OUR AIM IS TO PROTECT OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE HABITAT IT PROVIDES FOR WILDLIFE ALONG THE RIVERSIDE
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Our Meet for December took place on Sunday 16th, leaving rather a long gap until the next scheduled meet which is on Sunday 27th January 2019.
A list of our scheduled meets for 2019 is now on the 'NEXT MEET' page.
Fortunately some of the group will be out and about before then.
On 16th December, the river was higher and faster after rainfall the previous day and night which actually helped three of our group with the difficult task of hauling a large supermarket trolley up the steep banks of the Arun. It was quite cold, with shallow standing water on riverside land and ponds iced over.
Several nuthatches observed us from oaks near our meeting point and called out loudly on our approach. They are birds which establish their territories early in the winter and often commence cavity construction work on adapting chosen sites well before they are needed.
After a few more days of rain, the Arun Valley started to fill and
water levels rose in rivers in the upper catchment - a good sign of normal
winter weather here.
This is the Arun looking upstream on 21st December 2018.
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