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Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve. Ancient Yews, Iron-Age Monuments & Butterflies. 21.05.22
This must be where the Ents live, where dryads play and fairies sleep under toadstools — yet it is only three miles from the coastal city...

Sim Elliott
May 25, 202212 min read
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A Late Afternoon Afternoon Walk around The Coombe & Chalkpits of Malling Down LNR. 20.05.22
I took the 28 bus to Lewes, getting off at Lewes Waitrose, and walked into the reserve via Wheatsheaf Gardens (reserve not signposted)...

Sim Elliott
May 20, 20222 min read
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Whitehawk Hill. Morning Short Walk. Whitethroats, Blackcaps and a Kestrel. 19.05.22
9.05 I visited Bevendean Local Nature Reserve initially (taking the 7 and 48 buses), but because of the overnight storm, and the...

Sim Elliott
May 20, 20221 min read
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Butterflies at High & Over and Kittiwakes at Splash Point, Seaford. 17.05.22
On Tuesday, I went to High and Over, situated on Cradle Hill, above the Cuckmere Valley, to the west, between Seaford and Alfriston. The...

Sim Elliott
May 18, 20224 min read
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RSPB Rye Meads & Amwell (Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust) Nature Reserves 13.05.22
RSPB Rye Meads and Amwell Nature Reserves are located in the northern part Lea Valley (in Herefordshire) Rye Meads is an RSPB-managed...

Sim Elliott
May 17, 20223 min read
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Butterflies in Caburn Bottom and The Coombe (Malling Down). 12.05.22
This was a mid afternoon/early evening walk. I took the bus to Lewes from Brighton, and then took the train to Glynde. From Glynde...

Sim Elliott
May 13, 20222 min read
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09.05.22/3. Lewes Railway Land Nature Reserve. Grey Wagtail and reed habitat.
After visiting Malling Down Nature Reserve (Sussex Wildlife Trust, I walked down the path by Lewes Golf club that ends further down...

Sim Elliott
May 11, 20225 min read
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09.05.22/2. Malling Down Nature Reserve. Dingy Skipper, other butterflies and Meadow Pipits.
After visiting Bevendean Down Nature Reserve first thing on 09.05.22, I walked over the top of Bevendean Down to Moulsecoomb, where I...

Sim Elliott
May 11, 20228 min read
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RSBP Pulborough Brooks. Nightingales and Lapwing and Avocet chicks. 07.05.22
I travelled to Pulborough Brooks by train from Brighton (change at Barnham) to Pulborough Station, then I followed the Wild Art Trail...

Sim Elliott
May 8, 20221 min read
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Ouse Estuary Nature Reserve; birds, insects & plants in greenfield & brownfield areas 05.05.22
The Ouse Estuary Nature Reserve is between the A259 and Newhaven. East Sussex County Council says :The Ouse Estuary Nature Reserve was...

Sim Elliott
May 8, 20228 min read
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Newhaven Port Nature Reserve/Tide Mills: birds & flowering plants seen on 03.05.22
On the afternoon of 03.05.22 I took the 12 Bus to Tide Mills, between Newhaven and Seaford and walked around the Tide Mills site, and the...

Sim Elliott
May 4, 20224 min read
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Birds, Insects & Plants. Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve. 02.05.22
This is one of my more typical blog posts; it is a log of the birds, insects and plants that I saw at Titchfield Haven National Nature...

Sim Elliott
May 3, 20224 min read
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Conservation & Canvey Island. Brownfield (Canvey Wick) & Greenfield (West Canvey Marsh). 30.04.22
Typically my blog posts record what I have seen on my day nature trips, supplemented with some information on the species seen, and the...

Sim Elliott
May 2, 202233 min read
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South Downs National Park, fauna & flora from Seaford Head to Friston Gallops. 26.04.22
When I go for walks in nature, I try to be open to experience and enjoy every aspect of nature that presents itself, whether that be a...

Sim Elliott
Apr 27, 20225 min read
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Butterflies at Birling Gap & Friston Forest, wild flowers, and Swallows at Cuckmere Haven. 23.04.22.
My nature journey of Saturday 23.04.22 was of two parts: a walk around Birling Gap and Friston Forest and then a walk in Cuckmere Haven...

Sim Elliott
Apr 24, 202212 min read
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The Fulmar Colony from Ovingdean to Saltdean, 2021. An Article for the SDOS Spring Newsletter 2022.
At the end of last year (2011) I wrote an article for the Shoreham and District Ornithological Society on my Fulmar observations during...

Sim Elliott
Apr 21, 20224 min read
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RSPB Pulborough Brooks . White Storks; nesting Lapwings & Avocets; Sedge Warblers. 19.04.22 (pm)
I went to RSPB Pulborough Brooks by train. I typically get the train from Brighton to Pulborough, changing at Barham, and walk across the...

Sim Elliott
Apr 20, 20223 min read
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RSPB The Lodge, Sandy, Bedfordshire: heath and woodland birds. 16.04.22
I took the train from Brighton to Sandy; a Thameslink train to London Blackfriars, where I changed to a Thameslink train to Peterborough....

Sim Elliott
Apr 17, 20225 min read
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RSPB Pagham Harbour; first Terns of the year. 12.04.22
I travelled to RSPB Pagham Harbour by train (Brighton to Chichester) and bus (51 from Chichester). I went to Pagham as I went to Pagham...

Sim Elliott
Apr 13, 20224 min read
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RSPB Dungeness. Glossy Ibis. 09.04.22
On Saturday 09.04.22, I went to RSPB Dungeness in order to survey bumblebees as pat of a Bumblebee Conservation Trust's Short-haired...

Sim Elliott
Apr 10, 20222 min read
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