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Wet Weather and Wildlife

A team of intrepid volunteers turned out to help with practical site work today despite the grey and particularly wet weather….

The weather today was noticeably warmer than the previous week, a few flies buzzed around and the honey bees in the field….

Stacey has reached about half way through her time down at Signy and her chicks are growing up. This is a Chinstrap….

As usual on a Wednesday we started the day by checking the moth trap we had put out last night. Finds today included this….

I arrived this morning at the same time as one of our volunteers, John. He had recently spotted an unusual bird at Easby….

It wasn’t just ringing that we were busy with at the weekend: On Saturday we also had a party of children in exploring….

Checking on the ponies I thought I had an ideal shot of them, both more or less looking my way. Then I downloaded it….

In 2016 we ran a photo competition to find beautiful pictures for the 2017 Foxglove Covert Calendar. The response we had….

One of the jobs today was filling potholes in the access track. At this time of year they seem to develop especially quickly….