Natural History

Signs of Spring

LWT Intern Trainee learning to sharpen an Austrian Scythe. We mowed the Acid Grassland along the track of the old railway.

The first day of spring, and a Chiffchaff was singing down in the reserve. The hawthorn hedge, laid last year, is springing up into fresh green and thickening up nicely.

A Red-Tailed Bumblebee groggily clambered about
A Red (“Spider”) Mite crawled briskly about on a Willow stump.
Handsome Hoverfly