Disease resistant elms
The Covid-19 lockdown has interrupted our plans for the five disease resistant elms donated to the park by Butterfly Conservation as part of their rescue plan for the white letter hairstreak butterfly.
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Butterfly numbers
Last year’s record breaking summer was an excellent year for butterflies, with more than half of Britain’s species increasing their numbers.
Continue reading “Butterfly numbers”Lambrok Stream by numbers
- 8.2 — The length in kilometres of the Lambrok from its source to its confluence with the River Biss.
Double flowers
If you are planting your flower beds and hanging baskets, keep our dwindling population of pollinators in mind and please don’t plant double flowers.
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This winter has been the hottest ever recorded in Europe.
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Somebody has stripped bark from the whole length of the trunk of tree number 5477. Why would anybody do that?
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This is a screenshot taken from the Environment Agency’s Flood Map; it shows the risk of Lambrok Stream flooding. We have dropped a yellow marker at the place where the access road to the planned development of 180 houses (planning application 20/00379/OUT) is intended to cross the Lambrok.
Continue reading “Flood Map”Bridging the Lambrok
Planning application 20/00379/OUT
The otters that come to Southwick Court moat are probably a female and maybe her last year’s cubs; they will have come to feed, via the Lambrok, from the Biss or even from the Avon. Planning application 20/00379/OUT does not show how the Lambrok is to be bridged without interrupting the otters’ route.
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The public consultation on planning application 20/00379/OUT has been extended.
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The Ecological Survey and Report that was submitted with Planning Application 20/00379/OUT says this:
Continue reading “More about 20/00379/OUT”Splatometer
Most of the Friends of Southwick Country Park are retirees, all of us inclined to begin sentences with: When I was a child….
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Here’s an interesting data set from the British Trust for Ornithology.
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Ecology survey and assessment report
Planning application 20/00379/OUT’s Ecology Survey and Assessment Report has been arbitrarily divided into six separate documents. This makes it very difficult to read, particularly as the contents page is in the first document and thereafter there are no page numbers. Stick at it, though; we have found it as interesting for its omissions as it is for its findings
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Changing temperatures are initiating plant growth earlier and earlier every year. In the park, there are already primroses in flower.
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Simon Tesler writes:
I’m the owner of the historic II* listed property of Southwick Court itself.
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By Barbara Johnson
This area of beautiful parkland bordered by the Lambrok Stream and situated in the West Wiltshire countryside, has a distinctly rural feel. It is a popular destination for families, walkers, dog walkers and runners and those who just wish to enjoy the fresh air and countryside.
A parkrun, held here every Saturday morning, attracts many people, both young and not so young. Exercise is good for our health and mental wellbeing and so much more enjoyable in such attractive surroundings.
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