tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35448642379107207872024-03-19T03:53:06.576+00:00Newhaven WildlifeSteven Tealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12354452846438858378noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544864237910720787.post-3574138383876186332021-01-03T13:52:00.001+00:002021-01-03T13:54:52.130+00:00Newhaven's Open Spaces - places for wildlife and memory vaults<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Memory might be mapped
across our lifetimes as a line of recollections, fading in a slow
dissolve over time into a series of punctuated dashes and dots.</i></span>
</h2><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCO044R78b6pG7QZvdtsyOaWQrxYYdfnW4gLPfJ2F-jc3zWLOjY4w2ihagFaqui0yk-viQhQv291bz-q5K2rCHxNTk1uXbm9lPNODpGQgtUgguAk4rahagzd74cPSOoe27FmiVZFfVp-U/s1520/1987+March+The+Ouse+Valley+and+Metcalfe+Avenue+taken+from+the+Union+Field+sandpit+at+Meeching+Down.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1003" data-original-width="1520" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCO044R78b6pG7QZvdtsyOaWQrxYYdfnW4gLPfJ2F-jc3zWLOjY4w2ihagFaqui0yk-viQhQv291bz-q5K2rCHxNTk1uXbm9lPNODpGQgtUgguAk4rahagzd74cPSOoe27FmiVZFfVp-U/w400-h264/1987+March+The+Ouse+Valley+and+Metcalfe+Avenue+taken+from+the+Union+Field+sandpit+at+Meeching+Down.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from Meeching Down, Newhaven, 1987<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I've lived in Newhaven
for nearly fifty years – a period of time long enough to have
developed a deep and intimate passion for the town, a sense of place
and a firm and unshakeable 'rootedness'. I've lived in six different
places around town which, when plotted on a town map, form a shape
which reminds me of the constellation of Orion the Hunter, a pattern
of stars which climbs above the southeastern horizon each evening at
this time of year, his loyal hunting dogs* at his side.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I have felt the most in touch
with the daily pulse of the town while living in our current home, thanks in part to a broad view across the Ouse Valley. We
see the comings-and-goings of the ferry and trains, the red flashes
of the level crossing lights, the traffic passing or tailing back
over the flyover, and people walking with their dogs along the beach
at Tidemills. At least six nature reserves can be seen from the
house, along with a few other smaller open spaces. Three of these
(Castle Hill, Meeching Down and Bollen's Bush) form three clay-rich
outcrops along the skyline which might be called Newhaven's 'three
peaks'.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">For a busy industrial
port dominated by the flow of things through the town onto other
places, it feels to me that we have a good share of open spaces. A
quick calculation of the 720 hectares contained within the Newhaven
Civil Parish produces a land area for the six nature reserves of
approximately 112 hectares, or about 15% of the town's land. Added to
this are several other open amenity spaces, undeveloped land
containing woodland and scrub, hinterlands between surrounding
parishes and the embracing South Downs National Park. I don't know how this
compares with other towns elsewhere, but it feels like something
worth cherishing and protecting.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">These special places
contrast with other parts of the town which have changed during my
fifty years: the riverside quays have become more of a sink for waste
materials passing through from elsewhere; areas of the Valley,
Newhaven Heights and the floodplain have been developed or are in the
process of development; and other patches of land such as the recent
destruction of some stunningly diverse chalk grassland at The Crescent in
Denton** have been irreparably damaged by inconsiderate management.</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgABvIygfo1qy8NskZenyAsXtEApNI9pbyz1PL3v3vDCBiu1FTFDQY0XSgbkVtkANHtC0AOSMpL8YoPLD6RkrMEwBcuetL1AJBISI9ixnyq3uGNaaaZ6tcfABMr73r3RXPqKSCqUvKv0xY/s857/Moth-trapping+poster.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="857" data-original-width="624" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgABvIygfo1qy8NskZenyAsXtEApNI9pbyz1PL3v3vDCBiu1FTFDQY0XSgbkVtkANHtC0AOSMpL8YoPLD6RkrMEwBcuetL1AJBISI9ixnyq3uGNaaaZ6tcfABMr73r3RXPqKSCqUvKv0xY/w291-h400/Moth-trapping+poster.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Open spaces bring people together<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The special places we
have now are crucial refuges and interconnecting corridors for
wildlife, but they are important also for things like the town's
character, our collective social identity and places to meet and
enjoy time away from the thrum of daily life, to pause, reflect and
contemplate. To create memories. All these things combine to grow our
individual and collective sense of <i>rootedness</i> in the town –
like a form of social and cultural woodland, our roots holding
us together, anchoring down our seaside community. Having places where happy experiences and
memories are lived is central to this.
</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Memory might be mapped
across our lifetimes as a line of recollections, fading in a slow
dissolve over time into a series of punctuated dashes and dots. A memoir expressed through the medium of Morse Code. At
Meeching Down ('The Union') I can remember my Dad lifting me up so
that I could see the sea above the line of willows behind Northdown Road, learning to ride
a bike, playing in the sandpit, sledging down the snow-covered hill
towards Brighton Road, an encounter with a Woodcock which is as fresh
in my memory as if it happened just yesterday; and, more recently, an
enjoyable evening of moth trapping with local families. When I think about those dots and dashes, I'm amazed by how many were made in the town's open spaces. </span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwXMy-6v8w_mnyJbq0X5ZmhvTNtafqsbQWegdpiCl-ecy2hW-RnpMc_LDq39m7dhWKEFvuXFgVA3s_Ke1CP-gXk19_yB1t6DwZXeXDsyR6BmU-c69nVAfB1nAAewnoYJKAeHf1NcdTc-w/s2048/1972+Union+%25235.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2048" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwXMy-6v8w_mnyJbq0X5ZmhvTNtafqsbQWegdpiCl-ecy2hW-RnpMc_LDq39m7dhWKEFvuXFgVA3s_Ke1CP-gXk19_yB1t6DwZXeXDsyR6BmU-c69nVAfB1nAAewnoYJKAeHf1NcdTc-w/w400-h260/1972+Union+%25235.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me on The Union (Meeching Down) in 1972<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;">These are places where we come together and create
memories. They have been especially important during the Covid-19
crisis, even if we have not been able to meet in such great numbers. They deserve our care and good stewardship. This year is important for the UK's role in environmental
management, on both the local and global stages, and it has begun with
our exit from the European Union and its changes to environmental and
farming laws and culminates in September with the COP26 meeting***.
</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;">I want to challenge every person this year to find
their voice and speak up for nature and the environment, to be a part of promoting
the value of open spaces for now and the future and to get outside
and create those moments which live long in the memory. Places which live in the front of our minds are safer and more resistant to change.</span><br /></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Notes</u></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">*Canis Major and Canis
Minor. See: <a href="https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/canis-minor-constellation/">https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/canis-minor-constellation/</a></span><span style="font-family: arial;">. </span><br /></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">**Following a change in
ownership of a small plot of land with good quality semi-improved
chalk grassland and which had been sensitively and lightly grazed for
many years, the new owner fenced off a right of way crossing the land
and cleared the flora back to the chalk substrate for an unconfirmed
change of use. The South Downs Planning Authority has since ordered
the owner to reinstate the land, but the rich diversity of flora will
take decades to recover, even with favourable management.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">*** The COP26 summit
will bring nations and non-governmental organisations together to
accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNCCC). See:
<a href="https://ukcop26.org/">https://ukcop26.org/</a>.</span></p>
Steven Tealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12354452846438858378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544864237910720787.post-2088163937040535272020-12-30T08:11:00.006+00:002020-12-31T19:32:58.924+00:00Is Brexit the path to sustainable farming?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu6sPC1nfVemMEQviBsD2iNiGZ61U0nrM8_OU2zNSaQxKO24ldqEqkp1-ycKFb1gyerYgfL9ido1jFn1ILUt5yBugzzbcVLvAYyD945n0J0WAP0VLZJntngP4bY6mkMLZ_mbiR0dlWH44/s2048/IMG_2838+January+farmland+scene.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu6sPC1nfVemMEQviBsD2iNiGZ61U0nrM8_OU2zNSaQxKO24ldqEqkp1-ycKFb1gyerYgfL9ido1jFn1ILUt5yBugzzbcVLvAYyD945n0J0WAP0VLZJntngP4bY6mkMLZ_mbiR0dlWH44/w400-h266/IMG_2838+January+farmland+scene.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>However one feels about Brexit and its effects, one certainty is that farming and farmland, as we have known it during our EU membership, will change. The <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/21/contents/enacted">Agriculture Act 2020</a> was enacted in November and with it began a seven-year transition in which English farmers will adapt to a new financial support system to replace the Common Agricultural Polcy (CAP). </p><p>The CAP has many criticisms and I doubt many wildlife conservationists will mourn its end. Under the scheme, farmers receive a <i>Basic Payment</i> subsidy based on the size of their farmed land. The intention is to <span class="ILfuVd NA6bn"><span class="hgKElc">guarantee minimum levels
of production so that EU citizens have enough food to eat, and to ensure
a fair standard of living for those dependent on the agriculture sector. The older EU states receive a larger payment per hectare than the others and France, Germany and Spain are considered to be the greatest beneficiaries of the scheme, which amounts to nearly </span></span><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn"><span class="hgKElc"><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn"><span class="hgKElc">€60 billion annually</span></span>.<br /></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">The policy has been
accused of ignoring the rules of supply and demand, favouring larger farms and industry giants. It has promoted overproduction of food by member states,</span></span><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"> creating mountains of surplus food, which goes to waste or is transported to </span></span><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn"><span class="hgKElc">developing
nations, thus undermining the livelihoods of local endemic farmers.</span></span><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"> It has also restricted development in
poorer non-EU countries by imposing import tariffs on their agricultural products. It has also created bland farming landscapes as a result of of its broad-brush approach to farming strategies, with a narrow diversity of farming practises, grazing regimes and crop rotation. </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">On 30th November Defra published a <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/agricultural-transition-plan-2021-to-2024">roadmap</a>: <i>Path to sustainable farming</i>. This sets out the key aims of the seven-year transition. Instead of the flat-rate <i>Basic Payment</i>, farmers will be rewarded for engaging with farming practices that have environmental benefits. These will promote wildlife, reduce flooding, improve soil health, reduce soil erosion and include positive adaptations to climate change. This is summarised in a Government blog</span></span> <a href="https://deframedia.blog.gov.uk/2020/11/30/the-path-to-sustainable-farming/">here</a>. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSUr1HM5L-deRszy21W_3O_71teQZh2dkKWCKMr3ox5vzW5cObkb4Lpk3bPXbXJNohg4iQidUvanZDq1BptU32zBD5ut26479u9u8X2NIrTGCgCQ2ediKPtsiovx9y8qklFM99Et8VzRw/s2048/95.+Rural+scene+in+Norton+%255B28.04.06%255D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSUr1HM5L-deRszy21W_3O_71teQZh2dkKWCKMr3ox5vzW5cObkb4Lpk3bPXbXJNohg4iQidUvanZDq1BptU32zBD5ut26479u9u8X2NIrTGCgCQ2ediKPtsiovx9y8qklFM99Et8VzRw/w400-h266/95.+Rural+scene+in+Norton+%255B28.04.06%255D.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>What might this mean for farming in the Greenhavens area? There is genuine hope that we will see more diversity in crop production and grazing regimes, better marginal environments around fields, the development of wildlife corridors, land being taken out of regular production, a reduction in the intensity of farming practices, creation of a greater mosaic of land uses, a reduction in the use of biocides, improvement in aquatic and semi-aquatic habitats, development of seasonal floodplains, more tree planting, greater public access onto enclosed land and a positive improvement in the visual amenity of farmland. The list is not exhaustive, but there is an opportunity to transform the current bland farmland aspect to one of a diversity of interconnecting habitats which will help British wildlife to recover from the damage it has suffered since the post-war intensification of farming.<br /><p></p><p>There is, however, a recent cautionary tale from the Lake District that all landowners and regulating authorities should keep at the front of their minds, and that is the rush to indiscriminately plant trees in order to achieve targets, such as those set by carbon sequestration to reduce the impacts of climate change and the Forestry Commission's committment to plant 30k hectares of trees every year until 2025.<br /></p><p>With a decline in public services since 2010, environmental regulators have fewer staff on the ground and there has consequently been an erosion in local knowledge, with a greater reliance on computer models and desk-top studies. The Forestry Commission (FC) is one such authority which inadvertently became a victim of this.</p><p>The FC is the responsible authority overseeing afforestation by private landowners. The owners of Berrier End Farm near Penrith in Cumbria, an area on the edge of the Lake District National Park, asked for permission to create a commercial conifer plantation. </p><p>The FC required them to submit an Environmental Impact Assessment, a breeding bird survey and archaeological assessment before granting permission. A GIS mapping system was used to identify any priority habitats on the land proposed for afforestation, but because Berrier End Farm has no formal designation or protection for wildlife, and because no field surveys were carried out, its rich wildlife habitats with peat bog and transitional mires with a wealth of rare plant communities was not identified. </p><p>Once permission was granted, responsibility was passed from FC to the Countryside Stewardship and the Rural Payments Agency for grant payments. It wasn't until areas of deep peat were ploughed, destroying important wildlife areas, that a local botanist raised the alarm with FC. But by then it was too late.</p><p>The FC genuinely cares about wildlife and it has been embarrassed by this episode in large part because it is struggling to fulfil its priorities as a result of Governmental resource cuts. </p><p>A vibrant community of wildlife enthusiasts will need to engage with the new farming regime if similar unintended consequences are to be avoided - and this applies to the Greenhavens area as much as anywhere else. Let us hope then that the new Agriculture Act 2020 helps to improve all apsects of our farmed landscapes without harming wildlife and habitats and that 2021 will be the beginning of positive change.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn1k_49WyDwxNIaoE_JKdr7nnEejrKOh9sLVk29hui4W17i_0vcJQxJmLRrAyk8BoRz9KuOu8AKcgm4oQD28ujo67CHBhus6-DNu-B5u1uY_U1qfr6LwGLwG_2Q7QvV982OfZ6bOWt2Mo/s2048/208.+Shades+of+green+at+Stump+Bottom+%2526+Blackcap+Hill+%25233.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="2048" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn1k_49WyDwxNIaoE_JKdr7nnEejrKOh9sLVk29hui4W17i_0vcJQxJmLRrAyk8BoRz9KuOu8AKcgm4oQD28ujo67CHBhus6-DNu-B5u1uY_U1qfr6LwGLwG_2Q7QvV982OfZ6bOWt2Mo/w400-h260/208.+Shades+of+green+at+Stump+Bottom+%2526+Blackcap+Hill+%25233.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>All photographs by Steven Teale.<br /></p>Steven Tealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12354452846438858378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544864237910720787.post-66804827486144418362020-12-21T16:16:00.002+00:002020-12-21T16:16:27.817+00:00Hibernating wildlife – dormancy as a winter survival strategy
<h1 class="western" style="text-align: left;"></h1>
<p class="western"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDSU9TqJtrBkPE7yZrKSPWXXv6bIO2CtHcsorqOwLdEUDxafxlrAKvyRvShw9HM_PLBRDA0k8YY_8t8Qby6rbjSbOA3yl6PCIfW-GFESnKi_6iULlH2vgpi7NqxwzyNDzqJu-5TBA-rr4/s2048/IMG_0633.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDSU9TqJtrBkPE7yZrKSPWXXv6bIO2CtHcsorqOwLdEUDxafxlrAKvyRvShw9HM_PLBRDA0k8YY_8t8Qby6rbjSbOA3yl6PCIfW-GFESnKi_6iULlH2vgpi7NqxwzyNDzqJu-5TBA-rr4/w400-h400/IMG_0633.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An overwintering Peacock butterfly at Newhaven Fort tunnels<br /></td></tr></tbody></table> </span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hibernating
wildlife – dormancy as a winter survival strategy</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Did
you know that the Dormouse is named after the French word meaning 'to
sleep': <i>dormir</i>? It's one of quite a few British wildlife
species which have adapted to winter by dodging it entirely.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We're
halfway through the darkest time of year and have arrived at that
brief moment of suspended animation, the Winter Solstice, when the
days neither shorten nor lengthen. The world seems to be in a state
of dormancy. For much of our wildlife the toughest time still lies
ahead. Food is in short supply; life is full of challenges. Species
that aren't able to migrate need to tough it out, but some species
have adapted to conserve their energy by hibernating.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Much
energy is saved by entering a state of torpor – the result of
reducing heart rate, breathing, metabolism and body temperature. The
depth of torpor varies between species and it is punctuated with
periods of activity within their <i>hibernaculum</i><span style="font-style: normal;">,
a </span>place of hibernation and<span style="font-style: normal;">
relative safety, protected from the extremes of temperature, humidity
and wind.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Hibernating
animals still burn energy, but at a much reduced rate. They need to
ensure their fat reserves will sustain them throughout the winter.
