PLEASE READ THIS FIRST – if you share any Southern migrant hawker sightings from Wat Tyler CP please link/post the text in bold on this link Can everyone please keep to the paths and boardwalks and avoid trampling any surrounding pond vegetation, as the park is an SSSI. If similar trampling/damage is caused in this year as was…
Please the read introduction text on this post first HERE (which also has some other useful info) Weather was patchy sun and cloud with a strong wind, turning completely cloudy before 2.30pm when I saw it and it apparently is disappeared not too long after . I saw 1 male on 2 brief visits on…
PLEASE READ THIS FIRST – if you share any Southern migrant hawker sightings from Wat Tyler CP please link/post the bold text below Please forgive the possibly lecturing tone to the below, it is hard to write something, like this without it coming out that way! 🙂 In 2013 after sighting this dragonfly species in…
My letter to my MP regarding the proposed amendments to the fox hunting act: Dear Stephen Metcalfe, As you are no doubt aware on Wednesday there will be a vote for amending the Hunting Act. These amendments seem to be purposely aimed and undermining the act to make it unenforceable, effectively legalising this outdated and…
A few weeks ago I was showing some fellow great crested newt eDNA surveyors around Wat Tyler CP when we spotted a grass snake in one of the ponds. I went in for a closer shot and it dived under water and into some blanket weed for a short while. It came up backwards, which…