by Rebecca Porter | May 15, 2025 | Wildlife Reports
Early spring is a perfect time to see our native trees not just come into leaf but also flowering. Our oak trees are also showing a multitude of oak apples. These are growths or galls caused by one species of gall wasp, Biorhiza pallida. Less obvious, are the marble... 
by Rebecca Porter | Apr 6, 2025 | Wildlife Reports
Insects suffered a triple whammy from the weather last year with a wet winter, cold spring and cool summer affecting all stages of their life cycle. This had a knock on effect on many of our birds that rely on insects to feed their young in the breeding season. It is... 
by Rebecca Porter | Mar 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
There are some serious signs of spring as February draws to a close. The first chiffchaffs to be heard singing already are probably the birds that over wintered at Sculpture by the Lakes and will have a head start on those returning from Africa or the Mediterranean... 
by Rebecca Porter | Jan 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Our resolution for new year is to learn more about lichens. We seem to support quite a spectacular array of them on our trees. There are three main types that are structurally quite different: foliose or leafy lichens, fruticose or bushy lichens and crustose or crusty... 
by Rebecca Porter | Jan 24, 2025 | Wildlife Reports
Wild Wednesdays may have stopped for the winter but nature hasn’t. Some of our log piles are coming into their own now they have been lying for several years and are supporting an array different types of fungi: tiny bonnet mushrooms, large and small bracket fungi and...
