By Malcolm Fincham For a good few years, I had toyed with the idea to visit Hutchinson’s Bank Nature Reserve, for an opportunity to see Glanville fritillary butterflies for the…
June 22, 2020 / 4 Comments / Read MoreJames Miller, an environmental campaigner and nature documentary film-maker, spent a night with a badger sett, in a wood near Guildford to raise money for leading youth homeless charity Centrepoint.…
June 18, 2020 / No Comment / Read MoreA dispute over scaffolding blocking swifts migrating to their customary nests in a shared property in Merrow has been resolved to allow them clear entry. Sarah Davis and John Bannister,…
June 17, 2020 / No Comment / Read MoreBy Malcolm Fincham By the middle of May government regulations in regard to coronavirus had eased a little, at least for the time being. Restrictive rules had been relaxed enough…
June 10, 2020 / 4 Comments / Read MoreHugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon It’s been a funny year so far. Sunshine well above average with April in the running for the sunniest since Met Office records began…
June 1, 2020 / 1 Comment / Read MoreBy Martin Giles Passers-by in Shalford are noticing a new erection by the village green and questioning its purpose. It is a “Swift Tower” designed to attract summer visiting swifts…
May 30, 2020 / No Comment / Read MoreRising from the rubble of a derelict sports ground, Britain’s smallest butterfly, the small blue, is making a comeback at Surrey Wildlife Trust’s newest nature reserve, Priest Hill near Epsom,…
May 28, 2020 / No Comment / Read Moreby Malcolm Fincham Moving into May, the blue skies and sunshine continued. Although still restricted in my ventures I continued to remain up to date as best I could with…
May 23, 2020 / 1 Comment / Read Moreby Martin Giles When I heard the buzzing I thought another bumblebee had wandered in through the window and I got ready to usher it back outside. Then, when I…
May 23, 2020 / 2 Comments / Read MoreStag Hill is believed to be so named because it was on the southern end of Forest of Windsor, reserved in medieval times for royal hunting parties. But since Guildford…
May 16, 2020 / 1 Comment / Read More
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