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Our Native #RedSquirrels Are more delicate than the introduced American Grays who carry a virus our native squirrels have no immunity to So they have been in decline for a long time now. Here at Sunnyhill farm Our Hazel Woods should be full of them so today I am posting a.......
My first portrait of my favourite #AshTree that looks like it might have succumbed to #Ash #Dieback. Nothing lasts for ever but I did think this beautiful giant would outlive me. It might just break my heart if it has to go because it’s near the house #1000postcards #trees
Todays card is one of my favourite moss covered #oak #trees it grows by a path in the woods near the entrance from top meadow.Some of the trees have ferns growing out of their bark owls living in holes where branches have dropped & burrows dug into their roots. #ancientWoodland
Have you ever wondered what happens to bumblebees in the winter? Only the Queen will survive she will over winter in a snug spot. In the spring she will collect pollen and build a little honeypot. Then having laid her eggs she will sit them like a chicken eating the pollen honey
In the winter when it snowed a beautiful #fox came to our garden for food.Suddenly all the birds flew away & from behind a bush the fox appeared I watched it from the kitchen window tiptoeing through the snow eating the apples & nuts I had left for the birds
It’s the time of year when mushrooms and toadstools are popping up in unexpected places and then suddenly vanishing again. I found these blackening wax caps growing right outside the house and the damp grass. #1000postcards #fungi #waxcaps #pembrokeshire
Gwyfyn in Welsh Papillon de Nuit in french beautiful in any language a good indicator of healthy biodiversity #MothsMatter #moths #1000postcards #biodiversity
Todays postcard is a detail from a work in progress #Appletrees provide a mosaic of habitats with their cracks & crevices fruit & flowers loved by #bats #voles #birds #bees numerous #insects #lichens #ferns mistletoe the list is too large for a tweet #1000postcards #botanicalArt
Chanterelles in golden clusters grow amongst the leaf mould in our woods There are signs that something has been digging & eating them a squirrel or badger maybe & the few that are left have been damaged by slugs. One day I will get to them first #1000postcards #fungi #mushrooms
The floor of the woodland is littered with discarded hazelnuts while up above the squirrels rush this way & that feeding themselves up for cold weather. The ancient coppiced Hazel woods provide five-star habitat for squirrels and hopefully dormice. #1000Postcards #biodiversity