Nature Blog by Jenny Bourne
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Kestrel Central and a frosty Monday morning
Wednesday 20th November 2019
Dave took a video and this splendid shot of a kestrel perched on the compost toilet pipe. There have been several sightings of what appears to be a juvenile kestrel…
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Bees and autumn webs
Wednesday 2nd October 2019
The bees are making the most of the sun when it comes out between the heavy rains – yesterday the heavens opened in a torrential downpour with thunder and lightning over Richmond Station.
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Exciting news - Brown Hairstreak butterfly
Monday 23rd September 2019
A very exciting piece of RPA wildlife news from last month – a sighting of a brown hairstreak feeding on garlic chives on 25 August, by Jon and Carol! To our knowledge this is the first time a brown…
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Sandbath time for juvenile kestrel
Tuesday 10th September 2019
Enjoying a coffee at Sunday’s Café in the warm sun when keen birders shouted out, ‘Jenny!’ and there was this juvenile kestrel…
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Juvenile robin opportunist, Painted Ladies, Red Admirals and flower patch
Wednesday 21st August 2019
Much amused by the very forward behaviour of this young robin that zooms in as soon as I start to weed; yesterday it almost sat on my shoe, so close it came.