tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280257722024-03-19T08:02:28.392+00:00Sussex Nature NotesSeasonal notes and observations on the flora and fauna in and around Sussex - and occasionally further afield. Plus news and updates on volunteering activities.Clare Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17770115200263999205noreply@blogger.comBlogger550125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28025772.post-29652903353469103422017-10-21T21:03:00.000+01:002017-10-22T21:09:16.182+01:00Task Force Storm BrianSDNPA Volunteers are a tough breed and Storm Brian wasn't going to put us off.<br />
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Despite a forecast of heavy showers and high winds, a hardy group met up for the weekend's task and headed out with the hope that we might make it to lunchtime before we got soaked, blown away or gave up as the weather got worse.<br />
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Working out near Mile Oak Farm just the other side of the A27. Fortunately the site was on the northern side of the slope, mostly sheltered from the wind.<br />
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Cutting back hawthorn bushes to stop the spread of scrub and allowing the grass and wildflowers to return to the slope.<br />
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The heavy showers didn't materialise and the few that did, didn't stop us or put the fire out.<br />
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Treated to a glorious full rainbow towards the end of the afternoon.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859219740616608058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28025772.post-43167190471005146322017-09-20T13:39:00.000+01:002017-10-23T22:14:37.447+01:00Swedish Canoe AdventureVentured across the North Sea for five days of canoeing and wild camping in Sweden as my fund-raising challenge for the year in aid of <a href="http://www.justgiving.com/clare-sweden" target="_blank">Odyssey</a>.<br />
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Starting out from just north of Ostersund and canoeing 90km down the Harkan river.</div>
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Taking all our supplies with us - food, tents and cooking gear in waterproof barrels. Camping in amongst the trees. Plenty of trees in that part of Sweden. Much used for timber.</div>
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Through lakes and reservoirs .and around islands</div>
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Cooking over a campfire which guarantees you smell of smoke for the whole of the trip ... and beyond.</div>
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Perhaps it was because it was late in the year and many birds had migrated. Perhaps it was because they hunt a lot of the wildlife, so it keeps a low profile but there was little to be seen along the river.</div>
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Although it's difficult to do too much bird-spotting when you're paddling down a river. A few ducks, geese and woodland birds. A couple of unidentified birds of prey too far away, even when I had managed to dig my binoculars out.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859219740616608058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28025772.post-31880607815517304432017-09-09T21:41:00.000+01:002017-10-24T22:02:15.135+01:00Stanmer Flint WallingThe repair of the flint walls around the Stanmer Park estate is coming along. Over the course of the year we've now finished another long stretch. Previous stretches have been capped and finished off.<br />
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This was the final flint-walling task for the year. A fiddly bit fitting in with existing wall and between trees.<br />
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Also limited by only being able to lay two layers at a time before needing to let it dry out and set before adding more on top.<br />
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Always satisfying to see a new area of wall that's been finished off, tidied up and repointed.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859219740616608058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28025772.post-35240976807167999962017-09-07T22:07:00.000+01:002017-10-24T22:08:18.304+01:00Newly emerged Red Admiral<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A freshly emerged Red Admiral sunning itself on a paving stone.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859219740616608058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28025772.post-56298335671252312017-08-26T22:22:00.000+01:002017-10-24T22:23:36.528+01:00New pond at PulboroughThis pond was dug out a couple of years ago and for most of the time hasn't had much water in it and didn't look more more than a muddy hole.<br />
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Up on the Downs today and again seeing posters and hearing about recent dog attacks.<br />
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Even if your dog isn't actually chasing sheep, they still see it as a predator and will run away if it comes close or they feel threatened - putting them under stress.<br />
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<li>A stressed ewe, can miscarry or abort the unborn lambs hours after the dog has left the area.</li>
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<li>A ewe that is close to giving birth and is disturbed by a dog, may miscarry, abort or have premature lambs.</li>
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<li>A sheep can die of stress after it's been chased or run away from a dog.</li>
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<li>Stressed animals are more susceptible to disease and if they have lambs the growth and quality of the lambs may be affected.</li>
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<li>New lambs separated from their mother will also die from cold and hunger if they aren't reunited quickly or can be rejected.</li>
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As a responsible dog owner and to ensure the safety of livestock, you <b>MUST</b> have your dog under <b>close</b> control or on a lead.<br />
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<b>'Close control'</b> - means keeping it close to you at ALL times, when walking near livestock. NOT allowing it to wander off away from you. Even if a dog is not interested in or chasing the sheep it can still stress them.<br />
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Close control means a short lead or knowing that you can reliably call it back if it wanders off and ensure it will return <b>immediately</b>!<br />
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<i>A dog owner (or person in charge of the dog) has committed an offence under the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953 (the act was added to by The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981) if their dog worries livestock on agricultural land.</i><br />
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<b>Worrying livestock means:</b><br />
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- attacking or chasing livestock where it may be reasonably expected to cause injury or suffering to livestock, to cause abortion, or cause loss or problems with their produce.<br />
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- being at large (i.e. not on a lead or otherwise under close control) in a field or enclosure in which there are sheep.<br />
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If you allow your dog to worry livestock or you don't have it under control, your dog could be shot - you could be fined £1000.
