by Rob Rowe | Apr 8, 2020 | Guest Blogs
7 fungi By Rob Rowe (April 2020) Many of these bracket fungi are tough perennials. They will survive for several years and grow a new ring each year. Others are still quite tough and leathery but only last for one season. Some fungi are very specific to which tree...
by Rob Rowe | Mar 30, 2020 | Guest Blogs
Startled! By Rob Rowe (March 2020) I am startled by a pair of mallards rising from the river directly below me, as I flush them into panicked flight. Lifting me too, from inward thought, to where I stand below the silent rookery. Why their absence? A solitary raven...
by Rob Rowe | Mar 26, 2020 | Guest Blogs
Crinoid By Rob Rowe (March 2020) Sitting on the bare soil under the oak tree are two similar objects. Superficially similar in size and shape. Both oval and about three inches long. One an owl pellet; brown like bran, rain-washed to reveal the protruding mass of tiny...
by Rob Rowe | Mar 19, 2020 | Guest Blogs
Sightings By Rob Rowe (March 2020) This tiny seedling only 8mm tall is the fruit of a lot of hard labour last year! One of many thousand, it is a yellow rattle seedling a few days old, which has germinated from ‘green hay’, collected from nearby...
by Rob Rowe | Mar 7, 2020 | Guest Blogs
Seen Before Heard By Rob Rowe (March 2020) Suddenly my head lifts, ears straining. It is a grey morning but that sound is liquid gold-laced across the sky. The first curlew. Heard before seen. For a moment there is a slight doubt and then there it is again, clear...
