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Richard Williamson
RICHARD WILLIAMSON Chichester Cathedral Peregrines...The young peregrines are growing rapidly thanks to father
The four young peregrines in the cathedral tower are growing rapidly thanks to father. This week he brought in seven starlings in three and a half hours. His four children were so stuffed they fell asleep in a heap allowing mum and dad two hours to themselves.
RICHARD WILLIAMSON Country Walk...Heyshott Scarp and Downs
This is a walk to show you where to go this Saturday, May 19, for the guided walks by Murray Downland Trust around Heyshott Nature Reserves; or this map and directions can be used at any time of the year for a super up-and-down ramble of 5.5kms (3.4 miles).
RICHARD WILLIAMSON Nature Trails...Chance to spot rare fritillary butterfly
Heyshott nature reserve is open to the public this Saturday, May 19, to see one of the rarest of all butterflies, the Duke of Burgundy fritillary.
RICHARD WILLIAMSON Country Walk...Wildhams Wood
This is almost the perfect walk with masses of wild flowers, firm paths, no stiles, a climb to start and a gentle slope back, accompanied by forest murmurs from young beech trees.
RICHARD WILLIAMSON Nature Trails...Going cuckoo for bringers of spring
About 230 cuckoos sing in Sussex but the number declines. When you see the problems these harbingers of spring have in Timbuktu and the surrounding desert landscapes which they have to cross from the Congo to the English Channel, you wonder that any get here at all.
RICHARD WILLIAMSON Cathedral Peregrines...The peregrines’ family life
The cathedral peregrines have lived up to their name as the most successful in known history as they rear the most recent of their children. Mum remains as good a mum as any family could ever want and dad does his bit too, having got family life down to a fine art.
RICHARD WILLIAMSON Chichester Cathedral Peregrines...Tiercel works tirelessly to feed his new family
With four eggs hatched successfully on Chichester Cathedral, life for the famous peregrines now gets back into the fast lane. Three food parcels a day have to be brought back to the eyrie to feed the family of five (fifth being mum – technically the ‘falcon’ – dad is the ‘tiercel’).
RICHARD WILLIAMSON Nature Trails...Come and enjoy an exciting open day at West Dean Woods
Come and look at these orchids on Saturday, May 5, at the open day at West Dean woods where I live. There are 40 acres of carefully-managed coppice woods to wander through and I shall lead walks every hour or so throughout the day.
RICHARD WILLIAMSON Country Walk...West Dean Woods
This week’s walk is really for the open day at West Dean Woods nature reserve this weekend, May 5. It shows you places where you can be picked up by minibus from West Dean Gardens car park or where you may be able to park your car nearer the nature reserve on roadside verges.
RICHARD WILLIAMSON Nature Trails...Famous Five just a few from many
The ‘Famous Five’ cuckoos radio-tagged by the BTO which spent their winter in the Congo and possibly passed over Timbuktu on their way back to Britain are only five among tens of thousands of birds arriving back to breed.
RICHARD WILLIAMSON Country Walk...Amberley Mount
This five-mile (8kms) walk takes you over the heights then back to the valley of the Arun river. Views to die for, wild orchids, blue butterflies and one grey glimpse of sea.
RICHARD WILLIAMSON Chichester Cathedral Peregrines...It’s time for the 42nd chick to make an entry
OUR cathedral peregrine should hatch the first of her four eggs now. The others soon after. If all hatch successfully this will give her and her younger mate 42 children. Ornithologists seem to agree that this makes the famous pair the most successful peregrine pair ever known in recorded history.
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Weather for Midhurst
Wednesday 23 May 2012
Today
Sunny
Temperature: 14 C to 25 C
Wind Speed: 10 mph
Wind direction: North
Tomorrow
Sunny spells
Temperature: 13 C to 25 C
Wind Speed: 12 mph
Wind direction: North east
