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7 Up
Henfield DiaryNeil Fletcher takes a regular look at the everyday wildlife at Woods Mill, headquarters of the Sussex Wildlife Trust, and at his home in nearby Henfield. The chicks are seven days old. We have lost two, so are now … Continue reading
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Tagged bird eggs, blue tit, blue tit chicks, Henfield, nest box, nest box camera, springwatch
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Springwatch in Sussex: Kestrel Diary #6
Author Neil Fletcher Our chicks are beginning to look like little kestrels now, though with all that fluffiness they look bigger than their mum! She’s bringing in a vole about once every half-hour. There’s lots of preening to get rid … Continue reading
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Bird Song of the Week: Song Thrush
Author Neil Fletcher The song thrush competes with the blackbird for the title of last singer of the day. They are often to be heard ringing out their rather cheerful song [compare with Graeme's recording of the mournful mistle thrush] … Continue reading
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Springwatch in Sussex: Kestrel Diary #4
Filmed by Neil Fletcher The young kestrels are growing well on a diet of abundant voles. The chicks feathers are coming along and they are spending much of their time preening. The nest box is getting very messy and poo … Continue reading
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Tagged camera, kestrel, nest box, springwatch
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Springwatch in Sussex: Kestrel Diary #3
Author Neil Fletcher Our five kestrel chicks have suddenly turned into little thugs wearing over-sized furry parkas! They look disinctly uncomfortable in their downy coats but their tail and primary feathers are just starting to grow. They are quite happy … Continue reading
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How To Springwatch in Sussex
Author Mike Russell Springwatch; I haven’t checked but it wouldn’t surprise me if it was now a bona fide word in the Oxford English Dictionary such has seeped into our national conscience these days. The whole ethos of Springwatch is … Continue reading
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Posted in Author, Mike Russell, Wildlife
Tagged glow worm, hummingbird hawkmoth, poppy, poppy field, springwatch, stag beetle, swift
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Springwatch in Sussex: Kestrel Diary
Video footage from inside our kestrel box at Woods Mill Nature Reserve. At a guess, the eggs hatched around 20-23rd May, and the five chicks present when we started filming were all in good health and fairly evenly sized. We’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged kestrel, nest box camera, springwatch
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Springwatch Festival Needs a New Name
Author Amanda Solomon Visitors to this year’s Springwatch Festival in Stanmer Park, Brighton on Sunday 5 June (10:00-17:00) are being asked to put their thinking caps on and come up with a new name for the city’s annual wildlife celebration. … Continue reading
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Tagged Brighton, springwatch, Springwatch Festival, Stanmer Park
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Baby Birds
Author Jess Price The bird breeding season is in full swing and fledglings are dropping like flies, well not really flies, more accurately they are dropping like fledglings. At this time of year it is quite common to find baby … Continue reading
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Posted in Author, Birds, Jess Price, Wildlife, Wildlife Advice, Wildlife Garden
Tagged birds, Fledglings, garden birds, nest box, springwatch
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Caught on camera
Sussex Wildlife Trust’s Youth Rangers have been monitoring local wildlife around Brighton using movement sensitive cameras. Their results are worthy of Springwatch and have captured some pretty amazing night time footage of urban nature. Badgers at their sett Fox at … Continue reading
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Posted in Wildlife, Youth Ranger
Tagged badger, deer, fox, springwatch, stealth camera, Sussex Wildife Trust, volunteer
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