Small Birds

Small Birds

Small Birds By Rob Rowe (February 2020) Small birds flock through the alder searching for seeds and insects. Siskins their tiny crossed tails silhouetted against the grey sky, long-tailed tits acrobatting their way through the branches. A tree creeper curling...
Notes from the Hill (Feb 2020)

Notes from the Hill (Feb 2020)

Notes from the Hill By Simon Cooter and the Natural England staff at Rigmoreoak (February 2020) There have been some exciting sightings in recent months of what are very likely to be pine martens in the Stiperstones area. These tree loving mammals, which are related...
Notes from the Hill (Jan 2020)

Notes from the Hill (Jan 2020)

Notes from the Hill By Simon Cooter and the Natural England staff at Rigmoreoak (January 2020) In the last ‘Notes from the Hill’ I focused on the Environmental and Climate Emergency that the world is facing. There is unequivocal evidence that the world is rapidly...
Notes from the Hill (Nov 2019)

Notes from the Hill (Nov 2019)

Notes from the Hill By Simon Cooter and the Natural England staff at Rigmoreoak (November 2019) So it would seem that we have finally realised that the world is experiencing unprecedented loss of wildlife and that we are in an official Environmental and Climate...
Regenerative Farming – Guest Blog (Part 2)

Regenerative Farming – Guest Blog (Part 2)

Regenerative Farming – Guest Blog (Part 2) Farming: The answer to climate change *and* the 6th Mass Extinction? Published in the Clun Chronicle. Written by Manda Scott. Can farming genuinely form a central structure in our answer to climate change and the...