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Birdwatcher’s Diary No.283

By Malcolm Fincham Moving into July, the weather had become less settled in southern counties of the UK. Having escaped any rainfall for the most part of June, Atlantic westerlies…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.282

By Malcolm Fincham My arrival back to Guildford after my trip to the Orkney’s saw dry weather continuing to prevail. Locally, temperatures continued to rise into the mid to high…

Beekeeper’s Notes: The Honey Keeps On Coming and Mysteriously, I’m Wearing Hats

Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon It is the time of year when the kitchen is turned upside down for a couple of days as the spring honey is extracted.…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.281 A visit to the Orkney Islands

By Malcolm Fincham Once again, and with much gratitude to my birdwatching pals, I was on the road for another adventure. This time a once in a lifetime opportunity to…

Beekeeper’s Notes: Knowing Bees are Sentient Changes How We Must Treat Them

Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon People generally fear bees. There is a horror of being stung or, to use the current emotive word, swarmed by angry bees. If you…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.280

By Malcolm Fincham By the end of the second week of May a long awaited spell of settled weather had arrived. This was much thanks to a high pressure system…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.279

By Malcolm Fincham As we entered another month the bright yellow colours of April’s daffodils and lesser celandine began to dissolved within the caeruleus hue of bluebells about the Surrey…

Local Man Gets National Award for Protecting Badgers

A Puttenham man has been recognised for his “outstanding services to badgers”. Dave Williams of the West Surrey Badger Group was presented with the John Taylor Award for outstanding services…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.278

By Malcolm Fincham Temperatures remained below average during the later weeks of April as a Scandinavian high pressure continued to draw a cool east to north-easterly breeze across the country.…

Beekeeper’s Notes: ‘Yes, We Have a Stoughton and Worplesdon Swarm Collector!’

Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon There were swarms galore on the first warm day of the year a couple of weeks ago. We had three phone calls within about…