Tag: Living Landscape

  • The Furnace Place Dormouse Project: connecting a community with the sleepy woodland (?) citizen

    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…

  • Reconnecting

      I started this blog back in 2013 to explore my interest in connectivity and how connections, being connected and conversely the state of isolation, is expressed throughout the living world. The hedgerow that joins to woods; a river flowing through the landscape; a story that brings together two communities. I think a lot- too…

  • Where have all the Coot gone? Reflections on a WeBS core count at Burpham

    In October I signed up to monitor Burpham Court Farm, Guildford, for the BTO Wetland Birds Survey (WeBS). This Sunday gone was my 3rd Core Count (the first Sunday in the month) and the first on my own. As a relative newcomer to wetland birds- I am mammal ecologist- I enlisted the support first of…

  • Gatwick’s grasslands give up a gem: juvenile harvest mouse, 3g

    Sunday At 05:00 this morning I headed out onto almost deserted roads, the cars outnumbered by planes overhead on their final approaches: as I cruised up the A3 to junction 10 I waved farewell to those heading north into Heathrow and instead turned east onto the M25 with those Gatwick-bound. Our destination was the same,…

  • A Transylvanian Adventure: 3 weeks to go

    In exactly three weeks time I will have arrived in the Romanian province of Transylvania and will be getting to know the rest of the Operation Wallacea team with whom I’m to spend the next month-and-a-half. Its not a country I’ve visited before, or even know much about, except through Bram Stoker and Hammer Horror…