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Beekeeper’s Notes: A little Surprise Turns Up On The Allotment

Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon One of the great pleasures of beekeeping is the unexpected. A colony you are convinced has no queen suddenly starts to produce brood. A…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.236

By Malcolm Fincham “No signs of a heatwave this year!” Or so it seemed. Moving into the first week of July, cool, sometimes inclement weather continued in the southern regions of…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.235

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.235

By Malcolm Fincham June began on a good footing, sunny periods and dry weather prevailed at long last. Wood white butterflies seemed to be in reasonable numbers in Chiddingfold Forest,…

Returned Resident’s Initiative Gives a Restored Picture of Local Nature at Pewley

Dragon reader Jason Forde wrote in to say: “Would you like to do a piece on the new nature tableau at Pewley Down that I raised crowd-funded money for; and…

Beekeeper’s Notes: Weather, Feeding Bees And Identifying Bumble Bees

Beekeeper’s Notes: Weather, Feeding Bees And Identifying Bumble Bees

Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon I don’t know about you, but I am looking forward to the summer starting. Wimbledon is here so it won’t be during the tennis.…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.234

By Malcolm Fincham Breaking out from my pandemic shackles, I was now legally permitted to travel further for my observations. Despite rain early in May, in general it had been a…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.233

By Malcolm Fincham Turbulent weather continued into the second half of May. While the Met Office declared April to be one of the driest on record, it was already well-on-track…

Local Birth, Mother and Calf Doing Well

By Martin Giles Witnessing a birth is not an everyday occurrence for most of us and its wonder is still a sight to behold. It was not a sight my…

Beekeeper’s Notes: Starving Hive Is A Horrible Sight

By Hugh Coakley It’s a horrible thing to see a hive starving. Dead bees on the floor, others with their heads deep into the comb seeking the last of the…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.232

By Malcolm Fincham May has always been a busy one for me, ambling about the Surrey countryside in pursuit of what may be found to photograph. This one was no…