The damage to trees caused by woodpeckers…
This post comes on the back of a recent walk around Tetney Blow Wells with my brother. It was a cold, still morning and wildlife was distinctly hard to find. Walking through the wood we were stopped in our tracks by the unmistakable sound of a woodpecker ‘knock, […]
Finding the best place to see a kestrel….
Kestrel’s are fabulous birds of prey, the day I grow tired of watching them hunt is the day I’ll give it all up. The sight of a kestrel hovering over a field is truly one of nature’s great moments and one I shall never take for granted.
I am […]
What happens when we discard our trash on the beach…
Whenever I visit a place of natural beauty I feel lucky to be a part of it, I know that it was there long before me and, God willing will still be there when I am not. Woods, fields, valleys, beaches…wherever I go they all seem […]
Nocton Fen and Wasps Nest in the Winter….
Nocton Fen in Lincolnshire is a truly wonderful place. At first glance there is little more than a winding country lane which cuts through vast working fields with veins of dykes and ditches to break it all up. I have written about this favourite place of mine in […]
A visitors guide to Middle Rasen Plantation near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire…..
Across the road from Usselby Plantation is the much larger and quite brilliant Middle Rasen Plantation which I walked around for the first time with my brother this week.
Anyone living close to the A46 Lincoln to Grimsby road will find this quite easily with […]
Information and a visitors guide to a quiet haven in Lincolnshire…
Driving along the A46 between Lincoln and Grimsby there is a turn for Walesby. Take it and follow the road until you come across a sign on the right hand side for Usselby Plantation. Park the car and have a wander…..
Pond at Usselby Plantation […]
Photographs and information on Linwood Warren near Market Rasen…
Linwood Warren is a wooded area I stumbled across with my brother recently and what a find it proved to be. Truth be told we were looking for another, larger wood but this seemed like a good ’stop gap’ during a very cold winter’s morning.
Here is a […]
The truth behind the free light bulbs….
Last week I received a free present from my gas and electricity provider, N Power. Free energy efficient light bulbs. That’s generous I thought, but was it? Why have N Power given away free light bulbs? Well sad to say it would seem that it has nothing to do […]
How the importance of conservation affects us all….
I am introducing a new section to the blog for 2010 and one which is particularly close to my heart, conservation. I shall be writing posts on issues which I believe in, deserve covering and hopefully inspire thought and debate amongst everyone who reads it. This is by […]
Watching herons on the Lincolnshire Fens…..
Herons are an underated bird; elegant, graceful, powerful, deadly. They have it all, the ultimate fishing machine. Herons stand proud on river banks, motionless for what can seem an age they search the waters for eels and small fish moving only to plunge savagely below the surface with their long, […]