Like migrating species, hibernating creatures feast on the autumn
harvest in order to maximise their body fat before entering the
hibernaculum.</span></p>
<h5 class="western" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Who
hibernates?</span></h5>
<p class="western"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Insects</span></span></strong></span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Most
butterflies spend the winter as eggs (ova), larvae or pupae, but some
species hibernate as adults and emerge on warm winter days and at the
start of spring as the day-length increases. These include the
Brimstone and Red Admiral, which hibernate deep within vegetation,
and the Peacock and Small Tortoiseshell, which seem to prefer
structures such as unheated buildings or rabbit holes, providing the
light, temperature, humidity and ventilation are stable. Rabbit
warrens are excellent places to search for emerging butterflies on
warm, sunny spring days.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Many
moth species also hibernate as adults, including the stunning
leaf-like Herald<span style="font-style: normal;"> and the Bloxworth
Snout, a</span> recent UK colonist which is tolerant of the cold and
usually only enters a light hibernation.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If
you have ever noticed swarms of ladybirds in late-autumn around your
windows and doors, these are likely to be the Harlequin Ladybird<span style="font-style: normal;">
– an invasive Asian species released in Europe to control aphids.
Hibernating around fenestration protects them from frosts and
moisture.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Some
fly species also hibernate and the one most commonly encountered is
the Cluster Fly, a parasite of earthworms, which likes to hibernate
in roofspaces and false ceilings. </span>
</p>
<p class="western"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Reptiles
and Amphibians</span></span></strong></span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">All
British reptiles and amphibians hibernate, although my pond often has
active frogs around it deep into mild winters. Palmate newts
overwinter in the damp ground beneath logs and stones, where they are
protected from predators and frosts. Reptiles such as snakes and
lizards choose dry hibernacula such as old burrows and compost heaps.</span></p>
<p class="western"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mammals</span></span></strong></span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
only geniune mammalian hibernators are hedgehogs, dormice and bats,
but most other species including rodents and badgers become less
active. Bats are often found in similar places to butterflies and
moths. Hedgehogs make a hibernaculum from dead vegetation and emerge
only to add extra insulation if the temperature drops too low. </span></p><p class="western" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Fely-OdaALDAIp5PkCsZmCL5fWtoKLAXD9BdECU0o0vUkHg5e4LNxZ7s6omgaIGxNHbBfR01VBO6iKIww0jV8kCpRqLq1Uf36uy5oNYY1UI4VgW8MPXr_XH9JnwuNVxaoPSt9X9K5bQ/s2010/72.001+2469+Herald+%2528Scoliopteryx+libatrix%2529%252C+Newhaven+Fort+tunnels+%25232.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2010" data-original-width="1901" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Fely-OdaALDAIp5PkCsZmCL5fWtoKLAXD9BdECU0o0vUkHg5e4LNxZ7s6omgaIGxNHbBfR01VBO6iKIww0jV8kCpRqLq1Uf36uy5oNYY1UI4VgW8MPXr_XH9JnwuNVxaoPSt9X9K5bQ/w379-h400/72.001+2469+Herald+%2528Scoliopteryx+libatrix%2529%252C+Newhaven+Fort+tunnels+%25232.jpg" width="379" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A hibernating Herald moth (<i>Scoliopteryx libatrix</i>)</td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><p class="western" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gardening
for hibernating wildlife – how you can help wildlife in winter</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Not
tidying parts of your garden will help to provide space for
hibernating wildlife amongst long grass and vegetation. Creating
log-piles, a compost heap or making a bug hotel will help insects,
amphibians, reptiles and mammals overwinter. Remember though to check
bonfires before they are lit for hedgehogs and other species. </span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">You
might find a butterfly or moth inside your home which has been woken
by the central heating. By holding them gently it is fine to place
them in an outbuilding or in a hedge that can be safely exited when
spring arrives.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
effects of climate change can confuse species, especially if warmer
winter temperatures cause them to emerge before there are sufficient
food or nectar sources to sustain them. This can be especially
harmful to bees, which are among the earliest hibernators to emerge
on warm winter days, when there are few or no natural nectar sources.
Growing winter-flowering plants and shrubs can help them, as well as
placing food out for birds and mammals.</span></p><p class="western" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnKA9i7CDRBDpzkAb77A5eL6DjnCqm01zFFXHI8WX7Tex_wZv37x1c7rOqlcmjLr3PaufKTlHZsf7jnZadTbNGJqcMlZBCii7mBpd_V0YJPO3_sSuWrg4ovliaGbaF25iK3DjftwL3qrk/s1850/2478+Bloxworth+Snout+%2528Hypena+obsitalis%2529%252C+Newhaven+Fort+tunnels+%25233b.jpg.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1850" data-original-width="1825" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnKA9i7CDRBDpzkAb77A5eL6DjnCqm01zFFXHI8WX7Tex_wZv37x1c7rOqlcmjLr3PaufKTlHZsf7jnZadTbNGJqcMlZBCii7mBpd_V0YJPO3_sSuWrg4ovliaGbaF25iK3DjftwL3qrk/w395-h400/2478+Bloxworth+Snout+%2528Hypena+obsitalis%2529%252C+Newhaven+Fort+tunnels+%25233b.jpg.JPG" width="395" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bloxworth Snout (<i>Hypena obsitalis</i>) moths only enter a light state of hbernation and are more tolerant of low temperatures than many other species<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </span></p><p class="western" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="western" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">All photographs taken by Steven Teale in the Newhaven Fort tunnels in East Sussex.<br /></span></p>
Steven Tealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12354452846438858378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544864237910720787.post-40840383008349914372020-12-18T22:24:00.005+00:002020-12-18T23:31:20.539+00:00Additional photos and information to the Greenhavens article 'Admiring the Beeches at Duke's Walk in Seaford'.<h2 style="text-align: left;"></h2><p>There follows some additional information and photographs to accompany an article on the <a href="https://greenhavens.network/trees/admiring-the-beeches-on-the-dukes-walk-in-seaford/">Greenhavens Network blog</a><br /></p><p>Many of the larger
trees along Duke's Walk, which runs along the foot of Rookery Hill at Bishopstone, have buttressed bases to the trunks and exposed roots spreading
across the path, some covered by a filigree of small ivy growth,
others with large corded vines reaching up into the canopy. Lichens
glow in the murky light. </p><p>I have tried measuring the girth of the
largest trees, but it is a two- or three-person job. They straddle
the flint wall in places, have a halo of bramble and overlook the
water-filled channel. Not an ideal lone-working environment! The
girth of the trees has swelled not only beyond the collapsing flint
wall but also across the lines of barbed wire stock fence built to
replace the wall. Some of the trees are slowly absorbing the wire.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfwvGz3JKdDu0RUGs_un3XtUt1ABJBSVGyM6mqjNtJvrAuszBz48wp84XGKuv_qPfs18eCrdfdtds__mrO3FFxBUWYmGopJLu8uBuzPrLnfsc-mcXz92dHs6KUlN7D8V_uclsYfqbuIqQ/s1800/05+IMG_4044+-+Copy.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfwvGz3JKdDu0RUGs_un3XtUt1ABJBSVGyM6mqjNtJvrAuszBz48wp84XGKuv_qPfs18eCrdfdtds__mrO3FFxBUWYmGopJLu8uBuzPrLnfsc-mcXz92dHs6KUlN7D8V_uclsYfqbuIqQ/w426-h640/05+IMG_4044+-+Copy.JPG" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Many of the Duke's Walk beeches have buttressed roots and a filigree of ivy growing up the trunks.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijViyWrc3tJCwa-mqMwZuMTJ3q6SCMwHYXt_nT_8z9-8HuAYhu7KkzNarTataNhEQNicEoKSY-LVq9ue3_qtOXk44sck1c2i_Yc1Cz9P1kbOqmGBori6IjdwqcwSFC_9lFJnJdkM03nsw/s1800/06+IMG_4064+Beech+absorbing+barbed+wire+fence.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijViyWrc3tJCwa-mqMwZuMTJ3q6SCMwHYXt_nT_8z9-8HuAYhu7KkzNarTataNhEQNicEoKSY-LVq9ue3_qtOXk44sck1c2i_Yc1Cz9P1kbOqmGBori6IjdwqcwSFC_9lFJnJdkM03nsw/w426-h640/06+IMG_4064+Beech+absorbing+barbed+wire+fence.JPG" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beech trees have outlived a broken, collapsing flint wall, and the wire livestock fence that replaced the wall. Some of the beeches are absorbing the barbed wire into their boles.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">
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<h3 class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;">Sixty year-old graffiti<br />
</h3>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">One of the most
striking features of the elephantine beech trees is the bark, which is smooth like a living vellum. This feature inspired the modernist artist Paul Nash to depict them in
lithe, human form in some of his works. The Duke's beeches are
tatooed with the work of other artists: young lovers with pen-knives,
keen to share their ardour with all who pass. The oldest graffiti
has swelled with the growing trees. The earliest discernable date I found is
1961, but other carvings seem older than this. When I first
encountered the beeches about 35 or 40 years ago I was told by my
friend's father, who had brought us there, that his initials (BG!)
were somewhere on one of the trees. The tradition has been maintained
through the years: 1975, 1996, 2018. To some this is vandalism; to
others an artistic expression of love. </p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
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Ivy was used to symbolise femininity; Holly, masculinity. The name Holly is suggested by some to be a corruption of the word 'holy'. </span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">In folklore, Holly was apparently allowed to grow tall above the hedgeline in order to impede witches as they flew above them. For centuries at Christmas, garlands of holly and ivy have been collected to decorate the outside and inside of peoples' homes, often with ivy outside and holly within (Deck the Halls), but it was considered unlucky to do so before Christmas Eve, perhaps because cutting the boughs would allow witches to move more freely. Records describing the seasonal cutting of holly boughs date as far back as the 15th Century in the reign of Henry VI.</span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">Holly was historically a source of winter livestock fodder at a time when greenery was otherwise limited or absent. It is for this reason that holly was grown for pollarding* and these are reflected in British place names and peoples' names, such as Hollywood, Holt, Holm and, most importantly, Hollins. There are often no holly trees remaining at these places, but stands remain around the New Forest, Dorset, and perhaps most impressively at Staverton Thicks in Suffolk and the Stiperstones in Shropshire. </span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">I am not aware of many examples locally within the Greenhavens area, but there is an impressive Veteran Holly in the churchyard at Barcombe** and there is a area of dense Holly growth with the occasional mature tree at the rear of the old Union Workhouse at Newhaven, now part of the Meeching Down Local Nature Reserve in Newhaven. Is there any historical relation between the trees and the former workhouse? The land was part of the Union Workhouse from around 1835 and this is why locals still call Meeching Down 'The Union Field'.</span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; letter-spacing: normal; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcNwJTqK0mqfJNC9ZBYtp833zQ77jdR8UARCb2DSbYx9-zoxbP14MMu_KIwtZ4LkiuQGAAa8ea85ITpGfkhlLY9GkbQ_oulj8NmMmuzSqaYN64cDVDv5WYkls74MPcgXqZwyFjMskX4PU/s2048/IMG_4165+Holly+%2528Ilex+aquifolium%2529+berries%252C+Meeching+Down.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcNwJTqK0mqfJNC9ZBYtp833zQ77jdR8UARCb2DSbYx9-zoxbP14MMu_KIwtZ4LkiuQGAAa8ea85ITpGfkhlLY9GkbQ_oulj8NmMmuzSqaYN64cDVDv5WYkls74MPcgXqZwyFjMskX4PU/w400-h400/IMG_4165+Holly+%2528Ilex+aquifolium%2529+berries%252C+Meeching+Down.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Holly growing at The Union (Meeching Down Local Nature Reserve, Newhaven)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">Holly is an impressive member of Britain's native flora. It was one of the earliest trees to colonise the land after the last ice age when a land bridge still existed with continental Europe. It grows in a range of soil types at at a range of altitudes. It is susceptible to extremes of temperature and moisture (i.e. drought and waterlogging), but it is otherwise tolerant of exposure to wind, salt, shade, browsing by animals, air pollution and pollarding. </span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">Holly berries are toxic to humans, but a few can be taken as a purgative. Birds such as Mistle Thrushes Turdus viscivorus (a folk-name is 'hollin cock') and Robins Erithacus rubecula are so fond of them that they will defend individual bushes as a food resource during cold seasons. For a species which colonised Britain so early, its tough adaptations are so successful at deterring invertebrate larvae that only a few species are associated with it, the most conspicuous being the leaf-mining fly <i>Phytomyza ilicis</i>, which causes a distinctive yellow and red blotch-mine on its tough leaves. The caterpillar of the Holly Blue butterfly <i>Celastrina argiolus</i> feeds on the developing berries on female trees. This butterfly has two broods each year and the second brood eggs are laid on ivy, where the caterpillars feed on the flowers. The Holly Tortrix moth <i>Rhopobota neavana</i> also feeds as a caterpillar on silk-spun leaves and flowers of Holly and other fruit trees.</span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; letter-spacing: normal; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpRulC56w42trb8uVFC0NinGOBUmhJ8OPSOoV_lJz-3lizzvkiLPr_zkox4ENaRplDTwRPXOQH1wBmuG2rdeRqX27pnfBANMkodDWPeFQ9V18VVSo8D9Fe7narKp1uwLwqA0kOP50yFao/s2048/IMG_1365+Holly+%2528Ilex+aquifolium%2529+Phytomyza+ilicis+mine%252C+Meeching+Down.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpRulC56w42trb8uVFC0NinGOBUmhJ8OPSOoV_lJz-3lizzvkiLPr_zkox4ENaRplDTwRPXOQH1wBmuG2rdeRqX27pnfBANMkodDWPeFQ9V18VVSo8D9Fe7narKp1uwLwqA0kOP50yFao/s320/IMG_1365+Holly+%2528Ilex+aquifolium%2529+Phytomyza+ilicis+mine%252C+Meeching+Down.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Phytomyza ilicis</i><span> </span>larval fly mine on a holly leaf<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlBFyU9ujkIZ8_n9uDucIh8RI44JC9qtCvghg00q5-m66kkCA95-N9Ooe04DrL7pgyzeY5Uxh6COrkqmP4ASU4C739nuWx-pH2Y5rVAtDL5jk2WrymM_ThpnfXANlB0NCrchDCUDUjte8/s2048/IMG_1367+Holly+%2528Ilex+aquifolium%2529+Phytomyza+ilicis+mine+%2526+flowers%252C+Meeching+Down.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlBFyU9ujkIZ8_n9uDucIh8RI44JC9qtCvghg00q5-m66kkCA95-N9Ooe04DrL7pgyzeY5Uxh6COrkqmP4ASU4C739nuWx-pH2Y5rVAtDL5jk2WrymM_ThpnfXANlB0NCrchDCUDUjte8/s320/IMG_1367+Holly+%2528Ilex+aquifolium%2529+Phytomyza+ilicis+mine+%2526+flowers%252C+Meeching+Down.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span><i>Phytomyza ilicis</i><span> </span>larval fly mine on a holly leaf</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">One fascinating characteristic about Holly is that its leaves above the browseline are less spiny or spine-free. Growing spines on its leaves involves additional energy input, so it is possible that it evolved either to lose its spines above the level reached by deer or it evolved to grow spines below a certain level in response to browsing by deer. The bitter bark can be boiled to produce a sticky substance called birdlime, which was used historically to capture small birds, a link back to the Christmas carols.</span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><i>And the first tree in the greenwood, it was the Holly (the Sans Day Carol). </i></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">Happy Christmas everyone and may the yuletide log burn bright and warm in your hearths!</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt8qd-u_doRVhG0xGwsS698Mfl2_b04QAiuTeqXR2WtVB4As3Gw0WefXkfUf3Tv9LJK344ast46GqYE6nVGhBg6NIIzBosxZcAdaRuq5Lei4q1CV1X8zBVYcAnoh_4IFHCig61bLs5KPc/s2048/IMG_4175+Holly+%2528Ilex+aquifolium%2529+berries+above+the+browse+line%252C+Meeching+Down.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt8qd-u_doRVhG0xGwsS698Mfl2_b04QAiuTeqXR2WtVB4As3Gw0WefXkfUf3Tv9LJK344ast46GqYE6nVGhBg6NIIzBosxZcAdaRuq5Lei4q1CV1X8zBVYcAnoh_4IFHCig61bLs5KPc/w320-h400/IMG_4175+Holly+%2528Ilex+aquifolium%2529+berries+above+the+browse+line%252C+Meeching+Down.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Less spiny leaves above the browse line<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">References:</span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">* Pollarding is a form of tree management similar to coppicing in which growth is cut back periodically above the height of browsing animals such as deer. Trees are pollarded to provide winter fodder for livestock or wood products for basket-making and other traditional crafts.</span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">**</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Ancient Tree Inventory link to the Barcombe Holly:
