Category Nature Notes 2022

Nature Notes July 2022

Summer is associated in many people’s minds with butterflies, those beautiful insects that flutter lazily around the garden and the surrounding countryside. Some of the smaller butterflies, such as the skippers, are easily overlooked

Nature Notes June 2022

One of our readers, Rose Barlow from Huncote, sent in the above picture of Mute Swans on the pond at Croft Hill Nature Trail. Rose has just recovered following a nasty fall whilst out walking which resulted in a broken leg. She was thrilled not only to be able to walk to the pond, but also to see that the swans had returned.

Nature Notes March 2022

Following on from letters and photographs that were sent in for publication earlier this year, we have received more communications about albino Grey Squirrels in our area. Paul Baxter wrote in with the picture above of a white squirrel that has been entertaining them in their garden at the ambulance headquarters of the Pastures since last September.