October 2023 Ramsbury Nature Notes by Peter Marren
Autumn is with us again, although the hot weather at the start of September made it feel more like an Indian Summer. With all the rain...
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Chilton Foliat Wildlife Team Member
Sep 24, 2023
October 2023 Ramsbury Bird Notes by Paul Swan
Meteorological summer has now ended, and the morning autumn mists are already starting. The house martins and swallows are busy fueling...
Chilton Foliat Wildlife Team Member
Sep 24, 2023
September 2023 Ramsbury Nature Notes by Peter Marren
It has been a funny old year weatherwise: a wet spring followed by a wet July and an even wetter early August, after a dry interlude in...
Chilton Foliat Wildlife Team Member
Sep 24, 2023
September 2023 Ramsbury Bird Notes by Paul Swan
As I wrote the September notes last year the temperature outside was 34 degrees – today it is 19 degrees! However, the birds seem to be...
Chilton Foliat Wildlife Team Member
Aug 31, 2023
HOW TO HELP WILDLIFE IN YOUR GARDEN - SEPTEMBER
As the summer comes to an end, there are lots of things you can do to help wildlife survive in the winter. Provide Shelter Providing...
Chilton Foliat Wildlife Team Member
Aug 16, 2023
Photography Techniques - some general pointers..with a nod to wildlife photography by Philip Tull
Contents: The subject Basic techniques - composition/leading lines/1/3rds / frames etc.. Backgrounds Light Equipment These notes are not...
Chilton Foliat Wildlife Team Member
Jul 29, 2023
HOW TO HELP WILDLIFE IN YOUR GARDEN - AUGUST
As Autumn approaches, there are still plenty of things you can do in your garden to help wildlife. Even the smallest things can make a...
Chilton Foliat Wildlife Team Member
Jul 28, 2023
August 2023 Ramsbury Nature Notes by Peter Marren
The wild flowers this summer have been memorably colourful. The long field at Harbrook, open to walkers for most of July, was an...
Chilton Foliat Wildlife Team Member
Jul 28, 2023
August 2023 Ramsbury Bird Notes by Paul Swan
As I write, many birds are busy feeding their second brood of the year, In the garden our resident wren is out of the nest box every few...
Chilton Foliat Wildlife Team Member
Jul 28, 2023
July 2023 Ramsbury Nature Notes by Peter Marren
One of the pleasures of midsummer is that you find something new almost every time you go for a walk. On our Ramsbury Wildlife Group...
Chilton Foliat Wildlife Team Member
Jul 28, 2023
July 2023 Ramsbury Bird Notes by Paul Swan
The last month has been a bumper one for fledglings. Almost all the eggs of garden birds have hatched, and the young have started to be...
Chilton Foliat Wildlife Team Member
Jun 25, 2023
HOW TO HELP WILDLIFE IN YOUR GARDEN - JULY
Each month we’ll be providing practical tips and ideas to encourage and protect wildlife in your garden. In July, your garden will be...
Chilton Foliat Wildlife Team Member
May 31, 2023
June 2023 Ramsbury Bird Notes by Paul Swan
After the arrival of the first swallows and house martins by mid-April, the swifts arrived just before the end of that month and started...
Chilton Foliat Wildlife Team Member
May 31, 2023
June 2023 Ramsbury Nature Notes by Peter Marren
What a strange spring this has been: mostly wet, often cold. By mid-May the tallest poplars, some of the still-living ash, and even our...
Chilton Foliat Wildlife Team Member
May 3, 2023
The Wildlife Group starts tree-planting
The tree planting project organised by Chilton Foliat Parish Council moved a step further when Councillors Ann McMath and Paul Outridge...
Chilton Foliat Wildlife Team Member
May 2, 2023
May 2023 Ramsbury Nature Notes by Peter Marren
In March we had a hunt for Ramsbury’s wild daffodils. Most of the daffs you see on verges and other grassy places are cultivars, the...
Chilton Foliat Wildlife Team Member
May 2, 2023
May 2023 Ramsbury Bird Notes by Paul Swan
As Peter has mentioned, the first swallow was seen on April 7th, and a very tired and thin bird it was. A few days later the first house...
Chilton Foliat Wildlife Team Member
May 2, 2023
'From Farm to Fork' talk in the Village Hall
We held the second meeting of the Chilton Wildlife Group in the Village Hall on 2nd March, well attended by many members of the local...
Chilton Foliat Wildlife Team Member
Apr 4, 2023
April 2023 Ramsbury Bird Notes by Paul Swan
The group of around 500 golden plovers are still in residence on Spring Hill but will be returning to the moors of Yorkshire and Scotland...
Chilton Foliat Wildlife Team Member
Apr 4, 2023
April 2023 Ramsbury Nature Notes by Peter Marren
We associate fungi with autumn, but early spring has some too, especially jelly-fungi, named from their jelly-like texture, and...
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