The Feed

Wednesday 6th January 2021 Typical student desk! What a mess. I feel very lucky to have my university work to do - even in lockdown the...

Thursday 24th December 2020 Merry Christmas from Wokingham! The picture is taken from a farm that we pass on one of our local walks. They...

Saturday 19th December 2020 It might not look like much but this is the first time that I have been coppicing! I went out with the Holt...

Friday 18th December 2020 The virtual placement has finished - I am quite sad - it was a really great week. Some really good speakers...

Thursday 17th December 2020 Todays subject was monitoring - three really good speakers with very interesting backgrounds. Owain did a...

Wednesday 16th December 2020 Another great day at the virtual placement - today was all about Effective Conservation. The talk in the...

Tuesday 15th December 2020 We heard last night that London moves into Tier 3 on Wednesday. Instead of seeing Charlotte and Elliott on...

Monday 14th December 2020 First day of the Hengistbury Head virtual placement. They have a great wildlife conservation work placement...

Sunday 13 December 2020 Today was volunteering for the first time with the Cotswold Water Park Trust. Forecast was absolutely miserable -...

Tuesday 8th December 2020 I have three assignments to complete over Christmas and the 5 day virtual placement next week plus work that...

Sunday 6th December 2020 On Saturday I joined the Holt Copse volunteers for the morning. We spent the time cutting down brambles and...

Thursday 3rd December 2020 The bird box went up on the farm today! It was a miserable morning but we put up about 10 boxes around Coates...

Tuesday 1st December 2020 I submitted the last university assignment for 2020 today. It isnt good for all sorts of reasons - mostly...

Sunday 29th November 2020 We went for a walk around Gorrick Plantation today and I decided to do a survey on Mammal Mapper for the Mammal...

Thursday 26th November 2020 Woke up this morning and it froze overnight! What a beautiful walk over to the university - I feel so lucky...

Tuesday 24th November 2020 Today there was a Great Spotted Woodpecker on the bird feeder - I was so happy! I didnt dare move to take a...

Saturday 21st November 2020 Over the last few weeks in lockdown 2.0 we decided to do more of the walks around Wokingham that we did in...

Wednesday 18th November 2020 I went for a walk over to Coates farm (part of the university) to look for birds - but turned into a mammal...

Tuesday 17th November 2020 Busy practising for my test tomorrow - I have run through the wildlife identifications so many times over the...

Thursday 12th November 2020 Outdoors for a practical today - over in Cirencester Park doing some glade clearing. There are some Pearl...