Mosswood News

March 08

Wild flowers can now start to be seen in our wild flower borders & butterfly borders are Corn cockle, Cornflower, Foxglove, Red Campion, Field Scabious, Ox-eye Daisy, Evening Primrose, & Lesser Knapweed.

April 08

The place is alive with birds gathering Twigs and Moss to build nests from dawn till dusk it's like watching planes arrive and depart at Heathrow as the birds track backwards and forwards.

June 08.

Our small lake which was built last year is starting to take shape with pioneer plants covering the ground around the margins. Subject to permission from the Environment Agency we will be looking to stock it with fish this year.

A great thing happened only last night when Chris and I were watching the insect life on the water and Swallows scooping them up. We watched with fascination the Damsel flies, resting on vegetation near water and drifting through the air, with their vivid colors they were just fantastic to watch.

Also another sucess is the first breeing pair of Mallard on the island, thay have hatched nine duckings who are great to watch.

Tourers

They say the economy is going wrong and everyone is tightening their belts, well may be so but we have never been as busy for Tourers. Some people are travelling only thirty minutes to get to us on a weekend, people who in the past would have travelled a lot further. ...Interesting stuff, we are really pleased to see them.

July 08.

Yesterday we had a visit from The David Bellamy Award Scheme assessor, there is a lot more paperwork this year as David’s son Rufus is now involved in the scheme and is putting some more emphasis on Sustainability rather than Ecology.

Its not a problem it’s the way the world should go but just takes al little more time. Whilst taking time out though it was great to hear the comment, ‘Its just great to come to a place where they know what they are doing’…That was a real credit to the Team, lets hope we get a Gold Award again.