Spotting flowers growing wild in South East UK
Wildflowers on the Crab and Winkle Way After wildflower spotting along the north Kent coast, I headed west again to Whitstable then south, inland towards Canterbury. Wildflowers of Long Rock SSSI Swalecliffe Many flowers spotted in this Site of Special Scientific Interest were ones listed in my previous post. Crab and Winkle Way over…
Coastal flowers in Kent At the end of June 2019 I went for a walking holiday and spent a few days wandering from plant to plant along the north Kent coast between Swalecliffe and Faversham. Swalecliffe is on the coast a little to the west of Herne Bay. I walked west past Tankerton, Whitstable, Seasalter…
Birdwatching from a shepherds hut Mike and I were lucky enough to have two nights in a shepherds hut in the New Forest in early April. Set in farmland, the front door was only about four metres away from Roydon Woods Nature Reserve Although there was no direct access to the Wildlife Trust site, it…
Birdwatching near Seaford A couple of weeks ago I signed up for a beginners birdwatching morning with Mike Russell through Sussex Wildlife Trust It was mid April and a fresh but overcast day. Thirteen of us met up in the car park next to the river, and Mike took us for an amble along the…
Following the Great Stour Way June wildflower walk I had a fab weekend away in Canterbury in the summer and went for a walk out of the city along the river Stour. I left the city to the Southwest and followed the Great Stour Way through Hambrook Marshes towards Chartham. Wildflower meadow Right at the…