Category: Conservation
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The Furnace Place Dormouse Project: connecting a community with the sleepy woodland (?) citizen
After a busy week of hedgerows, harvest mice and River’s Week planning, time to relax…with a Dormouse Box Check! 9am in the woods at Furnace Place Estate (FPE), I met with Margaret, Wendy, Alan Mary and Nigel from the Haslemere Natural History Society (HNHS) who have been checking the boxes with me for the last…
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Oakridge Moth Night (aka Tarn’s Sleep-over Shenanigans!)
I’m a novice at moth trapping and have been meaning to get to grips with moths for some time now. I couldn’t resist the opportunity to provide a bit of entertainment for my nephew Tarn when his best friend Ross came around for a sleepover on a sunny evening. Tarn’s house in Dorking is a…
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Encounters In The Wild: Hare by Jim Crumley. A review of sorts
“….what makes you think the Hare is done with night just because she kicked a badger in the ribs?” Ever since the days when I thought I might be a druid, the Hare, along with the bear and the wolf, has been an animal of power and magic in my imagination. This triptych is with…
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Striking Gold! | Surrey Wildlife Trust
A blog about the Surrey Harvest Mouse Project written for SWT Nature Notes “On Tuesday morning I allowed myself a sigh of relief as I held up the plastic bag in the chill and misty dawn in a wet meadow along the River Wey in Shalford.” Source: Striking Gold! | Surrey Wildlife Trust