King Alfred's Cakes (looks like something else?!) found on perimeter hibernacula.
These non-edible fungi are so named because legend has it that King Alfred, when in hiding from battle, forgot to take his cakes out of the oven and they burnt…
The Trench Roller is a remote controlled piece of equipment we hired to compact the base of the ponds we are creating. It rams the soil until it is rock hard and no water can penetrate. We did 5 layers of soil like this so in theory nice full…
Poplar hawkmoths are our commonest species of hawk moth in the UK. We did not pick up this one on our moth survey but rather when it flew into our tractor cab! They feed on willow and (unsurprisingly) poplar and the red under its wings …
A great big thanks to all the volunteers who helped plant over 800 trees this week
We have created a new mixed hedgerow full of blackthorn, hawthorn, hazel, rowan, oak, field maple and silver birch. …
Lovely Lynne from ASDA Living Thurrock came and presented the Little Belhus Country Park Trust with a £50 cheque yesterday! This money will go towards buying native trees, as we are looking at planting around 3000 trees and shrubs this winter.…
The first of the paths have been put in place! The image in the photo shows the base of the path; this will be covered up with finings to make a smoother surface. This is a three metre wide tracks and will also be suitable for…
The green hay from Langdon Hills finally arrived last week. Due to the heavy rainfall making the site thick with mud and slosh it turned up a little later than anticipated, so when it arrived there was a huge sigh of relief…