</span></span><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="zxx"><u>https://ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk/tree-search/tree?treeid=185451&from=3523&v=1803279&ml=map&z=12&sp=24&nwLat=50.974961427664155&nwLng=-0.3158438474546976&seLat=50.82165609248365&seLng=0.3433358400453024#/</u></span></span></span></span></a></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
Steven Tealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12354452846438858378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544864237910720787.post-44470564666723667672020-12-18T04:30:00.004+00:002020-12-23T19:24:14.172+00:00The Holly bears the Crown: the seasonal significance of Holly 1/2<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The
Holly bears the Crown: the seasonal significance of Holly 1/2</b></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj11tkJgpLLlJcVz8Fa65VLGR_f0oA1OuCDcEODVLURr_dCPf4TsSkjwbQQBr9aenbUdy99BkYklqB1sf9wWvVe46t4EJdMk3vnZMO0ww2lDO2IhdQHnDqJQazmER-7AMU2ShSbidqnBu0/s2048/IMG_4158+Holly+%2528Ilex+aquifolium%2529+berries%252C+Meeching+Down.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1890" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj11tkJgpLLlJcVz8Fa65VLGR_f0oA1OuCDcEODVLURr_dCPf4TsSkjwbQQBr9aenbUdy99BkYklqB1sf9wWvVe46t4EJdMk3vnZMO0ww2lDO2IhdQHnDqJQazmER-7AMU2ShSbidqnBu0/w369-h400/IMG_4158+Holly+%2528Ilex+aquifolium%2529+berries%252C+Meeching+Down.JPG" width="369" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><br /><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Part 1 of 2: Culture</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Do you have a favourite Christmas Carol? At this time of year I dig out a favourite Christmas album called A Tapestry of Carols, performed by Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band. It is one of the most authentic collections of seasonal folk-carols I know of. Two favourite songs both have Holly Ilex aquifolium as their central theme: The Sans Day Carol and The Holly and the Ivy. They are examples of quite a few seasonal songs which use these evergreen plants as pagan and religious symbols.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The Holly and the Ivy was always a childhood favourite of mine, even if I didn't appreciate at the time how steeped it is in both Pagan and Christian tradition. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The first and last of the six stanzas are repeated:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The holly and the ivy / Now are both full grown / </i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Of all the trees that are in the wood / The holly bears the crown.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The lines are interpreted to mean that the Holly and Ivy Hedera helix, being evergreen, are the most prominent at around Midwinter, but that the holly and its value at this time is worthy of divine comparison, the crown being Christ's Crown of Thorns. The Holly is King of the Wood at Midwinter.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The middle four stanzas of the song compare the divine attributes of the holly and ivy with Jesus and the Virgin Mary: flower, berry, prickle and bark, which respectively represent purity, blood, the Crown of Thorns and the drink of wine mixed with gall, a bitter herb which Jesus was offered but refused as he was led to his crucifixion (Matthew 27:34).</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The chorus contains some interesting historical and natural references:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>O, the rising of the sun / The running of the deer / The playing of the merry groan / Sweet singing in the choir.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The rising of the sun refers to the rebirth and reappearance of the sun after Midwinter and heralds the new year.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The running of the deer refers to the tradition of hunting on the day following the Winter Solstice. Holly is a winter browsing plant for deer and, historically, people would certainly have felt the need to defend their 'hollins' from them. It might be an activity being described in this line of the verse. Thankfully, this hunt which at the height of its popularity evolved into the indiscriminate killing of any bird that could be taken, including songbirds, and which were then baked in pies, has been replaced by Christmas Bird Races, in which groups of enthusiasts travel across wide areas and compete to spot as many bird species as they can find. The Isle of Man's Christmas Bird Race might also be their modern version of the Manx 'wren hunt' - another cruel tradition.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The playing of the merry groan refers to a stringed 'renaissance instrument' that would have accompanied carol singers. Maddy Prior's rendition, as with most modern versions, replaces 'groan' with 'organ' (I'm not sure if the anagram of organ/groan is accidental or intentional), but it feels more clumsy than the original and doesn't rhyme or fit the metre. The original lyrics included 'groan' in the published broadside*.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Sweet singing in the choir. The pre-modern English word for choir would apparently have been pronounced 'keer', which of course rhymes with 'deer'. Who doesn't like getting together at this darkest time of year with like-minded souls for a satisfying sing-along? Wassail!</span></div><div><br /></div></span></span><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span>* A broadside was a large format print designed to be pasted to a wall
and used for public notices amongst other things and was popular in
the 18th and 19th Centuries. The first printed version of <i>The
Holly and the Ivy</i> was printed on a broadside around 1711,
although the exact date can only be estimated. Limited numbers of
broadsides were also produced for things such as public executions! </span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3j4iiLQASzBbcUKwck-FPkSkmqu9lTHftnZJmLi-P2GEB1JTAtm1MCybBArAhCgaA6uRZ5y8apByIJ8EjChQa4f93AHOG3Vpo84zInBjY6Pj8S4JxLCMaES0aDV0V36LbaHk8B9RIe7s/s926/The_Holly_Ivy-Douce+adds.+137%252863%2529-14991-crop.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="926" data-original-width="672" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3j4iiLQASzBbcUKwck-FPkSkmqu9lTHftnZJmLi-P2GEB1JTAtm1MCybBArAhCgaA6uRZ5y8apByIJ8EjChQa4f93AHOG3Vpo84zInBjY6Pj8S4JxLCMaES0aDV0V36LbaHk8B9RIe7s/w290-h400/The_Holly_Ivy-Douce+adds.+137%252863%2529-14991-crop.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Available <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/Images/The_Holly_Ivy-Douce%20adds.%20137(63)-14991-crop.jpg">here</a></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p>Steven Tealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12354452846438858378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544864237910720787.post-26859642663456824222020-11-19T22:36:00.003+00:002020-12-18T05:32:42.027+00:00Get into the woods! No matter what you expect to find there – go and see what you can find*<p> *from Sequoia Sonnets, 1919</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeieWS-W56HIeQgG58B5N3oyY5T9k6UBs06Ut2B-bjbVneZEaJzBVTdYeCkMX6FqstxFOevODceh5EvetqTGg7KLdIHp_TE2IrH-EUsJMPbdgDmI_3VTUCgz3cWycXABsP4hBKZwLl2E0/s2048/IMG_1287.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeieWS-W56HIeQgG58B5N3oyY5T9k6UBs06Ut2B-bjbVneZEaJzBVTdYeCkMX6FqstxFOevODceh5EvetqTGg7KLdIHp_TE2IrH-EUsJMPbdgDmI_3VTUCgz3cWycXABsP4hBKZwLl2E0/w400-h300/IMG_1287.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>I am no arboriculturalist, nor a botanist, not really a nemophile (visits to woods are a special occasion when one lives on the eastern Sussex Downs), but I might be a dendrophile. I have for many years appreciated trees and made pilgrimages to visit special individuals. I have been known to involuntarily say "Hello!" to certain astonishing individuals. It sometimes feels rude not to when invading their space. During the past couple of years I have started measuring their girth, observing their characteristics, noting ancient features, lichen and moss communities and cuckoo tree growth, along with all the usual stuff like what they are, where, when. Why? I'm a dendrophile! But also because there are lots of special trees out there that are not really taken much notice of. A special tree deserves to be recorded, even if this risks stealing something of its mystique, as John Fowles might accuse one of in his <i>The Tree</i> diatribe (a memoir that is worth reading if only for his description of an encounter with Wistman's Wood on Dartmoor: <i>it's "floor like a tilted emerald sea.</i>..".</p><p>Trees deserve to be recorded because they tend to be there - and then not. It's the <i>not </i>being there which often kindles the strongest emotions, and by that stage it's too late. So, yes, recording a tree sort of trespasses upon its mystique, but perhaps only for the recorder and administrator, the botanist and arboriculturalist, whom arguably experience this as an occupational hazard anyway. By recognising its ancient features or opening a door for it into the <a href="https://ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk/" target="_blank">Ancient Tree Inventory</a> (ATI), it might be protected for lots of other people to encounter who might otherwise not have enjoyed the opportunity. I wrote <i>might</i> be protected because there are plenty of examples where special trees, whether Notable, Veteran or Ancient, trees with TPOs, trees with a community awareness or even a community of defenders are ripped from us, usually by developers who see an obstacle and not a landscape feature. Two recent examples are the <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/property-tycoon-who-180-year-20587351" target="_blank">Penllergaer Giant Redwood</a> in Swansea and the Cubbington Pear in Warwickshire (see <a href="https://www.treeoftheyear.org/Previous-Years/2016/Hrusen-z-Cubbingtonu?lang=en-US" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/aug/17/tree-of-the-week-the-beloved-250-year-old-wild-pear-being-cut-down-for-hs2" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/press-centre/2020/10/hs2-fells-cubbington-pear/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-54642267" target="_blank">here</a>). That final news story saddens me such a lot because it demonstrates how people look at a tree and see only the above-ground bit and fail to recognise the mycorrhizal networks, the community of dependent species of bacteria, fungi, lichens, mosses, vascular plants, invertebrates, birds, mammals and everything else that an established tree harbours. Scions and sports need to establish themselves before they even approach the value in life that the Cubbington Pear supported. Grrr. But at least a measured, verified tree is <i>known</i>.</p><p>The ATI lists only two special trees in Newhaven and one of these is a 'lost' tree: a magnificent Huntingdon Elm <i>Ulmus x hollandica</i>, felled from its place at Grays School on Western Road, apparently, due to Dutch Elm Disease shortly before the vacant school was redeveloped into the modern houses which now stand there. I mourned the loss of this tree, which was mature when I attended Grays School between 1975-78. The other is an unspecified elm growing on private land in the 'old town' area, near Church Hill. I felt that two trees, even in a relatively tree-less area of the South Downs, was not representative enough of what is an historic town with historic places. Surely there must be more? This question has inspired me to establish whether there are more out there. </p><p>Here are some of the special trees I have since found around Newhaven and the surrounding district, some of which I hope will be accepted into the ATI...</p><p></p><p><u>Beeches <i>Fagus sylvatica</i>, Duke's Walk, Bishopstone</u></p><p>A row of six healthy, mature trees interspersed with diseased Wych Elm <i>Ulmus glabra</i>, possibly planted c.mid-18th C by the Duke of Newcastle (or descendants of the originals). Not yet measured (I need a helper or two).<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvubE16tpsn9DLZnqo5Mhq2QY9OEBYIfpRrH6f-kQhDxO82eKmth237U3tBweTfNXzkR8rBK2JEewLepYSf5uUJSQKhWQwZspZfuIP6QoZW_WyjJnx4o3yBBCDhvCyK3m2pv3s7FdGSJU/s2048/IMG_4064.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvubE16tpsn9DLZnqo5Mhq2QY9OEBYIfpRrH6f-kQhDxO82eKmth237U3tBweTfNXzkR8rBK2JEewLepYSf5uUJSQKhWQwZspZfuIP6QoZW_WyjJnx4o3yBBCDhvCyK3m2pv3s7FdGSJU/w266-h400/IMG_4064.JPG" title="One of six of the Duke's Walk Beech trees" width="266" /></a></div><br /><p><u>Walnuts <i>Juglans regia</i>, grounds of the former Downs Hospital, Church Hill, Newhaven.</u></p><p>From the left in the photo below:</p><p>Tree 1: girth 2.97m @ 0.94m below fork in bole; no obvious decay noted and only a few lichens. A strong, healthy, mature tree.</p><p>Tree 2: girth 2.95m @ 0.40m below 3-way split in bole; decay, hollowing, seepages, but few lichens. <br /></p><p>Tree 3: girth 1.86m @ 0.62m below a rot-hole; apparently dead, standing, extensive decay, hollow, few lichens.</p><p>Tree 4: girth 2.43m @ 0.70m below a swelling and fork in bole; rot-hole; 50% decay, hollow, few lichens</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyHA71oM13J71i3txLtrReMM8ovkYGkk1Z5FEn63w4IPUWg16IAjc-Kwmn3q0kkQCd4L2lhLMqVjzMjIrZxImYA4YIV2lFsMEVTJ2Ra32WYjPKX0o4raF5gIUVFsdbddWIMVaEhP97DuI/s2048/IMG_1154a+Four+Walnut+%2528Juglans+regia%2529+trees+at+Hill+Rise%252C+Church+Hill%252C+Newhaven+%2528TQ441010%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1335" data-original-width="2048" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyHA71oM13J71i3txLtrReMM8ovkYGkk1Z5FEn63w4IPUWg16IAjc-Kwmn3q0kkQCd4L2lhLMqVjzMjIrZxImYA4YIV2lFsMEVTJ2Ra32WYjPKX0o4raF5gIUVFsdbddWIMVaEhP97DuI/w400-h261/IMG_1154a+Four+Walnut+%2528Juglans+regia%2529+trees+at+Hill+Rise%252C+Church+Hill%252C+Newhaven+%2528TQ441010%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><u>Wild Cherry <i>Prunus arvium</i>, Meeching Down, Newhaven.</u></p><p>Fallen (suggest in Oct 1987), alive. Diameter approx 0.50m, approx 1.5m above root just beyond a wound (est. girth 1.55m).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgreBuE-4IQlaLLoYXKMbwymmp8kSee1hXhHL_fW1cttasTpU3PDOeT2sKZvNcCw53NwQMPj2NpJRY_AGKCw38aKpmYhiVu1S37Bv3E2CSmDj79BsYlsJuPI_HNayhQzzqf3AWSxNsI85k/s2048/IMG_1190.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgreBuE-4IQlaLLoYXKMbwymmp8kSee1hXhHL_fW1cttasTpU3PDOeT2sKZvNcCw53NwQMPj2NpJRY_AGKCw38aKpmYhiVu1S37Bv3E2CSmDj79BsYlsJuPI_HNayhQzzqf3AWSxNsI85k/w400-h300/IMG_1190.