Archive
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12 July 2015
My Work Experience Week
Samuel and Harvey joined the Sussex Wildlife Trust’s Gatwick Greenspace project for a week of work experience. They worked hard on practical tasks, with Nature Tots and Youth Rangers. Find out how they got on in their own words.
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11 July 2015
Snipe - Stayin' Alive
Common snipe can be seen all year round in Sussex, but they can be difficult to see because they like to hide away and are well camouflaged.
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10 July 2015
Event Report: The Carnival of the Creatures
An amazing day. The wildlife of the South Downs marches into Lewes for the Moving On Parade.
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09 July 2015
June Wildlife Sightings
Warm weather in June brought out the dragonflies and hummingbird hawkmoths. Wildlife sightings in June 2015 from the Gatwick Greenspace Partnership
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07 July 2015
Tangled up in slow-worms
Can you count ‘em all?
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06 July 2015
Schools
Like the children they bring, the schools that visit us here at the Seven Sisters Country Park, come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. We welcome every kind of school into our Pump Barn for their day out in the woods or on the park.
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05 July 2015
Event Report: The Secret Wildlife Festival 2015
Our 3-day wildlife festival returns for its third year.
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04 July 2015
Looking closely at flowers
I often admire colourful displays of wild flowers or look closely at rare ones, but do I really look closely at common ones?
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02 July 2015
Up Sparrow-scope
A pop-up sparrow.
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02 July 2015
June 2015: Rye Harbour nature reserve sightings
One of the characteristic insects of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve is the great silver water beetle.
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02 July 2015
The Night has a Thousand Eyeds.
Hawk-moth photographed at The Depot.
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01 July 2015
The Phantom of the Diptera
The phantom hoverfly is genuinely rare and difficult to find and is quite a convincing wasp mimic, even moving like a wasp.