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Several times I've spoken to dog owners whose dog has run off after sheep and they are totally unable to call it back. Of course they claim it's never done anything like that before or would never attack but the damage has already been done.<br />
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If you are not able to control your dog, make sure it's on a short lead when around livestock, especially pregnant ewes or ewes with young lambs.<br />
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Several sheep and lambs have been killed by dogs getting out of their garden. If you let your dog out unattended, make sure it can't get out.<br />
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Farmers spend all year looking after their sheep and rely on their lambs for their livelihood. Don't allow your family pet to be the cause of the death of a sheep or lamb.<br />
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Thank you.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859219740616608058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28025772.post-67318801335898464382017-02-26T19:50:00.000+00:002017-07-23T19:51:34.898+01:00Clearing scrub for dormiceWorking on a small area of scrub just outside dormice which is home to dormice. Nest boxes have been put up and the scrub is being managed to encourage dormice.<br />
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Dormice nest boxes are placed with the hole against the trunk rather than away from the trunk.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859219740616608058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28025772.post-86818419579581619792017-02-23T20:21:00.000+00:002017-03-15T20:49:01.451+00:00Frogspawn 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There's a frog in there as well, judging by the plop as I get close.<br />
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Spot the raptors - yes, two of them. Buzzard and the peregrine doing fairly good impressions of fence posts.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859219740616608058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28025772.post-85108068064826121952017-02-12T18:22:00.000+00:002017-07-23T18:28:21.135+01:00Hedge laying at FolkingtonThis year's hedge-laying session out on the Folkington estate at the foot of the Downs. A very cold day with flakes of snow falling as we started out and flurries of snow and sleet throughout the day.<br />
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Volunteers had been working on this particular stretch of hedge all week. Very overgrown and not really much of an original 'hedge'. Short stretches of elder and hawthorn of varying ages between a line of oak trees. A good hedge with a variety of species is great for wildlife.<br />
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Under the guidance of Gary - a hedge-laying champion, our first task, clear out the area underneath to remove the ivy and elder and expose the bottoms of the stems.<br />
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Then having thinned out some of the branches, 'pleach' (cut) what was left and lay it to form the hedge. Trimming off and weaving in any branches to thicken up the basic hedge.<br />
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Finally adding stakes and binders to hold it all together. These are cut from hazel coppicing and trimmed to fit. The stakes at hand to elbow distance along the line of the hedge, winding the binders along the top to hold it all together. Cutting the top of the stakes into a neat line. Any gaps will be planted up with saplings.<br />
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Tools needed - axe, silky (hand saw), bodger, bill-hook, loppers. Commercial hedgelayers use chainsaws for speed.<br />
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You seem to end up taking out more than you leave in and it looks a mess until you add the stakes and binders which makes the finished length look much neater.<br />
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It's fairly straightforward but highly skilled and hard work. The experts make it look easy but for the inexperienced it takes a lot of chopping and care not to mess it up! Cutting through just enough to lay, without splitting, cutting too much or chopping it off completely!<br />
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There are different styles and techniques depending on the location, type of hedging plant, size and purpose - keeping grazing stock in or out. This was along arable land so more cosmetic than practical.<br />
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This is the South of England style - a bit short but we were working with what was there ... or not.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859219740616608058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28025772.post-82725628454145463392017-01-30T13:01:00.000+00:002017-02-14T10:44:43.078+00:00Big Garden Birdwatch 2017It's been quiet this year, over the Winter and in the run up to the weekend's Big Garden Birdwatch. Not seeing many of the regular species that used to turn up at the feeders - particularly chaffinch, greenfinch and goldfinch.<br />
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Perhaps because we've had milder winters or they're put off by the neighbour cats visiting the garden far too frequently or more worrying because of their decline in species numbers. I rarely see a greenfinch these days and goldfinches are certainly less frequent visitors. I used to see them almost daily.<br />
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On a positive note, perhaps more people are feeding their garden birds so they have more choice.<br />
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Feeder contains fat balls, fatty nibbles, sunflower hearts (saves the mess), dried mealworms and a bird table mix.<br />
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House sparrow 8<br />
Starling 3<br />
Blackbird 1<br />
Blue Tit 2<br />
Robin 1<br />
Dunnock 1<br />
Magpie 1<br />
Goldcrest 1<br />
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<b>Total species 8</b><br />
