The extraordinary flowers of white dead nettle (Lamium album); find them in our hedges and edges, besieged by pollinators.
Gallery of grey squirrels
The grey squirrel breeding season begins in February and the males will already be chasing the females through our woodland. We know they are an invasive alien species that does untold damage to our trees and competes for resources with our native wildlife – but they are just so cute.
All these images were taken in the reserve. If you have pictures of our squirrels, please send them to us; we would love to see them. Email full size to: friendsofscp@outlook.com
Lesser celandine
This warm, wet weather will bring all sorts of things into flower in the reserve. Lesser celandine, Ficaria verna, will be among the first to arrive.
Stunningly beautiful greater bindweed (Calystegia sepium).
Bloomin’ ‘eck
Header image by Peter White; all other images taken in the park by FoSCP members and attributed in the viewer.
Bluebell time
Header image by DKG; all the photographs were taken in the reserve
Blackthorn
Prunus spinosa
Header image by C.J.Seymour
Camouflage
Some of our residents are really quite hard to see. Here are some of the late DKG’s pictures of the well-camouflaged.
Header picture: public domain.
Some of our resident mammals
[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)
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
Beautiful pictures from Chris Seymour of an early morning walk in the frosty park.
A gallery of snowdrops
Header picture by DKG
Ten lords a-leaping
On this, the tenth day of Christmas, here are the extraordinary flowers of lords-and-ladies, the wild arum (Arum maculatum), photographed in the reserve in April.
Pictures taken in the park by Suzanne Humphries
Sunset Gallery
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
Autumn Gallery
A gallery of pictures taken in a wet autumnal reserve.
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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The extraordinary flowers of white dead nettles.
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
A gallery of snowdrops
Header picture by DKG
Frosty morning in the park
by DKG (2019)
Ten lords a-leaping
On the tenth day of Christmas, here are the extraordinary flowers of lords-and-ladies, the wild arum (Arum maculatum), photographed in the park during April’s lockdown.
Pictures taken in the park by Suzanne Humphries
Camouflage
Some of our residents are really quite hard to see. Here are some of DKG’s pictures of the well-camouflaged.
Header picture: public domain.
Southwick Country Park Nature Reserve 