by Julie Newblé
I thought I’d send in some pictures of early spring in the Country Park for those who can no longer go there.
Dawn in the park.
A beautiful photograph taken yesterday morning by Chris Jordan Seymour.
If you have pictures of the park, particularly quarantine pictures, send them in and we will post them in a gallery.
A gallery of blue tits.
A blue tit feeding in an oak tree, photographed last March by DKG
Native daffodils
Battered by the storms and drenched in rain, the one thousand native daffodils we planted around Village Green in 2017 are flying the flag.
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A gallery of pictures from Tuesday’s work party.
A gallery of photographs by DKG, taken in the park last winter.
Diane Wheeler has sent us beautiful pictures of the park in yesterday’s early morning frost.
Thank you, Diane.
The whole thing
“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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Fixing the car park: part 1
More will follow in 2020
A gallery of robins. . .
. . .photographed in the park by DKG
Sunset Gallery
Yesterday the sun broke through the mist just in time for sunset.
Pictures from a rain-soaked park
First frosts
by DKG
National Reptile Awareness Day
Yesterday was National Reptile Awareness Day and we missed it!
We make a habit of missing these National and International celebratory days. Sorry; we will try to do better.
Continue reading “National Reptile Awareness Day”The Lambrok in flood
Clive Knight has sent in his pictures of Lambrok Stream in flood. Take care, particularly if you have children with you; the water is deep and fast-flowing when the stream is this full.
Autumn Gallery
A gallery of pictures taken in a wet autumnal park this morning.
Did you lose a bike in 1987?
Did you?
Baby Squirrel
Dear FoSCP,
Thought you’d like these photos of a juvenile squirrel discovered in the park yesterday. I think it was probably ground feeding as there were no signs of injury and he scampered up the nearest tree after a brief look around! Lovely little chap 😊
Kind regards
Simon Handley
Pictures by Simon Handley
Peacock
Pictures of a peacock butterfly taken by DKG during the summer.
A gallery of the park’s many grey squirrels taken by DKG.
Dawn in the Park by DKG
Gallery of colours
A gallery of colour to lift the sombre, over-grown greens of all the latest pictures on the home page.
The Wildlife Wheel is ageing beautifully. The weathered and cracked wood is supporting a whole landscape of lichens that are colouring in the carvings. Here is a gallery of its creatures:
Southwick Country Park Nature Reserve 