Nature Notes
by Andy Johnson
Nature Notes – September 2022
We recently had a hummingbird hawk-moth feeding on flowers in our garden. These day time feeding moths migrate from around the Mediterranean to Britain and Northern Europe.
Nature Notes – August 2022
Graham Bourne recently complained that he had ‘mole problems’ in his lawn. Sure enough there were the tell tale mole hills.
Nature Notes – July 2022
The dawn and evening chorus has come to an end this mid-summer week. It tends to be dominated by blackbirds.
Nature Notes – June 2022
For the past month I have been watching a queen wasp building its nest in my wooden garden shed.
Nature Notes – May 2022
Similar to last year, April’s weather has been dominated by a cool northerly airstream, but without the devastating frosts. Consequently cherry and magnolia blossom, daffodils and tulips have been good and long lasting.
Nature Notes – April 2022
The warm weather has brought out cherry blossom and spring flowers, and thrushes and blackbirds are in full song especially at dusk.
Nature Notes – March 2022
Roe deer are regularly seen around here. Last week I spotted a hind with two three-quarter grown young break out of Carriage Road Plantation and run across a field of rape into a copse.
Nature Notes – February 2022
Walking along Fleetham Lane on New Year’s Day I was surprised to see four hares cavorting around showing signs of mating.
Elgie Update
In January 2020 we included an item about a blue tit at Glebe Cottage.
Nature Notes – January 2022
The weather in 2021 was extraordinary. After a cold, wet winter, April and May were the coldest for thirty years and unusually dry.