New Year’s Eve

The old Oak leaves twined with the new Honeysuckle shoots seemed a fitting image to post on the last day of this year. ….

Friday, December 31st 2010

Observations

The temperature has risen and the thaw has definitely started.  Down on Risedale Beck the water level is high. ….

Thursday, December 30th 2010

Next Years Calendar

There are a few copies of the Foxglove Covert 2011 calendar left. If you would like to purchase one you can do so at the….

Wednesday, December 29th 2010

Winter Volunteer Day

All of the clay pads in the Mink rafts were checked today for footprints and luckily none were found. Mink are a threat to….

Tuesday, December 28th 2010

Christmas Eve

On the last day before Christmas all was quiet on the Foxglove front.  The sun shone from a blue, blue sky and backlit….

Friday, December 24th 2010

Winter Clear-up

There were not one, but two work groups on site today. Firstly, regular Thursday volunteers Mike and Tony carried on with….

Thursday, December 23rd 2010

Ice Crystals

The ice crystals from yesterday have been beautifully captured by Elizabeth's photo below. The crystals have not yet….

Thursday, December 23rd 2010

Foxglove Volunteer Christmas Party

Today was a memorable day, started off by the lunar eclipse as shown by John's picture below. Ten volunteers braved….

Tuesday, December 21st 2010

Frosty Foxglove

This morning staff at Foxglove were greeted by a cool minus five degrees and a spectacular rime frost over everything.These….

Sunday, December 19th 2010

Willow Workshop

The snow that fell last night has once again covered the ground here at Foxglove. That didn't put off the seven people….

Saturday, December 18th 2010

Clearance begins!

In preparation for the extensive work to be done at the lake next year we started to clear the ground. Even the Reserve….

Wednesday, December 15th 2010

Thaw

Although the overwhelming sound of today has been the drip, drip of thawing snow and ice, you can see that the ground….

Friday, December 10th 2010

Skis and Help

Brian looked very fetching as he arrived on skis to do some helping out! The snow here is still very deep and the access….

Thursday, December 9th 2010

Ladybirds and sledging!

Several volunteers came to Foxglove to have a walk around and look at future works. The deep snow meant that coppicing has….

Wednesday, December 8th 2010

Cold and Ice

This morning the sky was luminous and crystal clear.  As the sun rose the whole landscape was suffused in a rosy-pink….

Friday, December 3rd 2010