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 Gary Cowell | Mar 25, 2020 | Guest Blogs
Woodland training a great success By Gary Cowell (March 2020) Volunteer, Knighton Community Woodland Group We are pleased to announce that our Introduction to Woodland Management training course has been a great success, even though the last day had to be postponed...
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...
by Simon Cooter | Mar 2, 2020 | Guest Blogs
Notes from the Hill By Simon Cooter and the Natural England staff at Rigmoreoak (March 2020) One of the first signs of spring on the hill is when frogspawn appears in the pools dotted around the hill. Some of these small ponds are natural and have formed where there...
