| Take stroll through colourful landscape | | 12:56pm Wednesday 7th May 2008 | | THE arrival of May has chased the last traces of winter away. The landscapes are ablaze withcolour and at their most vibrant. Nowhere is this more true than within the bluebell woods. |
| Extra water may have positive effect on marsh | | 2:08pm Monday 21st April 2008 | | LATE April through to June is my favourite time to get out onto the district's wetlands and have a good look round. I try to do this quietly and usually with one other member of the Ranger Service. The quiet, slow approach to wandering across the marsh is adopted to avoid causing to much disturbance, to the marshes animal life. |
| World heritage talk | | 2:31pm Wednesday 16th April 2008 | | The Friends of the Leasowes will meet on Wednesday April 23 at Leasowes School, Kent Road, Halesowen, at 7pm. |
| Lively calves have fun on our reserves | | 7:20pm Tuesday 15th April 2008 | | FOR many years, cattle have formed part of the management of many of the district's nature reserves. Their tireless consumption of the plant on the reserves contributes to the reserves' biological diversity. |
| Spare a thought for butterfly in peculiar April | | 5:33pm Tuesday 8th April 2008 | | APRIL has been a peculiar month so far. The spring sun is now strong enough so that when we get a cloudless day its heat is sufficient for all to feel its warmth and on days where the air is relatively still, weather conditions are extremely pleasant. |
| On the trail of sun-loving caddisfly | | 6:32pm Monday 31st March 2008 | | SPRING is starting to make itself felt across the district and many plants are coming out of their winter dormancy, spreading fresh green leaves to help brighten up the world. Insects are also starting to emerge. |
| Pretty dandelion is one of nature’s masterpieces | | 9:38am Wednesday 26th March 2008 | | SPRING wildflowers are always welcome. Many of us take great pleasure from the showy blooms of daffodils and crocuses when they bloom in our gardens and along the road verges. |
| Bright and vivid flowers chase drabness away | | 5:59pm Monday 10th March 2008 | | SPRING flowers are at last starting to brighten up the land, their bright and vivid colours driving away the drabness of the winter landscape and lifting the hearts of all that see them. |
| Perfect place to hone kingfisher watching skills | | 10:29am Wednesday 5th March 2008 | | THE sandy soils we find around Wyre Forest district are responsible for much of our more unusual wildlife. They are nutrient poor and this has lead to the evolution of the district's lowland heaths and acid grasslands. The soil's sandy nature also means it is easily burrowed. |
| Have a mini-adventure close to home | | 6:21pm Tuesday 26th February 2008 | | IT is not too difficult these days to find a television programme or film showing some intrepid explorers pitting their wits, skills and strength to travel across some forbidding environment in a remote corner of the world. Here in Britain we have few areas left that you could describe as wild and untamed for us to challenge our need for exploration. |
| All we want is some plain old normal snow | | 10:12am Tuesday 12th February 2008 | | LAST summer, whilst we in Britain were suffering deluge after deluge, many other parts of the world were in the grip of prolonged heatwaves. These warm dry conditions led to extensive wildfires, particularly in Greece and in California. |
| Discover hidden gems of winter landscapes | | 10:59am Thursday 7th February 2008 | | BLEAK lifeless winter landscapes can be rather depressing but there is always a little and colour and interest to find if you go in search and I decided that Habberley Valley was going to be just the place for my next quest. |
| Hibernation not as easy as going to sleep | | 11:51am Wednesday 9th January 2008 | | AFTER the last ice age, 15,000 years ago, what we now know as our native mammals crossed the land bridge attaching us to the continent. |
| Weird and wonderful world of the flatworm | | 11:40am Monday 10th December 2007 | | I HAVE always held a fascination for invertebrates. They exist in our world and we can to some extent interact with them but we have to really work our imaginations if we are to hope to get a glimpse of what their world is like. |
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