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Hedgerows and flooding: rejuvinating our broken and ailing hedgerows network is part of the solution
As I write this the devastating effects of flooding on individuals and communities, particularly in the south of Britain, can be witnessed daily through the media. In Somerset, and here in my own county of Surrey at Staines, Chertsey and Egham, homes have been damaged and people evacuated. 900 people have been rescued across the…
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Europe’s Field Boundaries: a collossal new work (REVISED)
This post first appeared on Feb 16 with details of how to order the work from NHBS at £399. I was promptly contacted by Georg Muller the author to tell me that neither he nor his publisher had supplied NHBS and certainly not at this price. If you would like to purchase the book please contact…
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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,…
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Buna Ziua! Update from Tranyslvania #2 @opwall
In Viscri at the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, the sky is exploding. The sky was darkening as we sat in the cobblestone courtyard of No 22 eating our tasty lunch of chicken soup followed by apricot cake, surrounded by prowling cats, a scruffy black and white hound, and a coterie of chickens and turkeys.…
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Evidence of Otter recovery in South East boosted by @SurreyWT and @UniOfSurrey trap-camera pictures
A great moment this week when we discovered that one of our “OtterCams” had finally captured a picture of an otter on the Surrey side of the border with Hampshire. Whilst the otter recovery across the UK- a welcome antidote to the gloom presented by the recent State of Nature report- has seen all counties…
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James T Jones 