The period since WW2 has seen urban areas and, indeed farms, expand across the UK. The number of places where wildlife can thrive has been eroded. Gardens and lawns have been changed to provide parking for cars, lawns are mowed and ‘weed-killered’, or worst still replaced with artificial grass so there is not a weed […]
We had been looking for a wood preferably with a open area for sometime. We had a look at a few that were not right for us, thinking it was never going to happen. One day I opened an email and there it was - in September 2022. Golden Hill Wood, I immediately […]
To see the forests of The Fens, you would need to be a time traveller, as they were ‘lost’ some four thousand years ago. Today, The Fens are a low lying agricultural region that forms part of Norfolk, Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire. The Fens contain some of the best agricultural land in the U.K., growing […]
Every now and then, some trees produce massive numbers of their fruits and seeds. This sudden ‘excess’ of seeds / fruits, mens that the various animals that feed on the fruits / seeds cannot eat all of them - so many will survive to germinate, and go on to develop into seedlings and saplings. This […]
Bees and light Honey bees need to sleep. Unlike us, they do not sleep for long periods but they take ‘naps’ during the day and the night - within the hive where it is dark. If the hive becomes over heated, then bees will move outside the hive and beat their wings to fan […]