Author: creo

This is the last in a year-long series of monthly blogs, featuring seasonal highlights from the natural world in the New Forest. August is a good month to look and listen out for summer’s chirpiest insects: the New Forest is home to 67 per cent of the grasshoppers and crickets that are found in Britain. … Continued

This is the latest in a year-long series of monthly blogs, featuring seasonal highlights from the natural world in the New Forest. July is a good month to enjoy the heaths and valley mires. Hot weather brings out the adder, sand lizard, smooth snake and common lizard to bask in the sun, so you are … Continued

This is the latest in a year-long series of monthly blogs, featuring seasonal highlights from the natural world in the New Forest. Summer is in full swing, with Midsummer Day on 24 June signalling that we are already half way through 2016. Wild flowers in bloom this month are the dog rose, enchanter’s nightshade, foxglove, … Continued

This is the latest in a year-long series of monthly blogs, featuring seasonal highlights from the natural world in the New Forest. The New Forest is teeming with wildlife in May, meaning there is a lot to see, hear and smell. Why not have A Date With Nature at the Reptile Centre in Lyndhurst to … Continued