Two for joy….
…but not when you’re a fox apparently. More from Cath’s garden video diaries. https://youtu.be/watch?v=5iFQ-Ql3OrA?rel=0
Hedgehogs – A Prickly Pair
Some more video diaries (hedgehogs this time) from Cath Corney’s garden in Woolston. She asks what these hedgehogs might be doing…. https://youtu.be/watch?v=LLwMrYosKWA?rel=0 And it looks like the mating dance between male and female. A female hedgehog will keep a male at nose length in this spiny pirouette until she has…
The harlequin of orchids
10 people arrived on a mild, dry evening for a short walk around St Mary Extra (aka Butts Road Cemetery) lead by Cath Corney. Cath gave a brief history of the Cemetery established in 1879 under Itchen Urban District Council, which was later taken over by Southampton City in 1922.…
Up with the Lark
When one of our longstanding friends said she wanted to go on a dawn chorus walk to find out more about the birds of an English spring, she had come to the right place. Jointly with Hampshire Ornithological Society (HOS) the Natural History Society was hosting a dawn chorus walk…
Fox News
Mexican standoff in a Woolston Garden courtesy of Cath Corney. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b2L59kTFCA?rel=0 If you have interesting video or still images from your garden that you would be willing to share, let us have them.
Butterfly Conservation 8th International Symposium
Attended by a few members of the Southampton Natural History Society, this Symposium recently took place over three days at Southampton University. Whilst many of the presentations dealt with climate change, conservation and landscape scale management, citizen science featured very heavily and demonstrated the value of the work organisations like…
March hares
A group of 12 Southampton Natural History Society members had a successful field meeting on 25 March 2018 (9.05am and 12.15pm) looking for Brown Hares. This meeting followed the regular Brown Hare transect (shown in yellow on the map below), that Andy and Linda Barker do each year, along the…
One Man’s Marshes – the birds and birders of Keyhaven and Lymington
Many of you will know Ed Wiseman the former warden of Kehaven and Lymington Marshes. Now retired, he has written a history of the marshes which will be of interest to anyone who loves our coastal habitat. Ed Wiseman gives a fascinating account of the local folk, marshmen and fishermen…
Meet the Rangers at Weston Shore
Join the Bird Aware Solent rangers and the Friends of Weston Shore to see the amazing birds that fly here every winter from as far away as the Arctic. They’ll be here to celebrate the bird life of this special stretch of coast; they can show you the birds of Weston Shore,…
Official Launch of Peartree Green LNR
Launch Event to Celebrate Local Nature Reserve Status Members of Southampton Natural History Society are invited to the official launch of Peartree Green Local Nature Reserve on Saturday 7th April. The Friends of Peartree Green are pleased to announce that Peartree Green has been declared a Local Nature Reserve (LNR)…