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amendments seem to be purposely aimed and undermining the act to make it unenforceable, effectively legalising this outdated and…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…
Back in March I was up in the Cairngorms, which is famous for its Caledonian Forest habitat with pine martens, wildcats and capercaillie. The ponds there also hold wildlife unique to this habitat in Britain, including the Northern damselfly, Coenagrion hastulatum. Of course in March it is too cold for the adult to be on…
