Nature Notes – Sweffling

Nature Notes – December 2018

After I mentioned Redwings and Fieldfares last time, several people got in touch to tell me that they had seen

My first Redwing this autumn was almost at the end of October, in shrubs in next door’s drive. They often

The buzz last month (apologies for that, but it had to be said) was the appearance of very large numbers

In late summer we have fewer wild flowers in the verges and field margins, especially after this particularly dry year,

At the time of writing we have just ended a record hot, dry period (it would be misleading to call

The internet is well named. Being a net, it is full of holes, through which fell last month’s Nature Notes.

This seems a good time to include a piece about the Sweffling churchyard, which has been in such good colour

At this time of year, everything in the natural world seems to be changing particularly fast, with spring flowers appearing,

The large bird of prey, the Buzzard, seems to continually be on the increase. It is true that their habits

Among the Goldfinches on the bird feeder this February have been the hoped-for numbers of Redpolls. I get a lot