Archive of: Southerham

  • Badger Vaccination in Sussex

    15 December 2015

    Badger Vaccination in Sussex

    Sussex Wildlife Trust - in partnership with the volunteer led Sussex Badger Vaccination Group - begun a five year programme of badger vaccinations at both our Malling Down and Southerham nature reserves.

     
  • Searching for the Orthopteran Orchestra

    17 September 2015

    Searching for the Orthopteran Orchestra

    In which we head off onto the Lewes Downs in search of the great green bush cricket.

     
  • Summer on the Lewes Downs

    19 July 2015

    Summer on the Lewes Downs

    Another lovely wildlife walk from Lewes to Oxteddle Bottom.

     
  • The Phantom of the Diptera

    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.

     
  • 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