HOW TO HELP WILDLIFE IN YOUR GARDEN - NOVEMBER
Now that the temperature is really starting to drop, there are lots of things we can do to help wildlife to overwinter until Spring. ...
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October 2024 Ramsbury Nature Notes by Peter Marren
The series of warm, dry Septembers we have enjoyed lately ended this year with thunderous deluges lasting for days. If autumn has come...
Chilton Foliat Wildlife Team Member
2 days ago
October 2024 Ramsbury Bird Notes by Paul Swan
Meteorological summer has now ended, and the morning autumn mists are already starting. The departure of the swallows and house martins...
HOW TO HELP WILDLIFE IN YOUR GARDEN IN OCTOBER
Winter is now truly upon us and there are lots of things that will make a difference to the wildlife in your garden. Helping frogs in the...
September 2024 Ramsbury Nature Notes by Peter Marren
Everyone knows the white foam of cow parsley or ‘keck’ that borders the lanes in May. But there are many similar flowers which are less...
September 2024 Ramsbury Bird Notes by Paul Swan
The swifts have already left, a little earlier than usual. Many of us learned more about these amazing birds at Ailsa Claiborne’s swift...
August 2024 Ramsbury Nature Notes by Peter Marren
All the rain this spring and summer has had at least two noticeable outcomes. One is the sheer luxuriance of the vegetation. River weeds,...
August 2024 Ramsbury Bird Notes by Paul Swan
I am grateful to Peter and Margaret for most of the sightings this month, and some of them have been very special. On the track to...
HOW TO HELP WILDLIFE IN YOUR GARDEN IN AUGUST
In late summer there are still plenty of things you can do in your garden to help wildlife. Even the smallest things can make a big...
HOW TO HELP WILDLIFE IN YOUR GARDEN IN JULY
In July there is an abundance of wildlife in our gardens and there’s plenty you can do to help it thrive! Provide food and water for...
July 2024 Ramsbury Nature Notes by Peter Marren
As midsummer approaches, and nature’s year nears its climax, there is no shortage of things to report. In fact, it’s hard to know where...
July 2024 Ramsbury Bird Notes by Paul Swan
The last month has been a bumper one for sightings. We have either seen, or had reported, spotted flycatchers at The Triangle, corn...
June 2024 Ramsbury Nature Notes by Peter Marren
The judges of the Best Kept Village competition deduct marks for litter and weeds. Especially street weeds, the ones that pop up in...
June 2024 Ramsbury Bird Notes by Peter Marren
I am doing bird notes this time as Paul is on holiday. April is the time of year when one records the first appearances of our summer...
HOW TO HELP WILDLIFE IN YOUR GARDEN IN JUNE
Summer is here at last! June is when you can make the most of your garden and enjoy the long summer evenings. There’s also plenty to do...
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May 2024 Ramsbury Nature Notes by Peter Marren
It has been a long wait for the first really warm days of spring. Perhaps that was why there were so few flying insects about until the...
May 2024 Ramsbury Bird Notes by Paul Swan
As we head into May, many of our summer visitors have already arrived. The swallows turned up in the village in the first week of April,...
HOW TO HELP WILDLIFE IN YOUR GARDEN IN MAY
May is one of the loveliest months in the year as the countryside starts looks its best after the winter. It’s a time when we really...
April 2024 Ramsbury Nature Notes by Peter Marren
The Muntjac is a small, stocky deer with a characteristically hunched appearance, with its hind-quarters higher than its shoulders. Its...
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