The first RIVER NEWS page can be found on Hills Farm Wildlife Conservation and covers events on our stretch of Boldings Brook and the River Arun which it joins.
This new River News2 page is dedicated to the rivers on our patch and will cover the same area with recent events.
more to be posted soon…..
19th April 2017
Mallard pair dabbling on a bend in the river
3rd March 2017
The Environment Agency removing an old branch which was trapping debris just upstream of a fine riverbank Willow at the confluence of the Arun. This was a freezing job, even when wearing drysuits.
27th February 2017
High water on the river confluence with the Arun in the foreground.
The river was flowing normally after about 28mm of rain overnight, with no problems.
Not far downstream of the confluence - on the Arun, the long concrete beams for the North/South road bridge linking the two sites of the Highwood development are being craned over the river, out of sight.
Meanwhile the Environement Agency has delivered a winch tractor and a JCB digger onto our side of the river in preparation for hauling out the branches and trunk of an old Ash tree which had fallen across the tributary last year. Nuthatches had promptly nested in a hole in the fallen tree, rearing young that spring/summer (2016), so the tree remained untouched for the year.
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