From Anne Page
31 Jul 2015
Under our back door is a residential home: this summer on emerging for the morning swim I have found there: frogs, toads, lizards, snails. There have been two swarming flying ant infestations in the garden and house.
Wonderful sightings of the avocets nesting near the southerly sea wall. And one glorious swim with the Little Terns fishing about me. Last week, followed the hare running quite slowly along the landward verge from opposite the Alde House garden right up to Oxley Dairy’s entrance.
Anne Page
Grass snake
22 Jul 2015
We had a grass snake in our greenhouse yesterday. About 60-70 cms long.
Jason
Ichneumon
05 May 2015
Susanne Horncastle sent me this picture of a beautiful insect in her kitchen. It's an unusual species, an ichneumon wasp, beautiful to look at though it does have some nasty habits. The ichneumon injects its eggs into a host (usually a caterpillar) and the grubs then develop inside the unfortunate creature and eat it from within. Nature is like that sometimes.
Jeremy
News today
24 Apr 2015
New birds in today included lesser whitethroat and yellow wagtail. We also had another survey training session – on reptiles and amphibians – and we did discover one lizard!
jeremy
Visitor note
02 Apr 2015
We flushed a jack snipe and brown hare from the grassland next to the coastal lagoons to the south of the Martello tower. There were also signs of life in the lagoons themselves...caddisfly larvae in their cases were seen foraging within the flowing water.
Rosie Jackson via Jeremy
Jeremy
Alex message 1
10 Mar 2015
We have a Mahonia just outside our five bar gate, a common hardy garden shrub with hollylike leaves and sprays of scented yellow flowers, it is humming, literally!
I was attracted by the noise and found many honey bees and a couple of bumble bees. Certainly the Bumbles were there the other day because every time i go out i see them. So brave because it is still fairly chilly, but the flowers do put out a most wonderful smell and there isnt much else to attract at this time of year.
Spring is here!
Our bird feeder has at least fourteen gold finches, lots of starlings, sparrows, blackbirds, blue tits and there is a wren in the woodpile, a cock pheasant that visits regularly and a brace of partridges. Pigeons come, naturally, and a pair of collar doves.
More later.
Alex Williams
