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Along The Wey & Arun Canal, April 2016

A regular update from the Wey & Arun Canal Trust, a charity restoring the waterway which once ran 23 miles from Shalford to Pallingham in West Sussex. The trust has…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.105

By Malcolm Fincham By the middle of March the weather started to settle down. Although conditions were not always at there best for photography, it was a welcomed change to have entered…

Beekeeper’s Notes April 2016: No Pensions For Bees

Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon and talks about the new beekeeeping season and the bees working until they drop in his monthly series. My bees, thank goodness, look to…

Richard’s Wey March 2016

The latest report from Richard Cant, the Stoke lengthman on the River Wey Navigations I was lucky enough to be off work enjoying my new born daughter for the first half of…

An Unfortunate Injury Offers A Rare Close Up View Of A Lesser Known Bird

By Malcolm Fincham A photo submitted by Guildford Dragon readers Colin and Joan Mills has prompted me to write about one of our less mentioned birds, the siskin. Although frequently…

Along The Wey & Arun Canal Trust, March 2016

Introducing a regular update from the Wey & Arun Canal Trust, which is restoring a waterway which once ran 23 miles from Shalford to Pallingham in West Sussex. The trust…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.104

By Malcolm Fincham Over the last few days of February I was put under a temporary birdwatching curfew. Booked up to visit my daughter now living in York, my wife…

Riff Raff Diary – March 2016

Riverbank tales from the local St Catherine’s lengthsman and weirkeeper by Robert Craig February started well with a really productive day working with the Wey Navigation Conservation Volunteers. We spent the…

Beekeeper’s Notes March 2016 – Starving Bees Turn Cannibal

 Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon. In this month’s notes, he talks about how honeybees will suck the fluids from their own brood to save the colony from starvation. There…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.103

By Malcolm Fincham I offer much sympathy and gratitude to The Guildford Dragon NEWS editorial team, especially David Rose, who has the unenviable task and does such a great job going through…