Nature Notes – December 2015 – Sarah E Vandome
The Roseland has many secret places hidden away from the regular tourist trails, visited by only those who live near by or have reason to go there. The lack of human disturbance...
Category: Nature Notes 2015
Nature Notes – November 2015 – Sarah E Vandome
The harvest is in, the clocks turned back an hour and humans keep warm by staying indoors. Outside however, many organisms are preparing to survive the cold season head on, by conserving...
Nature Notes – October 2015 – Sarah E Vandome
Sea shells: these abundant jewels of the sea lie scattered amongst the sand and rock of our secluded Roseland coves; they are fascinating, beautiful, endlessly collectable. They were once the exoskeletons of...
Nature Notes – September 2015 – Sarah E Vandome
Hoverflies: often brightly marked, sometimes almost waspish and therefore slightly scary, are everywhere, settling on pollen-rich flora among the bees and butterflies. Their role as pollinators is as vital as the bees...
Nature Notes – August 2015 – Sarah E Vandome
Emmets: there’s a lot of them about and they are often considered a nuisance. I’m referring of course to ants. The Cornish-English dialect word for ant – emmet – is often used...
Nature Notes – July 2015 – Sarah E Vandome
What’s in a nest? It’s astonishing just how much can be achieved with just a beak and a variety of building materials. The skill and ingenuity of birds in building new nests...
Nature Notes – June 2015 – Sarah E Vandome
The green umbellifers of Alexanders and the frothy white ones of Cow parsley have run to seed, replaced by others flowering this month. Many of the Apiaceae family are edible, but some...
Nature Notes – May 2015 – Sarah E Vandome
Walking is, apparently, the new fitness routine. It’s also the best way to get out and enjoy some fabulous nature sights at this time of year. With so many public access footpaths...
Nature Notes – April 2015 – Sarah E Vandome
Kaaarr! TchKaaarr! Who said that? Little sooty-black characters are making loud banter on the roof tops, sheltering on the lee side of the pitch, watching and waiting on what everybody else is...
Nature Notes – March 2015 – Sarah E Vandome
One of the many features that marks the Roseland as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is its Cornish hedges. They criss-cross the landscape, forming field borders, boundaries, and tunnels over our...