OUR AIM IS TO PROTECT OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE HABITAT IT PROVIDES FOR WILDLIFE ALONG THE RIVERSIDE
January 30th 2022 started cold and frosty, remaining bright all day with a fresh SW breeze. The river was low after little rainfall over the previous weeks. This revealed the presence of some long-submerged trolleys together with some more recent ones. Fortunately conditions were good and they could be reached from the river banks. It was a successful morning, with five bags of rubbish, a traffic cone and four supermarket trolleys collected.
Birds were singing loudly, with Great Ts calling although no match for the Robins and Dunnocks . There were very good views of a Nuthatch calling from a bare tree.
The mature Oaks were the last large trees to looses their
leaves but fresh new leaf buds appeared even before the old leaves had fallen.
By 20th January this Oak had lost its old leaves and the new leaf buds were
growing well. Will there be acorns this year? It's too soon to tell.