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Won't count the wood pigeon feathers I found the following day. Yet another cat attack. No corpse found this time, so it may have got away with a few feathers missing.<br />
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Good to see the house sparrow family turning up. They're the most consistent these days along with visiting blue tits - usually 2-3 and the starlings demolish the fat balls pretty quickly.<br />
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A regular winter visitor but the first one I've seen in the garden this year, despite the frequent cold snaps. I daresay this one won't hang around until the #BigGardenBirdwatch this weekend.<br />
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This is the first time I've seen one on the fat balls - one will usually visit the seed feeders and sometimes stay around for a few days, especially if it's very cold. It didn't stay long on this occasion having been chased off by the robin.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859219740616608058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28025772.post-26082748207395263042017-01-14T21:29:00.000+00:002017-01-15T21:44:53.349+00:00Special BranchFirst task of the year and out with Special Branch up at Stanmer Organics. Great turnout all round with nine of us turning up, despite the cold and recent snow, although not too much left on the ground.<br />
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Rebuilding two raised beds, further along from where we were working previously.<br />
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With nine of us we made quick work of it but only two people able to work on replacing the stakes holding up the boards.<br />
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Took a timely break in the polytunnel for lunch when it started raining.<br />
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As there were enough of us, we also set about trimming the overgrown willows either side of the polytunnel, adding the trimmings to the dry brush hedge along the edge of the wood.<br />
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So three tasks completed, rather than just the planned one ... and we finished early.<br />
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Lovely walk on the South Downs from the Jack and Jill windmills along to Ditchling Beacon and a loop return via the Chattri monument.<br />
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Early rain showers cleared and it was warmer than the past few days with lovely views to Brighton and the coast.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859219740616608058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28025772.post-28676444466705010802016-12-24T17:31:00.000+00:002016-12-30T17:59:43.510+00:00... and a partridge in a pear tree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sussex Wildlife Trust volunteers clearing scrub on Malling Down, Lewes.<br />
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A good Christmas turnout on a misty Sunday morning. Not too cold or windy.<br />
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Clearing a few small clumps of hawthorn, dogwood saplings and the ash tree felled last time, got the bonfire going. Sausage rolls and mince pies around the fire for lunch.<br />
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I occasionally see or hear one of these flying across the local park but one has never visited my garden feeders until today!<br />
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Definitely prefers the fat balls or the fatty nibbles and has now been seen on at least three days. It may of course have been sneaking in when I wasn't looking.<br />
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Well, this one was certainly a first for me and a real surprise as a visitor to my parents garden but then as a certain David Lindo <a href="http://www.twitter.com/urbanbirder" target="_blank">@urbanbirder</a> Rule No. 1 <i>"Anything can turn up anywhere at anytime"</i>! So why not.<br />
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Having got over the excitement of a wryneck and watched it move in and out of the flowerbeds it almost got taken out by a male sparrowhawk which caused all the birds on the feeders to dive for the hedges until it flew off again.<br />
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The wryneck then hunkered down for several minutes until it felt it was safe to move again.<br />
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A lovely weekend in the Lake District. The scenery is beautiful whatever the weather.<br />
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Got out for a couple of good walks in between showers, coffee, plenty of chat in good company.<br />
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Quite a few still in the pond but also finding them out in the garden too. Great to think that this years frogspawn has turned into these.<br />
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Created in a round pond container - intended for pebble fountains but just the right size for a small garden. So easy to make- just find a level site, fill with water and a few water plants and hey presto!<br />
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There's a small water lilly in the bottom - the main reason I wanted another pond. Strategically placed branch to allow small creatures to get out, like the froglets that will emerge from this year's tadpoles.<br />
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The Springwatch studio overlooking the reserve. Distant view of the presenters and film crew, although I did come across Martin Hughes-Games being filmed in a ditch.<br />
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Miles of cables around the site. You spot a few cables running along some of the trails and disappearing into a ditch or patch of scrub but surprisingly few cameras are visible.</div>
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A splash of poppies and dandelions along the roadside on the way in to RSPB Minsmere.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859219740616608058noreply@blogger.com0