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p> </p><p><u>English Elms <i>Ulmus procera</i>, Neills Close, Newhaven.</u></p><p>Four mature elms in apparent good health. A fifth was felled, presumably due to DED, some years ago.</p><p>Tree 1 (top photo): girth: 1.74m @ 1.50m. Maiden. Lichens.</p><p>Tree 2 (bottom photo, centre): girth: 1.78m @ 1.50m. Maiden. Lichens.<br /></p><p>Tree 3 (bottom photo, left): girth: 2.20m @ 0.90m below low branches. Maiden. Lichens.<br /></p><p>Tree 4 (bottom photo, right): girth: 1.70m @ 1.50m. Maiden. 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An unusual, uncommonly mature oak growing in the town, possibly planted around the time the house was built (c.1810 or earlier).</p><p>Girth 2.48m @ 1.50m high. Maiden. Growing in a clay/sand outcrop.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkkzNd2zV1Q_G-mLtV9dKgqOwOwvPBCiuG84S4npxzQCY7gf2q3Nx6PkyIoSZyIkB145Atb7JSeTOuEyClkIeQFM1t51kSOaKcfgFlBD3kV7Y2DtZUjqQkHeT8fLwr-sWLVp8wRbYy0ao/s2048/IMG_1182.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkkzNd2zV1Q_G-mLtV9dKgqOwOwvPBCiuG84S4npxzQCY7gf2q3Nx6PkyIoSZyIkB145Atb7JSeTOuEyClkIeQFM1t51kSOaKcfgFlBD3kV7Y2DtZUjqQkHeT8fLwr-sWLVp8wRbYy0ao/w300-h400/IMG_1182.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><u>Crack Willow <i>Salix fragilis</i>, wet meadows, Bishopstone (nr. former site of Bishopstone Place).</u></p><p>Girth 3.54m @ 1.50m, below a burr on the trunk. Standing, alive, significant decay, deadwood on ground, ground level suggestion of collapsed former bole extent. Wasp-infested!<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsqSvxWq-5yZoayWJCVrMBp3f7P_hjnpY51I0fjj2p2rfuGi5PKM2ge6VGmn3Pg8GtROiN4KPJIU1MkyOJc62PG5GS3MxjPjlZQUtue68TZBH8Hb1u59H7gLvFyjzdX2ceCKYv9ZlyB1w/s2048/20201030_120454+Presumed+Crack+Willow+%2528Salix+fragilis%2529%252C+one+of+two+at+Bishopstone+wet+meadows+%2528TQ47040091%2529%253B+not+measured+due+to+resident+wasp+colony%2521%253B+showing+ancient+features+-+hollow+with+dead+wood+on+ground.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsqSvxWq-5yZoayWJCVrMBp3f7P_hjnpY51I0fjj2p2rfuGi5PKM2ge6VGmn3Pg8GtROiN4KPJIU1MkyOJc62PG5GS3MxjPjlZQUtue68TZBH8Hb1u59H7gLvFyjzdX2ceCKYv9ZlyB1w/w400-h225/20201030_120454+Presumed+Crack+Willow+%2528Salix+fragilis%2529%252C+one+of+two+at+Bishopstone+wet+meadows+%2528TQ47040091%2529%253B+not+measured+due+to+resident+wasp+colony%2521%253B+showing+ancient+features+-+hollow+with+dead+wood+on+ground.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJh5gNHJFH9MNzKZ5PRyNAOAGeXLZEMUbZFvvf0sK3jkW71B0E2sLy-WxX76CTm9MY8FEiN8mHmRWaIz-ujfNHCCZMB22xTVm8JjQjmnrZyZgxcl69y5CsoJ8Z_Iwbf9iIQoaTYWTDXd0/s2048/20201030_120435+Presumed+Crack+Willow+%2528Salix+fragilis%2529%252C+one+of+two+at+Bishopstone+wet+meadows+%2528TQ47040091%2529%253B+not+measured+due+to+resident+wasp+colony%2521%253B+showing+ancient+features+-+hollow+with+dead+wood+on+ground.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJh5gNHJFH9MNzKZ5PRyNAOAGeXLZEMUbZFvvf0sK3jkW71B0E2sLy-WxX76CTm9MY8FEiN8mHmRWaIz-ujfNHCCZMB22xTVm8JjQjmnrZyZgxcl69y5CsoJ8Z_Iwbf9iIQoaTYWTDXd0/w225-h400/20201030_120435+Presumed+Crack+Willow+%2528Salix+fragilis%2529%252C+one+of+two+at+Bishopstone+wet+meadows+%2528TQ47040091%2529%253B+not+measured+due+to+resident+wasp+colony%2521%253B+showing+ancient+features+-+hollow+with+dead+wood+on+ground.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><p><u>Elders <i>Sambucus nigra</i>, Ouse Estuary Nature Reserve.</u> </p><p>Two mature trees along southern boundary path. </p><p>Tree 1: girth = 1.30m measured at 0.3m height (beneath a low fork in the trunk).</p><p>Tree 2: girth = 1.11m, measured at 1.10m trunk height (single trunk with epicormic growth from ground);</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjggMJSKfGg2dSAB3HZaUsEDi0Trs5UmWBnOJTtMJFKPQ6oyZxkhMgSwfntvSDwPsXlDSHADmgTHCzLQn-daLpr3fPyQYoazBD2yWEznpm-6f_Sv-zxf5HCUdX2QQi5fwndVwZHOKz4eP4/s2048/20201026_133107.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjggMJSKfGg2dSAB3HZaUsEDi0Trs5UmWBnOJTtMJFKPQ6oyZxkhMgSwfntvSDwPsXlDSHADmgTHCzLQn-daLpr3fPyQYoazBD2yWEznpm-6f_Sv-zxf5HCUdX2QQi5fwndVwZHOKz4eP4/s320/20201026_133107.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCgOQ_lclYOgkAy3eA1uFRTkcSQvhczgYvwtVIruUBOjqYDb37JgJg15ea7W-kqOGvtA9lqsHD3nmG0BcqSsqYcFlk4fR-Gm5IKAsQFy8ktGgyHgwnt53ZMLWKJ5YHNXkydDScJ6k4-8w/s2048/20201026_133712.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCgOQ_lclYOgkAy3eA1uFRTkcSQvhczgYvwtVIruUBOjqYDb37JgJg15ea7W-kqOGvtA9lqsHD3nmG0BcqSsqYcFlk4fR-Gm5IKAsQFy8ktGgyHgwnt53ZMLWKJ5YHNXkydDScJ6k4-8w/s320/20201026_133712.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><u>Hawthorn <i>Crataegus monogyna</i>, Bollens Bush</u></p><p>A very large specimen with large, strong boughs. Top of wood by steps leading to open heathland.</p><p>Girth = 3.06m @ 66cm high, beneath fork in bole. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6HMflElCf8ki-QQBy20oiVSl6m6tr7nvtIIJKR3UCz4KQwbutsPbb4fi-KLH_-G-APaB2uw9qh826erN5MJSWxrj5ECeExA7YmCrYxoE2tBDPg4qQAkN152RATzSYtwjgf7eWRaIkpM8/s2048/IMG_0261+Hawthorn+%2528Crataegus+monogyna%2529%252C+Bollen%2527s+Bush.+Girth+%253D+306cm+%254066cm+high+%252302.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6HMflElCf8ki-QQBy20oiVSl6m6tr7nvtIIJKR3UCz4KQwbutsPbb4fi-KLH_-G-APaB2uw9qh826erN5MJSWxrj5ECeExA7YmCrYxoE2tBDPg4qQAkN152RATzSYtwjgf7eWRaIkpM8/s320/IMG_0261+Hawthorn+%2528Crataegus+monogyna%2529%252C+Bollen%2527s+Bush.+Girth+%253D+306cm+%254066cm+high+%252302.JPG" /></a></div><br /><p>Many of these trees have been entered onto the Ancient Tree Inventory and await verification. The search around Newhaven continues.<br /></p><p><br /></p>Steven Tealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12354452846438858378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544864237910720787.post-88008779470384142732020-04-28T23:14:00.001+01:002020-04-28T23:29:14.599+01:00Late April field notes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thank goodness that the weather's been so nice during the Covid-19 lockdown. Things could have been much less relaxed. This is the first
year I remember in which the first four weeks of the transect-walking
season (otherwise known as the one hour daily exercise period) have been 100% sunshine. The perfect weather we've enjoyed
since around mid-March is appreciated all the more because of the
fresh memory of the miserable, wet winter we endured and because of
the eventual break in the weather that we all know would eventually
come; just as the beauty of the night sky is appreciated more by the
memory of an overcast sky.
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Knowing that the good
weather was due to break on Monday night, I made a point of enjoying
the last good evening for a while by taking a late walk when I was
hopeful I would have the Bishopstone downs to myself. I did. The previous
evening the sky was clear and the crescent moon, three days old, was
near Venus. It was a stunning sight; one I could never tire of.
Monday evening had a mackerel sky which faded to salmon pink as the
sun sank; the Moon and Venus flashed in and out through the gaps. The
air was still and the scent of flowers hung in the air, thick and
sweet. I think people experience smells slightly differently from
each other, in the same way we seem to see colours in slightly
different hues. With cow parsley I sense a slight camphor odour, not
as strongly as I do with Alexanders earlier in the season, but it is
there faintly. As I walked along the silent paths in the gloaming,
alternate smells of camphor and sickly sweet hawthorn overwhelmed the
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We walked up to the top
of Mount Pleasant and via Norton Hill and Rookery Hill to the road at
Bishopstone. I hoped to see the barn owl or a tawny owl, but the
silhouettes were mostly crows and rooks. A cuckoo flashed out of the
woodland edge at the top of Bishopstone Wood, my first of the season.
I had heard it call a few minutes before and the dogs must have
flashed it up. A little further on I saw what I thought might be a
roe deer – not the first I have seen in the area – but it was too
dim to make an ID with any degree of confidence. Whatever is was
disappeared along a well-worn track and into the trees. I'll check it
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In the gloaming I'm
struck by how things which are pale in colour tend to glow.
Umbellifers and hawthorn blossom framed the fields and, amongst the
grass, thousands of dandelion clocks lit up dimly like tiny lamps. I
wouldn't have appreciated their number during the daylight and I love
it that they became more obvious in the in-between light of the dusk.
I learnt the other day that our word dandelion is taken from the
French <i>dents de lion</i>, or lion's teeth, a description of the
leaves. I wonder if the Normans brought the name over with them? </div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Sunday
afternoon allowed a long, leisurely ramble over the downs between
South Heighton and Beddingham. The lockdown doesn't allow such long
walks as I'd like, but I was able to make the most of the sun and
light breeze. I climbed the hill above Page's Barn with the hope of
finding some oak eggar caterpillars on the bramble between the path
and fenceline, but none were seen. I counted 64 along the same
stretch in 2014, but annual searches since have turned up nothing,
which is disappointing. I did see my first painted lady of the season
and possibly also my first small heath, but this disppeared before I
could tell for certain. A little further along at Snap Hill I saw
another red kite, bringing my 2020 tally to five – all in the
Newhaven area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">The garden continues to delight. I noticed a number of yellow-backed clothes moth (<i>Monopis obviella</i>), carrion moth (<i>Monopis weaverella</i>), white-shouldered house-moth (<i>Endrosis sarcitrella</i>) and narrow-winged grey (<i>Eudonia angustea</i>) flying around the compost heap in the still air on Monday evening. I've found the <i>Monopis </i>species and <i>sarcitrella </i>to be associated with dried grass clippings in the past. More
firsts have turned up in the moth trap: I have now recorded eleven
species this month which I had never previously seen in April and newly-emergent species are appearing for the first time this year most nights now. The
good weather has undoubtedly brought forward many emergence times,
but the general trend of climate change must also be at play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">With
a couple of days and nights still left in the month it is clear that
this April has been one of the best for butterflies and moths. I've
recorded 88 species and 1011 individuals so far. Only April 2014 has
been better. Many species have been above both my five year and ten
year average. I'll try and find time to write it up in more detail
after the month end.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Painted Lady (<i>Vanessa cardui</i>) - my first for the season</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wall (<i>Lasiommata megera</i>) have been seen in good numbers this April</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Path through Denton Wood</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wych Elms in flower and a gap in the canopy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Page's Barn and the path to Beddingham</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grey Pug (<i>Eupithecia subfusca</i>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turnip (<i>Agrotis segetum</i>) - fresh but missing an antenna</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yellow-backed Clothes-moth (<i>Monopis obviella</i>)</td></tr>
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Steven Tealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12354452846438858378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544864237910720787.post-67962558810916574842020-04-28T21:44:00.004+01:002020-12-31T10:43:16.743+00:00The Striped Summer Chafer (Rhizotrogus aestivus) - first UK record?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Things at home have
become very interesting. It seems that I recorded a beetle that is
new to the UK – or perhaps not. It is <i>Rhizotrogus aestivus</i>
or the June Chafer. I've found it in my moth trap on three occasions
recently: the 20<sup>th</sup>, 25<sup>th</sup> and 27<sup>th</sup>.
I'm ashamed to admit that I've been wrongly assuming it was summer
chafer (<i>Amphimallon solstitiale</i>) for at least two years,
possibly longer, and not taking that much notice of it. A friend from
the Friends of Castle Hill LNR photographed one at Fort Road on 30<sup>th</sup>
April last year and, when asked if I knew what it was, I wrongly said it was
summer chafer again. I didn't photograph any of those found in my
moth trap. It was only after the first of this year's turned up that
I began to question myself. The summer chafer flies from July, which
made it far too early. This was the individual I described in a
recent blog post that escaped. It was only when the second individual
turned up on 25<sup>th</sup> that I was able to take a closer look
and realise that it was <i>Rhizotrogus aestivus.</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
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<span style="font-style: normal;">A
quick search of the NBN Atlas suggested there were no UK records and
I began to feel some excitement. I wrote to Bob Foreman at the Sussex
Biodiversity Record Centre, who confirmed there are no Sussex
records. Bob wrote to Peter Hodge, who was sceptical (quite right
too). I wrote to Graeme Lyons, who forwarded the details to Darren
Mann, the national specialist. This was getting quite serious. Darren
advised that he would need to see a male to confirm the ID, but he
seemed confident from the photo that it was the right ID and a beetle
that is new to the UK fauna. The trouble is that I had released the
chafer after making the ID [yes, I know, I'm a rubbish entomologist],
so I had to wait and see if another turned up, which it did on 27</span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;">.
I'm now waiting for further instruction. </span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Another exciting aspect of this discovery is that, assuming it is accepted as correct, when the record makes its way into the national coleopterists' consciousness, further records could be turned up and people can get out to search for it. I find it fascinating though that new records often turn up at ports such as Newhaven. The Mediterranean Oil Beetle is another local example, along with amongst other speceis the elegant topshell <i>Trochoidea elegans</i> and the wasp spider <i>Argiope bruennichi</i>.</span>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">As
a postscript, because I didn't do a proper job of recording the
chafer in the past, the first sighting that we can make a proper
record from is the one that my friend Sue photographed on 30</span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;">
April last year. Hopefully I can include my name in the record as the
determiner, but it is a cautionary tale and a lesson learned.</span></div>
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Steven Tealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12354452846438858378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544864237910720787.post-8173368586949857302020-04-23T18:10:00.000+01:002020-04-23T18:12:54.526+01:00Sociable Distance and other inspirations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Still the perfect
weather helps to relieve the stresses of the lockdown confinement,
slightly warmer and less breezy today with a lighter wind from the
south instead of the easterly which has been dominating in recent
weeks like a hair-dryer set to cool. Interestingly, the easterly
breeze we often get, which can last for several days unabated, a bit
like the <i>Mistral</i>, always seems to blow at a steady pace and
without the blustery nature of the prevailing south-westerlies. This
effect is especially felt along the ridge at the top of Mount
Pleasant overlooking the waterworks at Poverty Bottom.</div>
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Red Admiral and Holly
Blue sightings have been growing in number at home in the garden.
