With 2020 approaching, I’m looking back at the wildlife I spotted on the meadow over the past year.
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Not much happens on the meadow in August; the hay is gone and the volunteers are taking a break, so I took a walk around the meadow in the evening to see what was around.
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Restoring grassland habitat is a slow process. Each year, we get another point on our graph that tells us how we’re doing and then we have to wait another twelve months. To get this year’s point, Helen and I have been out with a clipboard and quadrat, surveying Cathedral Field.
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Join us for a morning stroll around the meadow to see and hear how the meadow and its wildlife are changing with the season. We’ll look at the wildflowers, birds and other animals.
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It really is busy in the meadow now. Some of the grass species are in flower, the dandelions are already starting to go to seed, animals are getting on with life.
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It may have felt like summer for a few days last week but March is the first month in (meteorological) spring and long range forecasts suggest we’re in for wet and windy weather.
Snow was the big news this week, but what else is going on on the meadow? Read More
This is the second year we’ve searched the meadow for plants in flower on New Year’s Day, but this year the weather was much kinder to us! In glorious sunshine we set out with ID books, hand lenses and plenty of enthusiasm to see what was we might find in flower.
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