The common blue damselfly
On a walk to a lake with a young person who was using a camera for the first time, excitedly crouching, zooming, snapping away. He photographed cow parsley, a passing puppy, daisies, obliging moorhens, oblivious ducks, bracket fungi, all sorts of colourful delights. On approaching the water we could see roaming dragonflies, too far away […]
Summer Treasures
When the humans are away the animals can relax! Here are some pictures and videos from our wildlife cameras from the summer break.
All About the Plants
Last Saturday saw our May Earthworks and this time we were looking at plant life in the woods. Why look at plant life? Well, we need to create base line surveys of the species that we have in the woodlands so that we can monitor what happens over time. What changes, what plants die back, […]
Planting trees at Earthworks
Planting Trees is something that you do for your great great grandchildren. It won’t be within your lifetime you see that tree reach maturity. In the right conditions and given time that tree could become colossal and why wouldn’t you gift that to future generations? Our woodland at Treacle Valley has a lot of ash trees and sadly these trees need to be felled. We had a handful of them taken […]