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Beekeeper’s Notes: Honey Down From Last Year

Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon It isn’t the reason why most people keep bees but having the honey at the end of the season does help. And the amount…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No. 212

By Malcolm Fincham Some pleasurable summer sun and mostly dry conditions continued during the first weeks of July, in southern regions of the UK. My obsession with the great outdoors…

Riff Raff Diary – July 2020

Riverbank tales from the local St Catherine’s lengthsman and weir keeper By Robert Craig The last few weeks have been a busy time for me catching up with vegetation management.…

Richard’s Wey July 2020

The latest report from Richard Cant, the Stoke lengthman on the River Wey Navigations It’s been a few months since I last wrote my diary notes and since then so much has…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.211

By Malcolm Fincham Continuing my commitment and desires to seek and show the natural life that can be seen beyond our closed doors. I set out once again on my…

Escaped White Stork Seen in Shalford Park

An unusual sighting of a white stork has been photographed and filmed by reader Graham Dean in Shalford Park. Graham said: “I came across the bird while I was walking…

Beekeeper’s Notes: Bees Hit The Headlines With Singing Queens

Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon Bees were hitting the headlines in the past month with news that emerging queens were tooting and quacking to communicate with the worker bees.…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.210

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…

Into the Wild: Guildford Activist Sleeps With Badgers to Raise Funds for Homeless Youth

James 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.…

Established Nests of Merrow’s Swifts Saved by Guildford Conservation Group

A 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,…