Showing posts with label RPS Nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RPS Nature. Show all posts

Monday, March 16, 2026

Barnwell Country Park

 A very enjoyable trip to Barnwell Country Park with the RPS Nature group and Paxton Volunteer group. We were shown round by Matthew, an RPSNature member but also a volunteer at Barnwell. This Northamptonshire Country Park is small but had a good variety of subjects to photograph, both birds (later post) and meadow/trees/wetland habitats to explore more 'closely'. My highlight was photographing my first pseudoscorpion found in the leaf litter under a log. The second photo is on Mike's handkerchief - the detail in the weave shows just how small this is. Under or near the same log there were various beetles, wood lice and Enchytraeus (White worms includes about 40 species of annelid worms) and a Ground Hopper. (ID sheet at end)

Sunday, February 22, 2026

Wicken Fen NT

The RPS Nature group outing to Wicken Fen was very well supported this year. The forecast rain stayed away  though it was very muddy underfoot. Birds were few and far between over most of the Reserve though  the Stonechats on Burwell and Bakers Fens and the Shovellers and Coots on West Mere did their best to provide some action. The most obliging was the Cormorant that had chosen a very graphic perch for its portrait. Great to see Coltsfoot flowers breaking through over many areas of the Fens.