacock, ramsons, reptiles, scarlet elf cup, small tortoiseshell, spawn, star moss, sulphur turft, tadpole, toad, UK, visitwoods, what to see, wild cherry, wood spurge, woon anemone, wooodland
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Woodland Highlights: October
Trees/shrubs… Acorns and hazelnuts are ripening, offering an energy packed food source for dormice. Jays and squirrels will bury them for winter storage, but they often forget the location of their secret stashes and young trees shoot up next spring. … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Conservation, Woodland Highlights
Tagged acorn, adder, autumn, birch, brumation, Dormice, dormouse, fairy tale, fieldfare, flowering, fly agaric, frog, gorse, grass snake, hazelnut, hibernation, ivy, jay, myth, October, pine, redwing, spindle, teasel, thrush, toad, tree, wood, Woodland, yew
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Woodland Highlights: June
Wow the year is flying by and summer is upon us. The woodland canopy is closing over and many of spring’s woodland flowers have gone to seed. But summer brings its own delights; some looking for shadier niches, those that thrive … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Conservation, Woodland Highlights
Tagged bat, birds, bittersweet, damselfly, dog rose, Dormice, enchanters, fledglings, flowering plants, frog, froglet, hazel dormice, hedgehog, highlight, hoglet, honeysuckle, june, maternity roost, nightshade, nipplewort, nymph, snowberry, toad, toadlet, wood vetch, Woodland, woody nightshade
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Woodland Highlights: March
Along with temperatures, wildlife activities really start hotting up in March. The mind turns to wandering through trees alive with their fresh leafy flush, butterflies alighting on delicate petals, birds crooning to their lovers and deep earthy scents intoxicating the … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Woodland Highlights
Tagged blackthorn, British Trust for Ornithology, brumation, BTO, bumblebee, celandine, chiff chaff, comma, cuckoo, hibernation, ivy, mad march hare, march, Mediterranean, morel, toad, Woodland
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