Large Whites blouse their way across from garden to garden and Small
Whites flutter through in decent numbers. Brimstones and Small
Tortoiseshells seem scarce, although most of my Brimstones are
usually seen abroad north of the downs along Wealden tracks that I'm
not visiting so often this year.</div>
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The first, anticipated,
sight of <i>Cetonia aurata</i> (Rose Chafer) has now been made in the
garden, the metallic green elytra being quite conspicuous on the
white <i>Choisya</i> blossoms. There were two today on it. It was a
treat to see one a few years ago (perhaps less so for gardeners), but
they seem to have established themselves so well in our area in
recent years that they are a daily occurrence these days. The <i>Choisya</i>
itself has spread a fair amount since last year when I thought it was
a little stunted. The scent of the flowers is delicious and fills the
garden, having taken over from the Daphne as if they had rehearsed
it. Amanda wants to cut it back. Not on my watch.</div>
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I made a couple of bee
hotels from baked bean tins for the garden before breakfast. Funny
how one expects an instant uptake by bees – I've been hovering
expectantly at times throughout the day without noticing any
interest. Jack-by-the-hedge was found growing by the pond; I think
this is a first record for the garden. Ash leaves are now unfurling
on the big tree, some way behind in progress from the expanding palms
of sycamore. The ash has a lot of trunks, all with a filigree of
climbing ivy. The tree must have been coppiced on several occasions
before being left long enough to outgrow the gardener's saw. My moth
trap lights it up at night like a feature tree.</div>
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Recent nights with the
moth trap have seen the first appearance of Green Carpet and only my
second ever April record of Coxcomb Prominent, which plays dead in
the hand like a flake of wood. Brimstone Moth, Muslin, Angle Shades
and Shuttle-shaped Dart are becoming slightly more numerous; Brindled
Beauty and the <i>Orthosias</i> are dwindling slowly, but after an
above-average season. Overall numbers are quite low, but should begin
increasing again soon.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1182" data-original-width="900" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8R5l5Z61RrNuv2gHmpiEDW9URQ_AgS1bvvAHLacCivE5OT1_-AVe6QjUBubav6W3SUNkFeDL4mrmsGCBT33dhpLdJq8VIsolHNkvROubnk2GCBaWI1tyYWdWORj2QvrfWIUMjjyGxyDU/w305-h400/103.+Coxcomb+Prominent+%2528Ptilodon+capucina%252C+2008%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="305" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coxcomb Prominent (<i>Ptilodon capucina</i>)</td></tr>
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I did my transect walk
at lunchtime today, with the dogs. I had high hopes, which came to
little. Of the 52 butterflies seen, 39 were Small White which were
loitering with intent around the oilseed rape, with a nice male
Orange-tip, two Large Whites, seven Peacock, only a single Small
Tortoiseshell,and two Nettle-tap moths making up the numbers on what
was otherwise a quiet and disappointing day. The day had a siesta
feel to it in the sun and slack winds; perhaps I should do the walk
earlier or later?</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br />
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
The daily walk is a
valuable distraction and I'd struggle through the lock-down without
it, but each day I look across to Castle Hill LNR on the far side of
the river valley and miss it more. I've been thinking of different
ruses to help justify visiting and I think I've come up with a
solution: a grass-roots walking movement designed to encourage people
out for guided daily exercise (walks though – none of that
pseudo-army boot camp business) at local nature reserves for one hour
each day, walking two or more metres apart from the next person.
Participants could bring two metre sticks with them, with or without
sharpened points, to help keep other folk at bay. I have even come up
with a snazzy name for it: <i>Sociable Distance</i><span style="font-style: normal;">.
The name might be better than the idea itself. Potential sticking
points include:</span></div>
<ul>
<li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">engaging
in an activity which might not fall within the spirit of the
lock-down restrictions;</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">persuading
Lewes District Council to consent to the use of the open space for
an activity which might not fall within the spirit of the lock-down
restrictions;</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">persuading
my employer to agree to the time off work.</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">There
are probably more sticking point to discover during this uniquely
mendicant time.</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Having the idea in the
first place suggested to me that even I am beginning to crave social
interaction with other humans. The spring moth lull must be getting
to me.</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br />
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Another
lockdown-inspired idea occurred to me shortly afterwards, which would
involve using pegs and string to mark out 2m squares at open spaces
for people to enjoy wildlife whilst social distancing. <i>The World
Between us </i><span style="font-style: normal;">doesn't sound as
snappy a title as </span><i>Sociable Distance</i><span style="font-style: normal;">,
so more work might be required and I am open to suggestions – and
any suggestions received would demonstrate that I'm not the only
person who reads this blog! A sticking point: would the Council agree
to encourage people out to its nature reserves at the moment? I'm not
sure I would.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-cNSYddFHYv2Aj0Py9cvoyomoatDCcmOEEoAAkr2fkWJRMQ21tA7f_6F0SHcJxZpsAjZaeQ0Czh8tg0_8kZaT7XceSJzMv3HAcubT5y2EqBqo0SOelILsTVNf_r1DbSBw4XIoNkb1NzI/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2133" data-original-width="3504" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-cNSYddFHYv2Aj0Py9cvoyomoatDCcmOEEoAAkr2fkWJRMQ21tA7f_6F0SHcJxZpsAjZaeQ0Czh8tg0_8kZaT7XceSJzMv3HAcubT5y2EqBqo0SOelILsTVNf_r1DbSBw4XIoNkb1NzI/w400-h244/29.+Spring+2007+at+Poverty+Bottom+%255B18.04.07%255D+007.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Where the east wind blows - the ridge above Poverty Bottom</td></tr>
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Steven Tealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12354452846438858378noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544864237910720787.post-51184761349246541942020-04-21T19:48:00.000+01:002020-04-21T19:51:49.983+01:00More lockdown delights<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
It's incredible how the
natural world is just carrying on amidst all this Covid-19 lockdown
business. A swarm of flies has been ignoring the two metre social
distancing thingy, dancing around in the air above our rosemary in
the back garden. There seemed to be more there today, so word is
obviously getting around. I think they're lesser house flies, which
must mean they are preparing an onslaught on the District's poultry
houses.</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Moths seem to be in
their Spring lull since the <i>Orthosias</i> declined to a handful a
night, but we did get a nice Powdered Quaker in the trap last night
and I found a bonus Angle Shades on a nettle during my morning stroll
around the garden, mug of tea in hand. I also found in the trap this
morning a nice little chafer which I think was a summer chafer, but
it seems far too early for this (it is named <i>solstitiale</i> after all) and was perhaps less hairy than the
images in my book. It might be something else. It fell on the grass and melted away before I
could photograph it, so I will have to hope for another before attempting an ID. Still no Rose Chafers seen in the garden, despite the <i>Choisya
</i>being in near full bloom. I had hoped they might appear slightly
earlier due to the good weather.</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
We took a lunchtime
walk. The stockpiled brash on Norton Hill, where we heard a hedgehog
at dusk a couple of days ago, today had a swarm of bees enjoying the
shelter it afforded from the strong easterly breeze. They were too
busy and quick to be identified, but I think they were a <i>Lasioglossum</i>
species of some sort. To the south we looked longingly at Castle Hill
LNR, which is mostly out of bounds during the present lockdown.</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
The butterfly season
appears suddenly to have moved on and looks promising for the next six
weeks or so, providing the weather stays good. We saw our first Small Copper yesterday; today there was
a fair amount of activity in the sheltered places. We saw Large
Whites (2), Small Whites (9), Red Admirals (4), Small Tortoiseshells
(2), Commas (2), a Holly Blue, some Nettle-tap moths which were
fizzing around the herbage, quite a few Dock Bugs (30), Gooden's
Nomad Bee and our first dragonfly of the season: a female Large Red
Damselfly, which I managed to take a shaky snap of. </div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Swallows seem to
be arriving in greater numbers. We've been seeing odd ones for about a
month, but a small group of five were swooping around the hedge line
on our way back home. Plenty of humans were out and about too – far
more than usual since the lockdown was imposed but, unlike the flies,
they were at least maintaining an appropriate distance.</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0jZ9vYsCwKWqmBjkwIWqJj3BpDJClTfae6k6nOFUL5Uyjq2y5-h34aLxqdm0NsdaLHHQiSAAjWp-zPZNIEV5C4Dyb9OaDlFBOH9QqxhHXHyisqtWfPAb2C8iorHLu4EyFLz6pobDwVEg/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0jZ9vYsCwKWqmBjkwIWqJj3BpDJClTfae6k6nOFUL5Uyjq2y5-h34aLxqdm0NsdaLHHQiSAAjWp-zPZNIEV5C4Dyb9OaDlFBOH9QqxhHXHyisqtWfPAb2C8iorHLu4EyFLz6pobDwVEg/w400-h266/IMG_3665+Port+development+1.JPG" title="Castle Hill LNR from Norton Hill" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Castle Hill LNR from Norton Hill</td></tr>
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<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1bNccL2zKe-FS9i_jBPJSZNu9yRYUS9fywlcoSkw3hB_oRzfDG8aijcNoaTrDE61fsI_qZArsqB5JtoAmnh8xTXpLG0TP1KPqDpR9ER9M1AND0Gp2eI2l3nEeSMGrZiDIZQMYY18oLsk/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1bNccL2zKe-FS9i_jBPJSZNu9yRYUS9fywlcoSkw3hB_oRzfDG8aijcNoaTrDE61fsI_qZArsqB5JtoAmnh8xTXpLG0TP1KPqDpR9ER9M1AND0Gp2eI2l3nEeSMGrZiDIZQMYY18oLsk/w400-h266/IMG_3669+Large+Red+Damselfly+%2528Pyrrhosoma+nymphula%2529+female%252C+Rookery+Hill+TQ466011.JPG" title="Female Large Red Damselfy (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) at Rookery Hill" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Female Large Red Damselfy (<i>Pyrrhosoma nymphula</i>) at Rookery Hill</td></tr>
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<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</div>
</div>
Steven Tealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12354452846438858378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544864237910720787.post-19583439998967503312020-04-20T11:16:00.000+01:002020-04-21T08:02:55.463+01:00Lockdown Delights 3/3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<h4 align="LEFT" class="western" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.35cm; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Extra
domum</i></span></span></h4>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;">The
lockdown must have played havoc with my naturalist friends’
fieldwork and surveys. Again, I have been untouched by this and am
fortunate that my regular weekly butterfly transect starts around the
corner from home. I’ve been able to incorporate the first few weeks
of the transect walking season into my daily exercise. Orange-tip,
Large and Small Whites, Brimstone, Speckled Wood, Wall, Red
Admiral, Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell, Comma and Holly Blue have been
seen, as well as an Emperor Moth, a Hummingbird Hawk-moth, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;">a
few dark-edged bee-fly (<i>Bombylius major</i>)</span></span> and the best
numbers to date of dotted bee-fly (<i>Bombylius discolour</i>). </span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 115%;">
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPc_z-69_4YfxSckgrcKww7v37UVQcERUXf1kFTNueF2QbDBrJFG4SZMxgd6Qn3_NAYUM-EklVogMQ2SvI0TsCm3_Exs2AOK4vZ4gna0HRfIrhm-yZSzwd_UNxg4qQ1vRiEUenTCDWByk/s1600/IMG_0752.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="899" data-original-width="1600" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPc_z-69_4YfxSckgrcKww7v37UVQcERUXf1kFTNueF2QbDBrJFG4SZMxgd6Qn3_NAYUM-EklVogMQ2SvI0TsCm3_Exs2AOK4vZ4gna0HRfIrhm-yZSzwd_UNxg4qQ1vRiEUenTCDWByk/s320/IMG_0752.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunset from Norton Hill</td></tr>
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<div class="western" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Evening
walks have been especially well rewarded because almost everyone is
at home. The wet meadows by the woodland edge at Bishopstone have
been silent and empty. I snuck in a couple of nights ago as quietly
as possible to see if a barn owl I have seen locally a couple of
times might be roosting there. Sure enough, as I neared the beech trees along Duke’s Walk, a barn
owl emerged from the tree line, silently. My dog Leo and I sat
perfectly still and watched until it flew out of sight. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Slipping
out of the wet meadow and into the wood at dusk, we walked
beneath the rookery without being noticed by the rooks and jackdaws
above. The ground, strewn with dropped nesting material, was softened
by rain during Friday night's thunderstorm. Being able to walk more
or less silently up the woodland path allowed me to listen into a
wider range of the rooks' and jackdaws' vocabulary: confiding clicks, whines
and screeches instead of the usual alarm calls. The woodland path has
ramsoms growing out of a patch of winter heliotrope at the bottom of
the path, a small patch of native bluebell halfway up and, near the
top, a hybrid native and Spanish bluebell.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">After emerging
from the wood onto the hill above Norton the familiar grunts and snuffles of a hedgehog were heard from a pile of vegetation which was stockpiled
last June by the farmer. Earlier in the Spring I watched a Peacock
emerge from its hibernaculum in the same pile.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This
is a bizarre, unique time we find ourselves living through; a time in
which love and respect have taken on new meaning and how the way we
conduct ourselves around others makes the difference between health
and illness, life and death. Our responsibility to loved ones and to
people we might never even meet is critically important. The pace of life
has slowed, our worlds have become smaller, but the bandwidth of our
experience has widened. Our awareness of surroundings,
including the natural world, as we slow down and tune into it, have
become more vital. Despite the lockdown, nature has continued in its
irrepressible way. Every day spent as a reprieve from the reality of
modern life will be cherished however possible.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZtTdlPntBbJ2qJ6eojU41_aIQJ__V2ac26MY5NToJ-gxjt9SlYsvgf03h8LrrIrqpaPRhXs09l1KY-F22QkNSn68COOr6rWAQdiY6vdrsHQhsKv-ULf-8jQbphSZyimLcCo-YhOVodDA/s1600/IMG_0684+Lesser+Celandines%252C+Denton+Wood.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZtTdlPntBbJ2qJ6eojU41_aIQJ__V2ac26MY5NToJ-gxjt9SlYsvgf03h8LrrIrqpaPRhXs09l1KY-F22QkNSn68COOr6rWAQdiY6vdrsHQhsKv-ULf-8jQbphSZyimLcCo-YhOVodDA/s320/IMG_0684+Lesser+Celandines%252C+Denton+Wood.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lesser Celandine (<i>Ranunculus vicaria</i>), Denton Wood</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQHEe7ajBKmn4-DUhWX-m1dgJDAYQFdoBVwM5QcD4fSYL9wNewBpEV4ClAwZWNHO2xjrvhhyphenhyphenFhzU0oJjqvTeBHW6HpMSg3WVyOkTdrzJ3rmkMlYV9wIed84F2nT85PYf4LF9c0vpYAHdU/s1600/IMG_0685+Lesser+Celandines%252C+Denton+Wood.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQHEe7ajBKmn4-DUhWX-m1dgJDAYQFdoBVwM5QcD4fSYL9wNewBpEV4ClAwZWNHO2xjrvhhyphenhyphenFhzU0oJjqvTeBHW6HpMSg3WVyOkTdrzJ3rmkMlYV9wIed84F2nT85PYf4LF9c0vpYAHdU/s320/IMG_0685+Lesser+Celandines%252C+Denton+Wood.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lesser Celandine (<i>Ranunculus vicaria</i>), Denton Wood </td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;">The
author wishes to apologise for any Latin shortcomings.</span></span>
</div>
</div>
Steven Tealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12354452846438858378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544864237910720787.post-40230572150790862022020-04-20T10:58:00.000+01:002020-04-21T07:58:42.460+01:00Lockdown Delights 2/3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<h4 class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Et
in horto domus</i></span></span></h4>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;">The
urge to watch and record the nature around me has continued unabated,
albeit rather more introspectively than usual. Whether working in the
garden or sitting, transported back to Roman Britain with my book,
much has been seen. Red Kites, Buzzards, a Peregrine and Kestrels
have been seen circling above the garden. The burgeoning House Sparrow clan
have become more relaxed with our presence, arguing amongst
themselves and feeding as if we weren’t within inches of them. The
Herring Gull pair is nesting as usual on a neighbouring roof and
swoop to my delight across the garden. The winter flocks of tits and
finches are less frequent now that they have retreated back in to the
countryside, but can still be heard. Dusk and dawn sees the usual
pipistrelles snatching moths <i>en route</i> to my moth trap.</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 115%;">
<br /></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfL2jjJqvw1V4iyG2Q-_sNpg7cKLBcWS25gjKvPrdLCrUDK7VdqO44ZdeyJN_YF9Ub0PgQKxgJypMAVQgmzzQwrHtKR_rnwPbsY6o6ZPRj5kx1gK7GFdTyFsQY8ZpduRtsfrZbAb5kkGI/s1600/IMG_0707+Cucullia+chamomillae+Chamomile+Shark+Newhaven+Claremont+Road+TQ457021.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfL2jjJqvw1V4iyG2Q-_sNpg7cKLBcWS25gjKvPrdLCrUDK7VdqO44ZdeyJN_YF9Ub0PgQKxgJypMAVQgmzzQwrHtKR_rnwPbsY6o6ZPRj5kx1gK7GFdTyFsQY8ZpduRtsfrZbAb5kkGI/s320/IMG_0707+Cucullia+chamomillae+Chamomile+Shark+Newhaven+Claremont+Road+TQ457021.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chamomile Shark (<i>Cucullia chamomillae</i>)</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 115%;">
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<div class="western">
