Archive of: March, 2014

• Wild watch: song thrush

  31 March 2014

• Questionable claims around fracking

  27 March 2014

  By Battenbrook [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia CommonsAuthor Tony WhitbreadChief ExecutiveSussex is in the front-line in the exploitation of unconventional gas supplies, such as 'fracking'. We have therefore had to

• Bird Song: Dunnock

  26 March 2014

  Author Neil FletcherInterpretation Officer dunnock / Neil FletcherDunnocks are charming little birds, skulking about in the dark places beneath bushes, rarely more than two metres above the ground. But in the spring they're a bit

• Bird Song: Wren

  25 March 2014

  Author Neil FletcherInterpretation Officer wren / Neil FletcherFor their diminutive size, wrens are incredibly loud. Even if you don't take their size into account, they are incredibly loud. It's a bit of a challenge to

• Bird Song: Robin

  24 March 2014

  Author Neil FletcherInterpretation Officer robin / Neil FletcherRobins start singing as early as November, the males setting up territories and defending them vigorously. They get themselves really fired up over the colour of their opponents

• Dabchick magnet

  23 March 2014

  little grebe / Steve LillywhiteAuthor Graeme LyonsEcologistA couple of days ago at work, Bryan rushed into the office and said he had seen a pair of little grebes on

• Take the Sussex Downs Wildlife Challenge

  21 March 2014

  Thank you for helping us raise 50% of our Sussex Downs Appeal targetAuthor Richard CobdenDigital Media OfficerTo celebrate reaching the half-way point in our

• Wheatear: The arrival of the white-arsed vanguard of summer

  20 March 2014

• 10.03.14 Sweeping, sieving and beating at St John's Sub Castro.

  19 March 2014

  Sussex WildlifeTrust ecologist Graeme Lyons led a group around St John's Sub Castro churchyard showing us a range of techniques that can be used to survey for invertebrates. The Group in

• Walk like an Egyptian

  17 March 2014

  Author Sue CurnockNature Tots Officer Egyptian Goose / Andreas Trepte, www.photo-natur.de.We must be one of the luckiest bird watching groups to venture out into the countryside around Woods Mill