Nature Diary No. 2 Early April 2020 by Peter and Sylvia Woodhead
Our Nature blog for early April 2020, with plants and wildlife seen in local gardens during lockdown.
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Get closer to the field and a little more behind the scenes by reading about the wild experiences, wildlife insights and recollections of staff and volunteers – writers from all over the organisation, from our Reserve Officers to our student placements.
We welcome guest bloggers! If you have something to write home about - whether you've got a trail cam in your garden, or you've been bird watching, or visited one of our nature reserves - if it's to do with Cumbria's wildlife and wild places then we'd love to hear from you!
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Nature Diary No. 1 March 2020 by Peter and Sylvia Woodhead
Our Nature blog for March 2020, with plants and wildlife seen on on local walks.
A summer visit to Gosling Sike
Throughout the summer Susan Cartwright-Smith, writer in residence at Gosling Sike has continued to visit the reserve. She has complied two beautiful poems reflecting upon those visits.
How to make your veg patch wildlife-friendly
Dyane Silvester challenges the view that crops and wildlife don't mix
Ringing the osprey chicks
Yan and Tan are now known as 410 and 411 (officially at least). Alasdair McKee, osprey enthusiast and volunteer at Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve, explains why ringing the osprey chicks is so…
Family dynamics in the osprey nest
As the osprey chicks grow and get more boisterous, Alasdair McKee, a volunteer at Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve, describes how Blue 35 sometimes needs to find some 'alone time'
Visiting Gosling Sike in May
Visiting Gosling Sike in May during the Covid restrictions - a poem by writer in residence Susan Cartwright-Smith.
Osprey chicks arrive at Foulshaw Moss
It was a long six weeks for Foulshaw osprey watchers. The wait is now over and Alasdair McKee describes the the chicks' arrival over the past week.
A Passion for Bees by Kevin Line
I have always found myself constantly transfixed in wonderment at the sight of bees escorting each other around the amazing structure of the flower heads of passion flower (Passiflora), busily…
Every Flower Counts
Laura Giles urges us to ditch the mower this month and get close up and personal with our lawn, to see how many flowers are growing there