Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous new year ahead!

May the road rise up to meet you and may the wind be always at your back (old Irish proverb)

My hope for 2022 is for a kinder more compassionate world – we’re all in this together.

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The swift season started with a later than average arrival of last year’s breeding birds; that said our existing  breeding pair really didn’t waste much time in laying eggs and they fledged young earlier than in 2019/20. There are many highlights each season, but perhaps the overall impression this year is of an uninterrupted performance […]

Swift diary- a brief summary of the 2021 swift season — Jonathan Pomroy

If the WHSP sites around SCP Nature Reserve are to be developed, only reed beds will offer any protection for the Lambrok.

The case for reed beds — Southwick Country Park Nature Reserve

Cute Pet

Cute Pet — The Mutts Blog

I was hoping to find a Monarch butterfly when I checked out some patches of milkweed last week at Jackson Miles Abbott Wetland Refuge, but ended up instead with some action shots of an Eastern Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa virginica). The bee was quite distracted while feeding, so I was able to get really close to […]

Bee and Milkweed — Mike Powell