Bluebell gallery
Wednesday’s work party task for the Friends was to cut back the tussocks in the set-aside at the top of Kestrel Field and to slow down the advance of the brambles from the hedge between the set-aside and The Arboretum.
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A gallery of squirrels
We know they are an invasive alien species that inflicts terrible damage on our trees every year – but they are also much loved, long term park residents.
Header picture by Simon Knight
Wildlife photographer Simon Knight has turned his lens on our snake’s head fritillaries and sent us a gallery of beautiful images.
Conservation Status
Classified as Vulnerable on the Vascular Plant Red Data List for Great Britain. Nationally rare with only a few UK sites considered to hold wild populations.
Beautiful pictures from Chris Seymour of an early morning walk in the frosty park.
A gallery of snowdrops
Header picture by DKG
Christmas robins
A Christmas Eve gallery of the park’s robins, photographed by DKG.
Sunset Gallery
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Frosty mornings
Over the years we have been sent many images of frosty mornings in the park. Here are a few of them.
Some of our resident mammals
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[1] Wood mouse [2] Water vole [3] Pigmy shrew [4] Grey squirrel [5] Rabbit [6] Stoat [7] Common mouse [8] Brown hare [9] Badger.
Header image: hedgehog (CC0)
Pictures from a rain-soaked park
A gallery of autumn leaves
…and there’s more
by Clive Knight
Fly Agaric
by Clive Knight
This is a sequence of pictures of a Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) taken every day from last Friday, the 22nd, up until today, Tuesday 26th. The last picture shows the fungus fully developed at approximately 17cm across, but collapsed. I have found that when they are fully open they do not last long so I am keeping my eye on some more in the reserve hopefully to take pictures of one fully open and still upright.
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The header picture is the first in this series, taken by Clive Knight on Friday 22nd October.
Here are some of DKG’s many pictures of the park in autumn.
Autumn Gallery
A gallery of pictures taken in a wet autumnal reserve.
A look back to 2019: a long tailed tit photographed in the reserve by DKG.
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“It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for – the whole thing – rather than just one or two stars.” David Attenborough
Our park doesn’t have snow leopards or white rhinos. Our rarities are small and fragile: water voles, pondweeds, dragonflies zipping past so suddenly they make you jump, a visiting marsh tit, a linnet singing in the trees, little bottom-feeding fish. Then there are the hundreds of flowering plants, thousands of invertebrates and probably tens of thousands of species of fungi hidden away where we can’t see them.
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The extraordinary flowers of white dead nettles.
Bluebells
Simon Knight has sent us pictures of bluebells and says that this weekend, they will be at their best. Come and see.
Snake’s head fritillaries photographed in the park last week.
A gallery of squirrels
We know they are an invasive alien species that inflicts terrible damage on our trees every year – but they are also much loved, long term park residents.
Header picture by Simon Knight
Southwick Country Park Nature Reserve 