| When? |
What? |
What happens? |
Where and what to look for |
| 1st Week |
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House Martin |
Have nests |
Look under house eaves for their mud nests. They like to nest all
together and come back from Africa each Spring to nest at the same house! |
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Rhododendron |
Start flowering |
This plant introduced from Asia has taken over in many wet areas.
But people travel to see its mass flowers at this time of year. |
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Honeysuckle |
Start flowering |
You can see honeysuckle climbing up bushes and forming small clumps.
Its scent is famous. |
| 2nd Week |
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Bramble |
Starts flowering |
Bramble or blackberry is a member of the rose family and produces pretty
white flowers. |
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Swallow |
First fledge |
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Hedgehog |
First young |
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| 3rd week |
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Now the heathers start to gain colour ..... |
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Froglets |
Leave water |
The tadpoles have sprouted legs and leave the water to forage in the grass
around ponds. In a good year there can be hundreds and you have to walk carefully to
avoid treading on them. |
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Foxglove |
Starts flowering |
These tall coloufull spikes of flowers can often be found in old
hedgebanks. |
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Damselfly and dragonflies |
On wing |
Suddenly these beautiful slender damselflies and the heavier dragonflies
can be seen in numbers over ponds. |
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Bell and Cross-leaved heather |
Start flowering |
On dryer parts of Chobham Common, Bell Heather produces bright blue
flowers; the pale blue crossed-leaved can be found in the wettest parts. Hence just
by the colour of the heather around you can determine whether you are on dry or wet
ground. Usefull for avoiding falling into bogs! |
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Water forget-me-not |
In flower |
Pretty blue flowers emerging from ponds |
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Stag beetle |
Emerge |
These huge beetles with their horns are attracted to our lights. So
don't leave a window open and the light on! |
| 4th week |
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Wild strawberry |
First have fruit |
These look like ordinary garden strawberries - but the fruit is much
smaller - but tastier! |
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