by Rebecca Porter | Jan 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Our resolution for new year is to learn more about lichens. We seem to support quite a spectacular array of them on our trees. There are three main types that are structurally quite different: foliose or leafy lichens, fruticose or bushy lichens and crustose or crusty...
by Rebecca Porter | Jan 24, 2025 | Wildlife Reports
Wild Wednesdays may have stopped for the winter but nature hasn’t. Some of our log piles are coming into their own now they have been lying for several years and are supporting an array different types of fungi: tiny bonnet mushrooms, large and small bracket fungi and...
by Rebecca Porter | May 16, 2024 | Wildlife Reports
What a difference a week makes! The red-eyed damselflies have exploded onto the scene and are the most prevalent damselfly out at the moment. They are already down to business, vying for position on the floating vegetation so look out for them on the...
by Rebecca Porter | May 1, 2024 | Wildlife Reports
The wildflowers on the bend of the river Frome came with a soundtrack of birdsong that took some dissecting: wren, song thrush, reed warbler, Cetti’s warbler with the odd honk of a goose. Unlike the reed warbler, our Cetti’s warblers don’t migrate to warmer...
by Rebecca Porter | Apr 23, 2024 | Wildlife Reports
The common reed, our tallest native grass, is beginning to flower as the reed warblers begin to return from Africa where they over winter. Two birds arrived early and had an oratory duel in the reeds along north bank. Only one bird is now singing at that spot so...