</div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.35cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;">The
moth trap itself has produced earliest records for a few species,
including Waved Umber, Muslin Moth and Chamomile Shark; otherwise it
has been more-or-less average. The <i>Orthosia</i> species seem to be
nearing the end of their season, suggesting they were not too delayed
by the poor weather in February and early March.</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.35cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;">This
year I have left the duckweed on the pond surface. It means that I
haven’t seen the smooth newts or frogs, but I did find some
frogspawn and occasional ripples as adults push their heads above the
surface. I also heard some males calling at night until a few weeks
ago.</span></span> </span></span></div>
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plants are flowering: a carpet of ground-ivy has been seen for the
first time in the wild corner by the compost heap, Herb Robert has
become more established, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;">goosegrass and bedstraws proliferate</span></span> and the red dead-nettle that I left to bloom
has attracted Hairy-footed flower bees (<i>Anthophora plumipes</i>). The blossom on the weeping
cherry has passed, but was sheltered from the recent easterly breezes
this year and so for longer than usual this spring it delighted all
who passed, including several species of bee.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;">In
recent days I have seen in the garden Orange-tips, Large and Small
Whites, a Speckled Wood, Wall, Red Admiral, Peacock, Comma and, for
the first time today, a pair of Holly Blues. The weeping cherry has
Box Bugs (<i>Gonocerus acuteangulatus</i>) basking on its fresh,
delicate leaves and I have seen Green Shieldbugs (<i>Palomena
prasina</i>), Dock Bugs (<i>Coreus marginatus</i>) and Ant Damsel
Bugs (<i>Himacerus mirmicoides</i>) elsewhere in the garden. A patch
of stinging nettles I left now has some tents stitched roughly
together, but I think these might be Mother of Pearl rather than the
hoped-for butterfly larvae. It's not a complaint. Common Carder-bees <em>(Bombus pascuorum)</em> have visited briefly,
while both Dark-edged <em>(Bombylius major)</em> and Dotted Bee-flies (<i>B. discolor</i>) have been resident.</span></span></div>
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vixen has been her usual furtive self, understandable behaviour
considering she is feeding her litter of cubs who are not yet
venturing beyond their earth in an overgrown neighbouring garden. A
hedgehog was seen at the front of the house a couple of nights ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The pace of life has slowed, our worlds have become smaller, but the bandwidth of our experience has widened.</span></i> </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Covid-19 lockdown,
despite its inconveniences, distresses and tragedies, has provided a unique
opportunity for peaceful reflection. Newhaven is, under normal circumstances, a
week-round frenzy of industry, commerce and traffic, a hive which radiates far
and wide its organoleptic bouquet and soundscape of fumes and white noise. That
has mostly fallen silent to reveal sounds and smells which have not been
enjoyed for decades and certainly not in my own memory. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The absence of aircraft and road traffic has given way to birdsong
and wind whispering through the bare branches of the big ash tree – a singleton, ivy-clad
tree which has so far avoided the ravages of its own <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chalara</i> health crisis. The natural
soundscape is punctuated by occasional sounds of lawnmowers, barking dogs, the cross-channel
ferry, trains, farm machinery, a braying donkey and, during calm nights, the
incinerator and migrating birds. The unfamiliar yet welcome sound of a
blackbird calling at the front of our house has even awoken us some mornings. The
woodpigeons’ rooftop calls seem more boastful than usual. The reek of industrial
and traffic exhausts has not been suffered for weeks and instead, our open
windows are filled with the sweet garland of flowering shrubs and garden bonfires.
The world feels as if it has become lost in a sort of perpetual bank holiday. There is a rare beauty in this.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The world as we knew it
shrunk for most of us when the lockdown was announced in March, but for some the term ‘lockdown’ is off beam. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Covid-19 restrictions have been a release from the stifling weight of modern
society. Being rather introverted by nature (and not wishing to trivialise the C-19
crisis’s terrible impacts upon others), I have taken to the ‘new normal’ better
than most. Empty roads and skies, country walks virtually free
of human activity (when timed well), days spent at home and in the garden, a
changed emphasis on staying in touch with family and friends; this has in some senses been the
stuff of fantasy. A weight has been lifted. Consequently, I have found it easy
to find joy in the positive aspects of the crisis and I have resolved to do just this. I have even found that my
creative juices are flowing again (for whatever that is worth). I have even
taken the plunge with reading a long history of Roman Britain that felt too
much of a challenge before the crisis. How different the lockdown might have
been if the weather had not been so kind. How fortunate Amanda and I consider
ourselves to be to have a nice garden and a view of the Ouse estuary and sea. </span><br />
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I have risen early to
view a celestial wonder: a line-up of objects low in the south sky. A
waning moon, the red giant Antares, Ares itself (Mars), Jupiter and
Saturn. This event is well worth an early start. Frustratingly
though, the cloud clearing from an overcast night has not fully
dissipated and clings to the southern horizon.
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There is, however, as I
turn my attention to the contents of my moth trap, another line-up of
phenomena that has been rare of late. For the first time in weeks
most conditions for good moth activity were met: an overcast sky with
light winds and a reasonable temperature which held up after sunset.
For days on end I have opened empty traps after stormy nights, making
do with occasional wind-blown moths clinging to fences or
grass-blades. The pressure amongst the local moth community must have
been building behind a bottle-neck of Atlantic storms, waiting for
their planets to line up until finally, last night, the cork was
popped, the blue touchpaper lit and it was party time.</div>
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Those celestial
fireworks forgotten, I delight instead in a meteoric rise in moth
numbers. There is a tiny, delightful, if dourly-named Brown-spot
Flat-body (<i>Agonopterix alstromeriana</i>) perched on the lip of
the trap; a behemoth Oak Beauty (<i>Biston strataria</i>), its wings
an embroidered quilt of lichen; several Early Grey (<i>Xylocampa
areola</i><span style="font-style: normal;">), which blend in almost
perfectly with the paler egg trays I line my trap with;</span><i> </i>but
the numbers are dominated by <i>Orthosias</i> – the genus of
springtime moths which belong to the largest family of British
species, the Noctuidae. The egg trays are peppered with Common Quaker
(<i>Orthosia cerasi</i>) and Hebrew Character (<i>Orthosia gothica</i>)
and interspersed with Clouded Drab (<i>Orthosia incerta</i>) and
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In the season when
woodpigeons boast again from morning rooftops, when the wren
rediscovers its voice and when tits show renewed interest in our
nestboxes, so too do we begin to encounter many birds' major
nourishment, the moths. There are earthly pleasures to delight in. My
catch of wonders from that space between Earth and the heavens, their
names and numbers recorded, will spend the day in safety before
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I timed my evening walk perfectly tonight. The sunset was
gift-wrapped in a ribbon of flame-orange cloud which glowed parallel with the
western horizon. It wasn’t quite the flamingo hour that Virginia Woolf wrote
of, but this wasn’t smog-filled London but the comparatively clean-aired Sussex
coast. I took my usual route with the dogs: along past the paddocks of Foxhole
Farm and onto the promontory of Rookery Hill, down to the levels below and back
up through the wood towards lighted windows and home.</div>
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Perfectly I timed things. From the Foxhole paddocks I could
see a surfeit of rooks and jackdaws causing a pell-mell in the sky above
Rookery Hill. It’s a common meeting space where birds from more than one
rookery seem to assemble before dispersing to their roosts. I walked straight
into their party and they took tumbling to the sky again in a startling number –
more than I’ve seen here for a long time. Their evening wasn’t yet done and
they regrouped energetically on the meadow a little further along the hill.
Their black silhouettes in the east sky contrasted and balanced with the
flaming ribbon to the west.</div>
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Over and down Rookery Hill to the Bishopstone Road, past
lonely lights which light the road for only the occasional rambler, through the
gate and we plunged into the low meadow, wading into the gloom beneath the
trees. A silk mist was draped across the grass; above, everything was black or
a deepening blue. Further up the hill the party was in full swing: the distant
cacophony of rooks and jackdaws as they flew in wide brush strokes across the
sky. A large group of jackdaws, perhaps a hundred or more strong, played like
starlings or homing pigeons across the sky while rooks rode a fresh easterly
wind high, high up – hanging and hovering like raptors. This swinging party was
all up the far end that I would pass beneath after five or ten more minutes
walk. A small bat passed overhead, a pipistrelle of some sort; then a larger,
unknown one, too big for a pipistrelle.</div>
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They are an endless source of fascination, these rooks. Away
from the helter-skelter, at the bottom end of the wood and just above where I
stood, a quite different gathering was playing out. The skeletons of the dead
diseased elms are often empty, but occasionally their stark silhouettes hold a
few birds perching on bare branches. Tonight the lifeless, stricken body of a
dead rook was caught in the uppermost branch of one tree. It appeared to be
skewered shrike-like onto the branch, like a snagged kite, but it was more
likely that it had fallen with wings open and become snagged by the crook of
its wing around a branch. Its lifeless body flapped pathetically in the breeze it
had once commanded. A short but respectful distance away from the bird sat a
group of sullen rooks, in their usual mourning black. Two magpies passed
through close to the dead bird and one of the rooks darted at them, cawing
angrily and demanding that they keep a respectful distance. It did the same to
any other passing bird, then flew back to its perch ten metres distant. Other
rooks joined it and sat quietly. It was in complete contrast to the festivities
at the other end of the wood, which continued oblivious to this sad scene. I
swear these birds were holding a vigil. The bereaved bird kept his or her place
on the branch; others joined it, sat quietly for a while, some remained the
full while, others passed on to be replaced by new birds, well-wishers,
grief-sharers. The breeze slowed to nothing momentarily, as if the world had
paused in that space between an in-breath and out-breath, or between an
out-breath and in-breath. Slowly and respectfully, it resumed. All the time,
those few rooks sat like silent black points marking a punctuated life. I didn’t
know at that moment if I’ve ever seen such a sad sight: anguish before me
balanced by jubilation at the other end of the wood. I stood and watched in
silence with the dogs until the silhouettes melted into the night. Those few
constant birds were still there when it became too dark to discern them.</div>
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Another bat passed just above my head, now only a hint in
the darkness. A strong thirty mile breeze is forecast tonight. I wonder whether
the dead bird will take its final flight in this breeze, spiralling down
through the trees onto the leaf litter below, seen only by the fox, or whether that other bird,
its companion or mate or parent, will keep its vigil until then.</div>
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From behind me the breeze carried the scent of pipe tobacco
of the type I recognise from the old men’s pipes of my childhood. One of my
dogs growled at something unseen upwind but I could see, hear or
sense nobody. Perhaps it was one of the ghosts of the old harbour side; perhaps
it was an aromatic log on a fire in the village, carried along by the
strengthening breeze, easterly yet warm enough to feel no chill even after
dark.<br />
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We passed silently through the calm of the low meadow and back
up through the trees. In the canopy above the party was over, the birds safely
tucked away in their roost with only the occasional <i>caw</i> from amongst the
branches. The party was over for another night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><br />
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Steven Tealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12354452846438858378noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544864237910720787.post-72062205213675361252018-10-05T23:58:00.001+01:002018-10-06T00:42:54.670+01:00Two years of walking the line<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Rookery Hill 'Mill' Barrow - repurposed ancient monument</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The straight line from Falaise Road</span></div>
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</xml><![endif]-->I am nearing the end of my second year of weekly wildlife surveys
along a line of farmed land between Denton and Bishopstone. The idea arose from
a route I traced home two years ago this month from The Crouch in Seaford,
which I was able to follow along a more or less straight line of footpaths. This
path is stair-rod straight between The Crouch and the parish church of St. Andrew
in Bishopstone – St. Andrew being the patron saint of fishermen. A little digging
revealed that The Crouch in Seaford was once the site of a medieval market. The
name ‘Crouch’ is derived from the Latin <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">crux</i>
or cross: the market cross. The Crouch is located close to the coast where the
course of the river passed by and other adjacent areas of low-lying land hint
at the possibility of a harbour through which passed market goods: coastal and
continental imports and locally-caught fish, which might have been brought
along the similarly named Crooked Lane. The market ceased in 1712, when the former
Cinque Port was in decline and the course of the Ouse had shifted further west.</div>
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Only at one point along the route through Seaford did I need to
deviate from the line: a private house in Stafford Road ironically named <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Gatehouse</i> now blocks the way,
whereas once, as the name suggests, it didn’t – except perhaps for those who
didn’t know the magic word. The Gatehouse is at the top of a steep bank. The notion
of history hiding in plain sight utterly compels me. The emergence of this trackway
between the medieval market in the old parish of Sutton, close to Steyne Road –
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the stony place</i> - to the parish
church of St. Andrew in Bishopstone, which itself is linked by a nearly
straight line to the parish church of St. Leonard in Denton, was a source of
great excitement. So I celebrated its rediscovery in the way I know best by
dedicating a wildlife survey to its memory!<br />
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The true reason for creating the weekly transect survey along this stretch of land was to study the impacts of intensive farming activity upon the insects, and to evaluate the importance of headland flora using butterflies (and moths) as an indicator. How better to do this though than to use ancient trackways that our ancestors used to travel to and from places of worship and commerce? I am using them instead to commune with nature.</div>
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I began the inaugural walk during the first week of April
2017 not yet having chosen the exact route; I decided that I would allow the
land to decide where I should walk. The original idea that I would record butterflies
on a weekly basis between April and October along a straight-lined route
quickly evolved into something approaching a narrow ellipse. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the end of that first walk I had traced a
route from the end of Falaise Road in a roughly south-south-easterly direction
beyond Foxhole and Stud Farms, as far as the gate at the bottom end of Rookery
Hill by the Bishopstone village road, then back uphill beyond four <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tumuli</i> as far as the kissing gate which
separates Rookery Hill from Norton Hill. Incidentally, this kissing gate is
situated on the banks of the northern-most tumulus, which was adapted during
medieval times to act as the base of a mill. The route takes me along headlands
abutting intensively-farmed fields and skirts the edge of improved pastures at
Norton Hill and Rookery Hill. The headlands are razed to the ground each summer
just prior to the harvest. Norton Hill is a recovering ‘improved grassland’
pasture, which is still moderate in terms of biodiversity, but with no recent
fiddling and grazed by a small cattle herd, a flock of sheep and occasional
escaped Dartmoor ponies. A mixed sward is slowly establishing itself year on
year. Rookery Hill is an ancient landscape, formerly a promontory bounded by
the Ouse floodplain on three sides, lately though an un-grazed meadow improved
with fine grasses such as fescues and is cut for hay each June, approximately
(but not intentionally) in phase with the interregnum between the first and
second broods of the Small Heath butterfly. Neither meadow is rich in flora or
fauna, but the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tumuli</i> act as an
archipelago of tiny stable grassland habitats for mixed flora and insects. I
have found previously unseen Silver-spotted Skipper and Adonis Blue butterflies
in small numbers, as well as a good colony of Small Heath in these pastures.
