Self guided families

Yesterday's heavy rain and snow and today's melting snow have left all of the becks at Foxglove completely full of….

Saturday, February 27th 2010

Badger prints and tree planting

This week has again been a busy one at Foxglove Covert. In spite of the wintry weather all of our regular groups have visited….

Saturday, February 27th 2010

Animal tracks

Although Foxglove was quiet in terms of people visiting today, the wildlife was really active! As you can see in this photo,….

Monday, February 22nd 2010

February workday

Our February workday took place in beautiful sunshine today. We were all centred on the woodland walk clearing up brash after….

Sunday, February 21st 2010

HRH The Prince of Wales

As you can see Foxglove had a very special visitor today. His Royal Highness, Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales came to….

Friday, February 19th 2010

Sun and shadows

Elizabeth took these photographs early this morning whilst the bird ringers were busy putting up mist nets. The low sun made….

Monday, February 15th 2010

Marie on the path

Another spring-like day and Marie was here again to continue work upgrading one of our stony paths. This involved wooden….

Sunday, February 14th 2010

Willie and Marie

Although we have had a couple of wintery showers, today has had a spring-like feel to it. The sun was shining from a blue….

Saturday, February 13th 2010

Catkins and volunteers

Even though the snow keeps falling and the winter seems set to continue, there are signs of spring around if you care to….

Wednesday, February 10th 2010

Colour ringing scheme

This Bullfinch was ringed today as part of the new colour ringing scheme at Foxglove. We hope that he might be sighted by….

Monday, February 8th 2010

Blackbird and Brambling

'Bossy Blackbird' or BB for short (one of our colour ringed Blackbirds) was back in the Field Centre garden yesterday.….

Thursday, February 4th 2010

Access road cleared

Today our volunteers braved the cold, snowy weather to cut back some willow along the access road. Richard used the chainsaw….

Wednesday, February 3rd 2010

Lichen-covered branch

As a relief from all the snowy pictures of late, here's a wonderful lichen-covered branch. The colours of these lichens….

Tuesday, February 2nd 2010

Icicles and bird ringers

Today has been very bright and cold. Amazingly there are still pockets of snow around. This picture of rounded icicles was….

Monday, February 1st 2010