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  • 24 October 2014

    Ivy

    Ivy - The all-in-one nature reserve, kebab shop and goblin scarer.

     

  • 13 May 2014

    Ravens

    TODAY IS 750 YEARS SINCE THE BATTLE OF LEWES. THE BATTLE, FOUGHT ON THE DOWNS ABOVE LEWES

     

  • 20 March 2014

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

    Author Michael Blencowe Lewes Community Wildlife Officer There�s nothing that can lift my spirits more than learning that the first wheatears have started to arrive on the Sussex coast. After enduring the worst winter ever, I greeted the news of the first wheatear of 2014 with mild euphoria and I wanted to

     

  • 04 March 2014

    Nettle Pancake Day

    Try something different this Pancake Day. Nettle pancakes are one of the spring wildfoods that we prepare during Sussex Wildlife Trust’s Forest School events & training

     

  • 19 December 2013

    Everyone's favourite festive psychopath - the robin

    Author Michael BlencoweLewes Community Wildlife OfficerAmericans have chosen to align themselves with a mighty eagle. India have elected the elegant peacock. But we've voted an antisocial, murderous ball of anger as our national bird. So what is it about the robin that us Brits find so endearing?

     

  • 11 February 2013

    Wax on, wax off

    Author Michael Blencowe waxwings / Mark GrecoWaxwings are still causing quite a stir on their winter tour of the berry bushes of Sussex. There once was a time when people believed that the

     

  • 28 November 2012

    Redwing: Incoming transmissions

    Author Michael BlencoweTseeep. For centuries we have looked to the stars above hoping for a sign. An answer to all our problems. Tseeep. And each November we get one. But we're just too wrapped up in our little lives to notice. Tseeep. Stand anywhere on a clear November night and

     

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