The latter species has been the undisputed monarch of Rookery Hill during the
first two years of the survey.</div>
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The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tumuli</i> are bowl
barrows, believed to be 3500 to 4500 years old. This is what Historic England
has to say about them:</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bowl barrows,
the most numerous form of round barrow, are funerary monuments dating from the
Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age, with most examples belonging to
the period 2400-1500 BC. They were constructed as earthen or rubble mounds,
sometimes ditched, which covered single or multiple burials. There are over
10,000 surviving bowl barrows recorded nationally, and …the bowl barrow on Rookery
Hill survives well and … is one of the best examples of this type of monument
to be found on the East Sussex Downs. These prehistoric barrows are the
earliest known structures on Rookery Hill, and … provide evidence for the
continuity of burial, settlement and agriculture in this area of Downland over
a period of at least 3000 years.</i><sup>1</sup> </div>
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Today I followed the route with Leo and Charlie; they are
helpful in flushing up butterflies and especially so the small heaths. It was a
warming day, sunny with a light northerly breeze. The sky was grazed by a
hundred contrails, suggesting the air was freezing cold at aircraft level. Even
after several hours of sunlight, the longer grasses were still soaked with dew
and some parts of the route were still in shadow. The diminishing power of the
sun is evident in these places. All morning a nauseating hydrocarbon stench – surely
the exhaust from Newhaven’s industrial centre? – had been carried downwind by
the breeze and it wasn’t until nearly halfway that we’d moved beyond the plume.
As I looked back I realised I was wrong: a dark plume of smoke was rising from
Denton Wood, somewhere near the stable yard on The Crescent track. The smell
was quite disgusting and probably not at all healthy.</div>
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Only the hottest patches along the route seemed to have
attracted butterflies. The very start was the only part which had any activity
during the first half, with the usual flurry of Large and Small Whites blousing
their way around the hedges and scrub. These today were joined by a pair of Clouded
Yellows and an inaugural record for the transect of Mallow Moth, which I
followed for some minutes before it allowed me an approach close enough to gain
a positive ID. Plenty of its food-plant lines the headland path. It was quiet
otherwise; even the ivy bees nectaring on ivy blossom seemed fewer in number. The
lack of Red Admirals was again noticed by their absence. Where I have counted
40 on a particular ivy patch in the past, today I saw none. This is proving to
be a poor year for them, possibly because of the hot, dry weather in July.</div>
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The path along the field headlands was an insect desert.
Birds in the paddocks at Foxhole Farm included a fair flock of Meadow Pipit with
a few Pied Wagtails and Linnets intermingled. A Sparrowhawk circled overtly, high
above. Occasional buzzards soared lazily on thermals higher still. The final section of the transect route is usually the most
active, and so it was today. As Rookery Hill descended towards the floodplain
below and tipped the angle of the ground sunwards, beneath the airflow, the
additional heat hosted the only Small Heaths seen along the route – a pair
close together. It was a day of pairs: two Red Admirals skimmed past with
purpose and, by the largest of the four <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tumuli</i>,
a pair of third-brood male Wall Brown were alternately basking on hot dried
grass patches and sparring in tight circles before suddenly and violently
breaking apart. I lingered for a little while and noted that the pair would
spar two or three times each minute. This must be an exhausting activity.</div>
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The temperature was rising on the way home to nearly 20<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">°</span>C and this encouraged a
few more insects into action: a pair of Silver Y moths and a few more white
butterflies. Adult numbers though are settling down for the winter now and
there must now only be a few more weeks left in the survey season.</div>
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Large White (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pieris
brassicaeI)</i> 13</div>
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Small White (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pieris
rapae</i>) 3</div>
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Clouded Yellow (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Colias
croceus</i>) 2</div>
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Small Heath (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Coenonympha
pamphilus</i>) 2</div>
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Wall (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lasiommata
megera</i>) 4</div>
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Red Admiral (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vanessa </i>atalanta)
2</div>
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Mallow Moth (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Larentia
clavaria</i>) 1</div>
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Silver Y (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Autographa </i>gamma)
3</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Bowl barrow, the north westernmost barrow of
a group of six bowl barrows, forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery on
Rookery Hill </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(online) </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1009954">https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1009954</a>
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Steven Tealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12354452846438858378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544864237910720787.post-91525051689511817472018-10-04T23:47:00.000+01:002018-10-04T23:51:27.537+01:00Rooks at dusk<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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caught the twilight by mistake. It was a beautiful early October night, still and
strangely quiet, sun already set, moonrise hours off, and the horizon a peach
ribbon falling into the Channel. The sea seemed to have a glow about it which
seemed, impossibly, brighter than the sky above it. It’s blank canvas was interrupted
only by the thin black lines of the Breakwater and East Pier framed by three
small boats with night-lights aglow.<br />
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Honks from the east heralded an approaching skein of greylag
geese, which flew up over the Rookery Wood canopy. Something innate compelled
me to count them. There were fifty three in a tatty v. The geese have become
familiar again; first seen a week ago, I saw them pass over twice today:
morning and night, but both times heading west, probably to the pond at
Piddinghoe. One of the heralds of winter are these passing skeins. I can imagine
the invisible veils of winter being dragged behind by each skein, one after
one, layer upon layer of winter slowly building, suppressing the warmth of the
season, imperceptibly. Sinking its chill into the ground to emerge after its autumnal
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The geese diffuse into the darkness of the Ouse valley and are gone. As we plough on we disturb the rooks from the ground
before us but, instead of flying to the Rookery’s trees as they usually do,
they split into two streams, one of which steers away from the trees and to the
north. I’ve witnessed this before and can think only that these are visiting
rooks, family members expatriate of the Rookery. Whereas the greylags are a
seasonal delight, the rooks are the exemplar of a renewed astonishment won by
means of familiarity. I’m reminded of a poem by Herman de Conick entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Just as this Island Belongs to the Gulls</i>
and I adapt it for the rooks in their Rookery Hill promontory, jutting out into
the old harbour waters below:</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Just as this island belongs
to the rooks / and the rooks to their cry / and their cry to the wind / and the
wind to no one, </i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">So is this island the rooks’ / and the rooks are their cry /
and their cry is the wind / and the wind no one’s.</i></div>
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Those rooks hold a lifetime of renewed astonishment in store
for me. In these moments my heart and its veneration belongs to the rooks.</div>
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We plunged down Rookery Hill and into the floodplain,
slipping into the old harbour via the narrow aperture between a gate and post
and we were borne into another world. The white noise of distant traffic was
absent, the dense quiet broken only by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">chirrip
chirrip </i>of dark bush-crickets. The cacophony of rooks and jackdaws in the
canopy above has quickly settled into silence tonight and too is absent. Crossing
the meadow beneath the fringe of Duke’s Walk trees, the gloaming meadow studded
with silhouettes, a glow emerged in the distance, low down, prostrate. This old
harbour and its ghosts! Those damp hollows and redshank beds which hold beneath
their surfaces the memory of the old creek were giving up their waters in the
long wave of a rising tide, serenely and kindly haunting. I fancy that I have been
allowed in to become part of the re-enactment, perhaps to acknowledge my
curiosity in the route of the old creek. I played along and imagined walking
knee-deep through its waters, wading to the harbourside, watched perhaps by a
silent owl in the boughs above. If the breeze hadn’t been holding its breath
still, I swear the salt scent of seaweed would have hovered with the mist as I
passed through.</div>
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The kissing gate on the far shore opened silently and gave
into the dark hollow within the trees as Dukes Walk ascends towards Norton Top.
The kissing gate at the top of the wood gives out into open air and, as if we
have passed through and back up the rabbit hole, we are back in the world again,
beneath <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ursa major</i>, chasing the bear
home like Orion with my two dogs, my feet as dry as when I first walked out.</div>
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Steven Tealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12354452846438858378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544864237910720787.post-66160231585983194772018-10-04T01:00:00.001+01:002018-10-04T01:00:48.530+01:00A Sense of Southerham<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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sinking sun earlier today revealed the many textures - the curves, cuts, shades and
stipples - of the Southerham Downs and inspired me to photograph the
same thing many times over! The breathtaking view from Cliffe
Hill of Bible Bottom, Oxteddle Bottom, Caburn Bottom and up to the ramparts of the old hillfort at Caburn Top
itself is one of the finest found in the eastern Downs.<br />
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Steven Tealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12354452846438858378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544864237910720787.post-71262751358718972712018-10-02T14:18:00.002+01:002020-12-18T05:33:10.862+00:00Heartland Walks #3: Ghosts of the Harbour<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Familiarity leads not to contempt, but to renewed astonishment. </span></i></div>
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<i><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">With familiarity, from the known is yielded the unknown, the seen the unseen, the heard the unheard.</span></i></div>
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<i><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A flood of the senses by the rising ghost tide.</span></i></div>
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The artist Simon Lewty wrote that "<i>the same walk can
mean something different each time it is made, so that familiarity may not lead
to contempt, but to renewed astonishment, as the known yields up the unknown</i>"<sup>1</sup>.
I felt renewed astonishment with my discovery of the relics of the old tidal
harbour at Bishopstone, the scars of the old creek that run in a loop which
joins the dots of five ponds in what is now a damp pasture. Countless times
have I walked around this meadow and many times have I looked and wondered at its
curious ditches and embankments, but always only in isolation and never before
seeing it as a whole system, a system which carries downstream, away from the
village and on towards The Buckle, beyond the causewayed coast road and Seaford
branch line, beyond into the scars of the old Ouse, towards the sea. </div>
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The shallow cleft has been present every one of the thousand
and more times I walked through the meadow, hiding in plain sight, unnoticed.
Two hundred and seventy years ago I would have been waist-deep in ooze. Today
it is a mere suggestion, fragmented into a necklace of damp hollows and
seasonal ponds, some not much more than big puddles distressed by cattle-hoof
imprints which makes my own passage tiptoe teetering and treacherous. Events
downstream repurposed this from a place of departure and return into a place
where the twice-daily tidal heartbeat has slowed-slowed to a seasonal ebb and
rise of wet and dry, winter and summer, watched over by the resident cattle and
transient walkers and dog-walkers. The twice-daily tide has been reduced to a
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Today I choose to dwell a while, to trace the loop of the
channel and chart a meandering course where boats once negotiated the
shallows. Where once the flow would have scoured clean the channel, now there
is a detritus of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">things</i> stranded in
space and time. The ruins of a concrete drain float on the surface, perhaps
shattered by the seasonal heave of wet and dry ground. It could be a hundred
year-old drainage improvement effort. There's a flotsam of wooden posts and
planks that might have been fences or bridges that once spanned the channel.
Glass bottles and flints from the decaying wall bob up and down in the
shallows. After the hottest, driest summer in years, the ground here, where
once redshanks called their melancholy ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">teu
teu</i>’, still remained damp enough to sustain a carpet of redshank - that dense
matted flower of ditches and damp places. So the bird has become the flower.</div>
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I pause and listen to the birdsong: jackdaws and rooks and
woodpigeons above, magpies, long-tailed tits, a chiff-chaff, greenfinches, a
great spotted woodpecker. Creatures of the wood. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where once rain would have fallen into the
creek and flowed downstream, now a large beech – surely one of the Duke's
beeches, planted after the water receded – rains its mast into the channel,
slowly filling it. Two grey squirrels dart around its base where once grey mullet
swam. A large owl nest box has been fixed to a sycamore trunk. I've never
noticed it before, tucked away beneath the lowest boughs. Somewhere in the
boughs above, the tawny owl calls as I discover this little secret of the wood’s
edge. Perfect timing! To my right, low across the open meadow a sparrowhawk
sweeps in attack. Then a grey heron glides in - that's more like it! And then a
moment of eerie and wonderful splendour: the bubbling ripples of a curlew’s
call, somewhere in the near distance, unseen but up there on shivering wings,
the call ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cour-lee</i>’, truly a song of
the heart. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sound echoes through the
trees with a moment's sustain, gaining in urgency: ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">troo-ee troo-ee trrroo-eee</i>’. For a moment the air boils, then falls
silent and they are gone. The ghosts of the old harbour are bubbling up through
the ground like a wellspring and I have sunk knee-deep into its memory simply
by pausing here for a few moments. This land is willing to yield its secrets to
anyone who cares to ask.
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The long wave of the last tide ebbed away from this place
250 or so years ago. The harbour may have gone extinct, but the wet never quite
left - it has lingered as a half-memory, a half-remembered purpose it once held
here, a shade or an imprint. The water haunts the meadow, benign in summer and
autumn, resolute in winter and spring; the almost imperceptible year-long tidal
ebb and rise. </div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">Global sea levels have risen by about 20cm since 1880<sup>2</sup>.
They are predicted to rise this century by about a further 65cm<sup>3</sup>, many
studies suggest by as much as or even more than one metre, as oceans continue to thermally
expand and as ice sheets melt. This rise might not revive the little harbour, but
it would allow the water back in and restore it as a more dominant influence<sup>4</sup>.
It might push people further from it and encourage the return of wading birds
and wildfowl. The distant curlews' call may yet return here, but for now I have
to walk on towards the Ouse floodplain to find them.</div>
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<u>References</u></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Clifford, Sue and King, Angela (Eds.) (1996) <i>From
Place to Place: Maps and Parish Maps</i>. London: Common Ground.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>US Global Change Research Program: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Global Sea Level Rise</i> <a href="https://www.globalchange.gov/browse/indicators/global-sea-level-rise">https://www.globalchange.gov/browse/indicators/global-sea-level-rise</a>
(retrieved 02/10/18).</div>
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</span></span></span><a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017ERL....12k4002N">http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017ERL....12k4002N</a>
(accessed 02/10/18).</div>
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</span></span></span><a href="http://www.floodmap.net/">http://www.floodmap.net/</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(accessed 02/10/18).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The creek crosses the road at the dip</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of five ponds at Bishopstone</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Damp hollow</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beech-mast raining into the old creek</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Redshank (<i>Persicaria maculosa</i>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The harbourside where boats moored?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drainage hole in the wall...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...of the seasonal pool<u><br /></u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The former harbourside?</td></tr>
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The rain is already close as Leo and I lock up and disappear
into the weekend. The forecast predicts rain is still two hours off, but the
dark phalanx of cloud marching eastwards suggests otherwise. The first spots
are felt before we’ve walked a quarter of a mile and my wet weather gear is out
and on as the curtain of rain washes over us. The ferry disappeared into it
moments before and is gone, like disappearing into a waterfall. The wind is
fidgety: a low breeze carrying the whiff of Newhaven’s industrial Saturday
morning rises to a headwind, surfing the first enthusiastic rain wave, then
settles back to near calm with the steady rain. We are crossing the chalk east
ridge of the Ouse valley in search of the floodplain below. I have felt a
growing appetite to watch and hear Curlew as they return from their upland
nesting sites to coastal wintering grounds. We will explore the heartland of
the Ouse floodplain. The tide is high and rising, so there is a good chance
they will be sitting it out somewhere in or around the Ouse Estuary Local
Nature Reserve. From a trig above The Rookery, the narrow ribbon of the Mill
Drove shines wet and bisects the Tide Mills ruins. To its east the land
stretches flat to the Buckle and curves inland through the old Pelham estate
towards Bishopstone and its church sat slightly elevated above the once-marsh,
where now a criss-cross of drains cut through damp meadows which still become a
shallow wetland in winter. Curlews and countless other waders once would have
piped the mudflats at low tide. Surrounding escarpment and steep ridges show
where the tides would once have lapped up to twice-daily. This, then, shall be our
starting point.<br />
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over the stile built into the flint wall, one drops down into the floodplain
below. A path into Bishopstone Wood - <i>the Rookery </i>- is a causeway
between two ponds which dry out during good summers. Three other ponds lie nearby. They're alive with
dragonflies then, but none are seen today as I pass towards the woodland edge.
