Monthly Archives: February 2018

Love of Nature, Nature Reserves

Hedgehog Day!

Mass Hedgehog Production. Cocoa or Plain (with a pinch of cinnamon). Someone should teach that Biscuitier that hedgehogs have very small eyes.
Hedgehog Biscuitier (apprentice).
Gazebos Rain Tea Hedgehogs. On the ground is not Snakes and Ladders, but rather Hedgehogs and Strimmers. People came through all day, with a brief lull at lunchtime, and an amazing number of hedgehog houses (real, out of corrugated plastic) and hedgehog models and drawings were made.
Colouring Hedgehogs in Felt Pen
Hedgehogs out of brown clay and Penne (with plastic eyes)
Soft Fluffy Hedgehogs
Natural History

A sunny winter’s day at Wraysbury

Muntjac Deer prints (3, 3.5 cm long)

I arrived at Wraysbury with nobody else about, the morning crisp and cold but lovely in the sunshine with no wind.

A dozen Goldeneye were calling their strange growling and trumpeting song, the males chasing about and displaying, throwing their heads back to call and signal. One or two females looked on, from a little distance.

A few Pochard and Great Crested Grebes made up most of the rest of the lake birds, apart from Tufted Ducks and a Black-Headed Gull or two.

The path had been trodden by Muntjac, large and small, not much earlier.

A Song Thrush sang, still a little hesitantly: it’s still Winter.

A small party of Redwings fluttered about in the bushes.

Over Hythe End, a pair of Red Kites circled and drifted along. A Pied Wagtail, the Chiswick bird (which is how its call sounds) sat on a gable end as I ended my walk.