Litter
Lost and Found
Found in the car park at Southwick Country Park today; if it was you that lost it, please contact us:
email:- friendsofscp@outlook.com;
text and voicemail: 07747 408798
Mending fences
The county’s contractors have fixed the main gate, adjusted the lower entrance into Lambrok Meadow, put in a brand new oak gate post, and installed some new dragon’s teeth in the car park. Very nice.
Primroses
by Sarah Marsh
The Friends have recently planted 150 primrose plug plants in one of the wooded copses in the Village Green area.
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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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Goldfinch
An expedition into our archives produced this post from February of last year, and a beautiful picture of a goldfinch high in an ash tree taken by DKG
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Changing temperatures are initiating plant growth earlier and earlier every year. In the park, there are already primroses in flower.
Continue readingOver the weekend Wiltshire Council’s phones and website went down and with them all the links we had put into our posts about Planning Application 20/00379/OUT . Wiltshire Council has fixed the problem and all the links should work now.
Rooks in February
Before the end of February, the park’s rooks will have started collecting building materials for their nests. Here is a video that shows us what kind of behaviour to look out for:
Video by Film Studio Aves;
Header picture (CC0) pixabay.com
Bimbling
Mail from Ian Bushell:
“Bimbled round the park this morning. Somebody is still trying to drain the boggy area in Lambrok Meadow but I reckon we can repair the damage easily enough. I wish whoever it is would give it a rest.
Continue reading “Bimbling”A post from Southwick Court
Simon Tesler writes:
I’m the owner of the historic II* listed property of Southwick Court itself.
He continues:White letter hairstreak
While exploring in our species lists, we found a report of a white letter hairstreak butterfly (Satyrium w-album), reported in 2017 by an expert observer. This is a real rarity, a UK Biodiversity Action Plan priority species.
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The snowdrops are opening
The snowdrops in the copse in the southern corner of Village Green are beginning to open.
Video by Neil Bromhall
Header picture taken in the park by DKG
Here’s one of last year’s posts from snowdrop time:
SOUTHWICK COUNTRY PARK
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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Tremella
This is either yellow brain fungus (Tremella mesenterica) or witches’ butter (Tremella aurantia); even Wikipedia seems confused about it.
Continue readingInspector’s report on WHSAP
The button below will take you to Wiltshire Council’s Planning Policy page; the first item on the page is Wiltshire Housing Site Allocation Plan – Inspector’s report. There are two documents: Inspector’s Report and Appendix 1 – Schedule of Main Modifications.
Comment on 20/00379/OUT.
How to comment on a planning application
Yesterday, more than a thousand people read our posts about planning application 20/00379/OUT.
Continue reading “Comment on 20/00379/OUT.”20/00379/OUT: access road
Above is a map of the approximate route of the access road to and from the 180 houses that Waddeton Park Ltd has applied for permission to build in the fields to the north east of Southwick Court. (Planning Application 20/00379/OUT)
This deserves a closer lookPlanning Application 20/00379/OUT
Waddeton Park Ltd have applied for outline planning permission for the building of “approximately 180 residential dwellings” on the green fields at Southwick Court, between Southwick village and the southern edge of Trowbridge.
Continue reading “Planning Application 20/00379/OUT”A squirrel factoid
Unlike the dormice of yesterday’s post, grey squirrels can’t hibernate; their metabolism won’t let them put on enough weight to sleep through the winter.
Continue reading “A squirrel factoid”Dormouse hibernation
We have seen signs that there are dormice somewhere in the park. At this time of year they will be deep in hibernation.
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A gallery of photographs by DKG, taken in the park last winter.
Southwick Country Park Nature Reserve 