Moths in the night
On 21/22 August Tom set up my moth trap and his generator and a friend of mine camped overnight in …
The 2023 Season
Tom Parker, who walks a ‘butterfly transect’ which includes Park Copse every week during the butterfly season reports as follows… …
Another world….
The world of the documentary film is a complete unknown to me, but Anny Tubbs, the film director and founder …
July at Rosemary Lane
It isn’t all about butterflies. There is also a district heating system to run. This month was marked by the …
An Abundance of Browns
What a difference a week makes…This week Tom says … 338 butterflies on the whole transect route today including Sidney …
Mid season report…
Pretty shaky start to this season, very slow but with the hot weather Tom says it is picking up. On …
Start of the 2023 butterfly season
Lovely sunny day and the bluebells are out in force. We have the native Hyacinthoides non-scripta – very dark blue, flowers …
Butterflies Vanishing
Interesting but depressing report in the Guardian by the Nature Correspondent Patrick Barkham who wrote an article about us back …
A Very Large Sieving Machine
To sort out the issues with the chip in the barn and improve the quality of the chip in the …
The Art of Wood Chip
I’ve decided to recommence writing a blog about my experiences with the woodland and the biomass after a gap of …