Category: Sightings

Sightings

Wednesday, May 15. While checking some of the ponies in the Ashdown area: saw three cuckoos in flight together, two calling. A pair of lapwings calling

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Sightings

Wednesday, April 16th.  Common whitethroat at Berwick and at Warren Glen, Hastings. One adder seen at Warren Glen as was red campion in flower. Thursday,

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Sightings

Sunday, April 6th.  Ashdown; heath milkwort in flower. Monday, April 7th.  Rain and more rain! Tuesday, April 8th.  Ashdown; common redstart.  Nr. Isfield; 1 x swallow

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Morning Chorus

Over the last few mornings, I’ve become very aware of the morning chorus, such a wonderful cacophony of sound after the long, wet dismal winter.

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This Week’s Pony News

Thursday, 20th. Heard my first chiffchaffs of the year while checking ponies at Lane End Common at Chailey. Friday, 21st. A cool but sunny spring day, with

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Spring On The Coast

Thursday, March 13. Enjoyable walk along the coast at Hastings Country Park…  Warm sunshine, little breeze, sleeves rolled up.  Saw the first sinister growing-tips of

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Robbed In Brighton!

There we were yesterday, a beautiful sunny Saturday afternoon outside the Churchill Square mall in Brighton.  Being a little ‘peckish’ we had just crossed the

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Wintering Swallow

Heard from a reliable source, that a single swallow has spent the winter in Nutley, East Sussex.  must have an aversion to all that warm,

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Animal Antics!

Lunchtime… 1)  Received a call from a visitor to Chailey Common (Red House Common), who reported the following account of when a woman returned to her car.  I’ll

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