Great trees planted by Thomas Pelham-Holles, the Duke of Newcastle and twice
Prime Minister, sometime after he inherited the land from his uncle in 1711, mark
the boundary between the wood and pasture. They are outliving a decaying flint
wall that follows the tree line and marks the route of <i>Duke's Walk</i> through
the trees and up towards Norton Top. One of the largest sycamores I know stands
over the corner with great vertical boughs reaching like outstretched fingers towards
the sky. Its bark is thick with lichen-crusted scales. Elms and big beeches
which may be nearly 300 years old mark the edge further up.</div>
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ships moored up, sailing between Rookery Hill and Hawth Hill to and from the
river proper and the sea beyond, but this was once the scene. Perhaps the ponds
are its last trace? To imagine this better, it is helpful to view the
floodplain from Rookery Hill above. The hill was once a promontory bounded on
three sides by the estuary. It has Bronze Age barrows and Romano-British and
Saxon settlements which once looked across the tidal flats to neighbouring
settlements on Hawth Hill and beyond across the floodplain to the sea. Much of
this is buried beneath the bungalows of the Harbour View estate. The river
followed an eastward course to the foot of Seaford Head until about
1567, and a ferry-boat operated at Bishopstone to transport people and
livestock to and from the shingle spit and its road which stretched along the coast, beyond the parish of Sutton. In 1567
the river burst through the spit somewhere between what is now The Buckle and Tidemills.
The channel beyond silted up and marked the end of Seaford as a Cinque Port. Only
The Old Brickfield, The Salts and Martello Fields, the position of St. Leonard’s
Church in the old parish of Sutton and the course of Steyne Road – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">steyne </i>meaning a stony place – are
physical hints of the old course of the river. Imagine the joy of being able to
bypass the old port and its rules and taxes. Was there human agency involved
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Later still, in the 1750s, a storm disturbed the shingle
spit and the river broke through to the west at Meeching, soon to become the
New Haven. Between these two events the floodplain at Bishopstone was a harbour.
It’s fascinating to imagine ships moored where the seasonal ponds remain. Shapes in the ground today suggest banksides where the land rose out of the estuary.
Water still influences this land, even if only as the dregs of its former
glory.<br />
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Back below Rookery Wood, the lush grass and damp ground is
no good for sheep grazing and a small herd of well-behaved cattle spends most
of the year here and through the open gate leading into the field to the north,
by the few houses. This land has lived different lives throughout history and
the peaceful inertia of today may once have been rather more influenced by the
tides and industry of the local people. This is a common theme that will recur
as I walk south and then westwards through the floodplain. Standing now though
in the once-estuary, where trees and pasture have replaced the wooden ships and
their harbour, ripples of history can still be felt. The lowest levels are still
inundated after the winter rains each year and the land is usually off limits
during the early months. At these times it might even be navigable by boat.<br />
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<i>The River Ouse and its floodplain is Newhaven's lifeblood.</i><i><i> </i></i></div>
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<i><i>It is an in between land; a little-tamed, wild hinterland; the heartland.</i> </i></div>
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<i>Everything flows from here.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Laying in bed at night I often hear a coarse
purr rising from the port of Newhaven. It carries along on prevailing winds
through the bedroom window. Our house overlooks the flat levels of the lower Ouse
estuary, Newhaven’s heartland, sculpted by the migrating river as it snaked and
carved its course through the millennia. The view stretches southwards to the
sea and inland past the quays which line the river. Visible through a gap in
houses opposite are damp pastures and arable fields surrounded by open drains,
some of which may be remnant creeks that once snaked like eels through tidal
mudflats, others dug in straight channels from the sixteenth century, when the
river rediscovered its ancient route to sea by Castle Hill. The purring sound
comforts me. Rather than disturbing or delaying my sleep, it ushers it on. It
is the sound of home, of familiarity, of safety. I recall that same sound forty
years ago when, as a child, laying in bed on the other side of town, it would
purr its lullaby. I sometimes wonder whether the source is a discrete activity
or just the sound of the town resting after a tiring day of work, its
heartbeat.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The purr reveals a fact about the town: it is
a place of work, where work is done. The narrow ribbon of quayside activity
which lines the river has pulsed daily since the first fishing boats and barges
carried goods to and from the port, inland to Lewes and beyond or along the
coast, working around the tides. At any time today one could hear the deep bass
roar of the ferry as it arrives and leaves or the crash of waste transfer
stations, whirring roof-mounted fans and a thousand other sounds. But when the
white noise settles down for the day, the purr is still there. Piecemeal changes
might mostly have gone unnoticed, yet the town has seen a multitude of
activities come and go in this small parcel of land, some influenced by local
need, others by the relentless march of progress, all punctuated by the
repossession of those places by nature before it is again evicted for the next
endeavour. The pulse of change seems to have quickened during recent decades.
Decisions taken by a few people with narrow interests, inconsiderate of the
wildlife and the town’s character, have attracted the townsfolk’s ire.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Not everyone is bothered. To wave away change
as inevitable and legitimate is to miss a vital truth about any place. Sense of
place is not really about the physical characteristics found on the surface
geography; it is an intricate tapestry of <i>things </i>threaded into the
collective memories and experiences of a population. It is temporal as well as
spatial, geography of the collective mind, and it raises a further truth: how
can it be expected that a developer or a town planner or anyone who does not
share our rootedness understand the catastrophe of change in a place? To those
naysayers who don't think so much of Newhaven’s wild heartland and its history,
I offer the example of the current East Pier, which during the last 125 years
or so has become a cherished feature within the town's character (an east pier
of some sort has been there since about 1670, by the way). There are memories
surrounding the pier. There was the occasion of the steam dredger, surrounded
by the town’s fishing fleet as it dredged silt, fish and shellfish alongside
the pier. I imagine it every time I walk along the East Side beach at low tide
and find the shells of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mactra stultorum</i>,
the Rayed Trough Shell, resting on the sand, where its community still siphons
mud at the river’s mouth as it must have since the river first cut its way
through to the sea here. Purple Sandpipers sit out the high-water on the little
pier and wait for the tide-washed parts of its skeleton to be revealed. Many
birdwatchers have told me this is where they first saw a Purple Sandpiper.
Fishermen cast their lines today in the same arc as previous generations,
hoping to lure the fish which follow the tide out and in. Eric Ravilious
painted the pier on several occasions from the quayside or from his room at The
Hope Inn. People once waved off little boats from the pier as they sailed out to
rescue troops stranded at Dunkirk. These stories are etched into the
heart of the town’s identity and the hearts of the townsfolk.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The east pier is nearing the end of its time,
soon to be replaced by a deep water berth and the protective embrace of a new
sea arm, which no doubt will itself find its way into our hearts. Many locals
will mourn the passing of the old pier though. The upset is caused not so much the
harsh fact of change, but more as a result of many small acts of vandalism,
this one included, which corrode Newhaven's character. These are irreversible
acts occasioned upon us, the locals. No developer or decision-maker will
consider the cumulative impact of these acts upon us, or care about where the
sandpipers will be displaced to, or even whether the impact upon the ray shells
will be catastrophic. They won't care if they bury beneath tonnes of aggregate
the place where we once sat on sandy towels with long departed loved ones, or
where a couple had their first kiss. These things have no value to them, only
us. We are the ones who mourn the loss of these things, the familiar patterns
of place. Our map – the one in our collective consciousness – has depth and
emotion which is lacking from the physical, unsentimental statement of
ownership spread across the developer’s desktop. Rather than sharing a cold geography, we are in fact a series of diverse threads embroidered into a <i>psychogeography</i> which forms an intimate knowledge and shared sense of community.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Change can be positive when it is made considerately,
but it is important to remember and provide witness to past changes in order to
inform how best to do it now and in future - to place them in a collective
memory, where experience and feeling take precedent above physical geography.
In this way we can be agents of positive change tomorrow by knowing what is
important today and yesterday. As the shadow of change now looms over parts of
this heartland and I am denied the right to explore familiar places once
accessible, I resolve to explore this small hinterland between The Buckle and
Newhaven’s East Quay and inland to the Drove and beyond to the most northerly
influence of the town, keeping to the floodplain all the way. I'm interested in
the <i>Seahaven </i>hinterland and the blurred line of where Seaford ends and
Newhaven begins. This line has shifted with the course of the river throughout
history. <i>Seahaven</i> is the perfect compromise. This is no wasteland, no
forgotten place; it is the artery, the lifeblood. It is its energy which has
made it difficult to be tamed by people. Natural processes have shaped this
land above any other influence and created what we see and walk upon today. I
will try and collect a snapshot – a word-map – of this place as I find it now
and as we have known it and placed it on display in our collective memory.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The purring sound drifting through my open
window over from the port may one day cease. It might be drowned out by the
acoustic creep of industry. It might be replaced by another familiar noise. Its
passing may not be noticed, but its lullaby may be remembered when its absence
disturbs my sleep. </span><br />
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Steven Tealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12354452846438858378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544864237910720787.post-14464701795547577722018-09-13T12:06:00.000+01:002018-09-26T23:03:56.266+01:00Old Shed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Our old garden shed is popular with the Willow Beauties. It's one of my favourite moth species. They're there
every morning in recent weeks, two or three or four of them. It
fascinates me how in the near-dark they are able to choose a surface that blends with their wings. <i>Crypsis</i>, the behaviour by one animal of avoiding detection by another; truly it's a wonder of the natural world.<br />
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The old shed needs to go. The rusty hinges are failing; the warped wooden slats no longer overlap and keep the weather out. The slope above the shed at the top of the garden needs shoring up with a thick wall to protect our neighbour's greenhouses from the effects of time and gravity: downland heading down land. This is a project for another year though, so for now the shed belongs to the moths and the spiders, the woodpigeon who sits on top in the afternoons, the black cat who teases our dogs (and scares the pigeon away), and the privet and ivy, whose roots behind the old shed are holding the slope together for the moment.</div>
Steven Tealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12354452846438858378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544864237910720787.post-995680536777380902018-06-23T23:37:00.001+01:002018-09-26T23:04:18.644+01:00White-legged Damselfly<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pond at Piltdown</td></tr>
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We ventured north of the district yesterday in search of the
White-legged Damselfly (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Platycnemis
pennipes</i>). These elegant, feather-legged little damsels like to bask on abundant
floating vegetation and the pond at Piltdown, which has caught my attention
while driving past, looked a promising site.</div>
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My reason for hunting ‘featherlegs’ is to contribute to a
survey that’s been organised by the British Dragonfly Society: the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">White-legged
Damselfly Investigation</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. The
point is to learn more about this species and add to our limited understanding of
it. There are increasing concerns that this dainty little insect is in decline
in Britain. More information about the survey can be found <a href="https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/content/white-legged-damselfly-investigation">here</a>.</span></div>
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The very first damsel I focused my binoculars on was a
White-legged Damelfly, a male on an iris leaf manoeuvring its abdomen in the
fashion of an ovipositing female. On closer inspection it was stuck to some
spider silk. Once freed it stood on my finger for a few moments before gently
alighting half a metre to another iris, where we both lingered for a little
while.</div>
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The pond didn’t disappoint; it was alive with seven
damselfly species, basking on what seemed every blade and leaf of vegetation.
Black-tailed Skimmers patrolled the banksides while teeming Swifts screeched
above them. Two hours later I had seen eight damselfly and dragonfly
species, along with a few other species of interest.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Rutpela maculata</i> long-horn beetle</td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Species seen:</u></b></div>
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<u>Odonata (eight species)</u> </div>
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Banded Demoiselle (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Calopteryx
splendens</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2</div>
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White-legged Damselfly (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Platycnemis pennipes</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2</div>
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Large Red Damselfly (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pyrrhosoma
nymphula</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2</div>
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Blue-tailed Damselfly (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ischnura
elegans</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>29</div>
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Common Blue Damselfly (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Enallagma
cyathigerum</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5</div>
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Azure Damselfly (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Coenagrion
puella</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>120</div>
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Red-eyed Damselfly (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Erythromma
najas</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5</div>
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Black-tailed Skimmer (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Orthetrum
cancellatum</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>12</div>
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<u>Lepidoptera (eight species)</u></div>
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Nut Leaf Blister Moth (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Phyllonorycter
coryli</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- mines on hazel leaves</div>
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Large Skipper (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ochlodes
sylvanus</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3</div>
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Large White (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pieris
brassicae</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1</div>
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Small White (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pieris
rapae</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4</div>
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Green-veined White (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pieris
napi</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2</div>
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Ringlet (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aphantopus
hyperantus</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1</div>
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Meadow Brown (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maniola
jurtina</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1</div>
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Comma (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Polygonia
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<u>Coleoptera (one species)</u></div>
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Yellow and black Longhorn Beetle (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rutpela maculata</i>) 2</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White-legged Damselfly (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Platycnemis pennipes</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td></tr>
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Steven Tealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12354452846438858378noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544864237910720787.post-18766107606762085042017-10-13T23:04:00.003+01:002017-10-13T23:04:42.882+01:00The end of the survey season at Newhaven's Castle Hill Local Nature Reserve<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The dodgy weather during the first half of the week meant that I didn't get out
until Thursday lunchtime. There was a decidedly autumnal feel (if it's not stating the obvious) and
the sun hadn't burnt off the previous night's dew despite a sunny
morning, such is its lack of strength in late October. Butterfly
activity was low and I saw only twenty in total (six species), as follows:</div>
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Small White 3</div>
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Speckled Wood 7</div>
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Red Admiral 6</div>
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Painted Lady 1</div>
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Comma 2</div>
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This week was the final week of the official survey season, but Dave usually continues surveying until butterfly activity settles down for the winter.
The
butterflies are now mostly confined to the sheltered footpaths and
areas with ivy still in blossom, but there are still opportunities to
find them when it's not too chilly. Small Tortoiseshells and Peacocks
have probably already flown into the Fort's tunnels to overwinter and
my next surveying activity will be in mid-December when we make our
first winter count in the tunnels. Until then it's back over to Dave and
the Gang
to see what's still active above ground. At least it will take longer
for the ice cream to melt!</div>
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<div>
My attention will now
focus on collating all the data we've collected this year and compare
it with previous years. This will take some time but I am hoping to have
the year's results ready to share at the December meeting. </div>
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I
am also continuing work this winter on the nature reserve's 'Super
List' as we approach the fifty year anniversary in 2021 of the first
formal records made along the Newhaven clifftops and slumps. The list will
eventually include every known record ever made at the site and there
are some impressive recorder names already on the list, as well as some
impressive species, not least the Mediterranean Oil Beetle (<i>Meloe mediterraneus</i>) which was discovered earlier this year. The list will be a valuable resource when it is completed
(hopefully by winter 2018/19) and I hope it will inspire additional recording
effort.</div>
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