The latest report from Richard Cant, the Stoke lengthman on the River Wey Navigations The sunny spells and showers of September meant that the vegetation had been growing vigorously, with the locksides…
October 13, 2017 / No Comment / Read MoreBy Malcolm Fincham The second half of my September diary included a couple of trips to Farlington Marshes near Portsmouth. These visits allowed me comparisons of ‘latest’ sightings there, as…
October 8, 2017 / 1 Comment / Read MoreHugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon. He talks about how the British native black bee may be making a comeback within these shores. It is interesting to see how an…
October 1, 2017 / 1 Comment / Read MoreBy Malcolm Fincham Autumn had come early to Surrey, at least, that’s how it was feeling to me. A steady flow of birds were now passing through on migration. From Wood…
September 24, 2017 / 3 Comments / Read MoreA regular update from the Wey & Arun Canal Trust (WACT), which is restoring a waterway which once ran 23 miles from Shalford to Pallingham in West Sussex. The Trust…
September 12, 2017 / No Comment / Read MoreBy Malcolm Fincham Although having accepted that I had run out of new species of butterflies to view in the Surrey area this year, a visit to Denbies Hillside, near…
September 10, 2017 / 2 Comments / Read MoreRiverbank tales from the local St Catherine’s lengthsman and weirkeeper by Robert Craig Heading into September my time will be spent on strimming the towpath vegetation, bank repairs and some…
September 10, 2017 / No Comment / Read MoreHugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon. He talks about why wasps are so intrusive in late summer and why the bees get defensive. And the jobs that need doing ……..…
September 1, 2017 / No Comment / Read MoreBy Malcolm Fincham Forty-five not out! Playing a ”straight bat”, yet not expecting to add any more to the total of my year list of butterflies. On August 8 at…
August 27, 2017 / No Comment / Read MoreBy Malcolm Fincham As July came to a close, blackbirds fell silent of their fluty song for another year. I continued my pledge to achieve my highest number of species…
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