Nature Blog by Jenny Bourne

There are some old fruit trees, apple and pear, in the wildlife area and Ruth’s organised a group – Conservation Fruit Trees, to bring them back to good health and maintenance. A group of us went up on Sunday, to have a look at the trees from the beehive area side.

Dave took a video and this splendid shot of a kestrel perched on the compost toilet pipe. There have been several sightings of what appears to be a juvenile kestrel…

The bees are making the most of the sun when it comes out between the heavy rains – yesterday the heavens opened in a torrential downpour with thunder and lightning over Richmond Station.

A very exciting piece of RPA wildlife news from last month – a sighting of a brown hairstreak feeding on garlic chives on 25 August, by Jon and Carol! To our knowledge this is the first time a brown…

Enjoying a coffee at Sunday’s Café in the warm sun when keen birders shouted out, ‘Jenny!’ and there was this juvenile kestrel…