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  • Caterpillar food plants

    06 June 2022

    Caterpillar food plants

    Butterflies need varied, nectar-rich flowers to survive. But did you know that caterpillars need specific plants?

     
  • Go wild with a nature journal

    02 June 2022

    Go wild with a nature journal

    Mark Newton talks about his love of nature journaling and how it can cultivate curiosity and a deeper love of the natural world

     
  • Goldfinch: Bird song and calls

    01 June 2022

    Goldfinch: Bird song and calls

    The magnificent Goldfinch is a delicate, richly-coloured bird and one of our most enchanting garden inhabitants

     
  • Song Thrush: bird song and calls

    01 June 2022

    Song Thrush: bird song and calls

    The Song Thrush is the most familiar member of its family to have ‘Thrush’ in the name. They’re one of just a few birds comprehensively defined by their song

     
  • Blackcap: bird song and calls

    01 June 2022

    Blackcap: bird song and calls

    The Blackcap is regarded as one of the finest songsters within its extended family of warblers

     
  • Dunnock: bird song and calls

    01 June 2022

    Dunnock: bird song and calls

    The Dunnock is an overwhelmingly inconspicuous bird that in fact very much belies its meek and modest nature

     
  • Blackbird: bird song and calls

    01 June 2022

    Blackbird: bird song and calls

    The Blackbird is perhaps more familiar to us than any other bird, surely the species we associate most closely with our gardens

     
  • Wren: bird song and calls

    01 June 2022

    Wren: bird song and calls

    The Wren is a tiny little bird, but it packs a voice with huge punch

     
  • Chaffinch: bird song and calls

    01 June 2022

    Chaffinch: bird song and calls

    The Chaffinch, our most familiar British Finch. Perhaps surprisingly it’s the UK’s third commonest breeding bird after Wren and Robin

     
  • The Queen’s Green Canopy

    01 June 2022

    The Queen’s Green Canopy

    Ebernoe Common National Nature Reserve is part of a UK-wide network of 70 Ancient Woodlands and 70 Ancient Trees dedicated to Her Majesty in celebration of the Platinum Jubilee

     
  • Rye Harbour Nature Reserve sightings - May 2022

    01 June 2022

    Rye Harbour Nature Reserve sightings - May 2022

    Another super month for good birds at Rye Harbour saw at least three notable rarities on the reserve.

     
  • A short downland walk around Warren Hill

    31 May 2022

    A short downland walk around Warren Hill

    Our Eastbourne Local Group visited Warren Hill, looking for butterflies and downland flowers