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Worcestershire Wildlife Trust Volunteers: February 2014
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Worcestershire Wildlife Trust Volunteers. Friday, 21 February 2014. Winter at Hill Court Farm. The Hill Court Farm reserve is a wetland reserve, but even here I don't think we've ever seen it quite as wet! This was the view last week, showing just how flooded some of the fields have become -. As for our intrepid volunteers, we have spent the winter clearing, coppicing and laying a long length of hedgerow which, as we've slashed, chopped and sawn away, has seemed an almost destructive task at times. If yo...
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Worcestershire Wildlife Trust Volunteers: November 2013
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Worcestershire Wildlife Trust Volunteers. Wednesday, 27 November 2013. Hedge laying at Hill Court Farm. Last month members of the Hill Court Farm volunteer work party got stuck into the task of clearing / laying / coppicing a long length of hedgerow. The weather was kind to us and in our beautiful location, surrounded by bird song and watched (rather suspiciously! By rabbits we had a great day. Massive thanks to all those who helped! Clearing the hedge ready for laying. Sara, Hill Court Farm warden.
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Worcestershire Wildlife Trust Volunteers: October 2013
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Worcestershire Wildlife Trust Volunteers. Tuesday, 22 October 2013. Creating ponds at Hill Court Farm. When our family moved out of town and into the countryside 10 years ago I didn't fully appreciate how much I would love living close to Worcestershire Wildlife Trust's Hill Court Farm and The. Reserve. It has enhanced my enjoyment of countryside living immensely to be able to watch the wildlife attracted to the Reserve and observe some of it spilling over into. Fields and even our own garden. Now eighte...
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Worcestershire Wildlife Trust Volunteers: December 2013
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Worcestershire Wildlife Trust Volunteers. Monday, 16 December 2013. The natural history of Christmas, by Michael Leach. Michael, a zoologist, wildlife photographer and author, recently made a short TV film on the natural history of Christmas. His researches led to his 27th and latest book and this illustrated talk, in which he examined some of our long-held beliefs about the origins of our Christmas customs. Robin © Jason C. After the winter solstice the lengthening of the days and the return of the sun ...
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Wessex Wanderings: 31 May 2015
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Rambles around the chalk downs of Southern England. Photographs of flowers, buildings, landscape, fungi and anything else that takes my eye on walks. Thursday, 4 June 2015. Peasemore, Leckhampstead, Chaddleworth and Brightwalton. Back in March I researched. I started off at Peasemore church. And walked over the fields heading west. Lots of interesting arable weeds around and a good view back to the church. Again, I described it in my 2013 walk. Also in the churchyard I happened upon a family of long-tail...
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Wessex Wanderings: 21 December 2014
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Rambles around the chalk downs of Southern England. Photographs of flowers, buildings, landscape, fungi and anything else that takes my eye on walks. Thursday, 25 December 2014. Blewbury Downs on Christmas Day. What better way to spend Christmas Day than up in the sunshine on the downs? I started at the old village of Blewbury. It is on the spring line and has the feel of an Anglo-Saxon village; so old that even the walls are thatched! This is a cob wall. Leaving the village I took a path to the south to...
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Wessex Wanderings: 22 March 2015
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Rambles around the chalk downs of Southern England. Photographs of flowers, buildings, landscape, fungi and anything else that takes my eye on walks. Wednesday, 25 March 2015. Mapledurham and Goring Heath. Walks following the chalk downlands of south Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire on or near the Chiltern Way north of the Thames. Checkendon and Stoke Row. Stoke Row; Nettlebed and Bix. Cookley Green; Watlington; Stonor and Warburg. Rotherfield Peppard and Henley. Woodcote and Exlade Street. On a good day ...
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Wessex Wanderings: 26 April 2015
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Rambles around the chalk downs of Southern England. Photographs of flowers, buildings, landscape, fungi and anything else that takes my eye on walks. Thursday, 30 April 2015. Walks following the chalk downlands of south Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire on or near the Chiltern Way north of the Thames. Checkendon and Stoke Row. Stoke Row; Nettlebed and Bix. Cookley Green; Watlington; Stonor and Warburg. Rotherfield Peppard and Henley. Woodcote and Exlade Street. Cookley Green and Russells Water. On the path...
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Wessex Wanderings: Lids and Oven Bottoms
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Rambles around the chalk downs of Southern England. Photographs of flowers, buildings, landscape, fungi and anything else that takes my eye on walks. Friday, 7 August 2015. Lids and Oven Bottoms. Has started, I explored the reserves at Lids Bottom and Oven Bottom. I had seen a sign for Lids Bottom on my Blewbury Christmas Day walk. Last year. I thought it looked interesting enough to visit in the summer. Walking down to it gives fine views over Blewbury village. I then walked back and down to Oven Bottom...
