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Sep 21, 20202 min read

WNF Lymington Walk - 20 Sept 2020

Marcus writes: Our second Lymington Discovery walk of the weekend saw me meeting Karen and David at the Bath Road carpark before heading...

Sep 19, 20201 min read

WNF Lymington Walk - 19 Sept 2020

Marcus writes: Well, our first official tour out of Lymington with Andrew Colenutt and his friends, a young family of four. A busy...

Sep 15, 20203 min read

Wild New Forest guided wildlife tours and community benefit

“No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced” Sir David Attenborough Wild...

Sep 6, 20203 min read

Pine Martens in the New Forest – a welcome return?

Russ writes: The Pine Marten was once historically widespread throughout the UK, but a combination of forest clearance and persecution...

Jul 4, 20203 min read

Getting to grips with breeding Lesser Redpoll in the New Forest

Marcus writes: For years now I have been fascinated and somewhat taunted by Lesser Redpoll (hereafter Redpoll) in the New Forest - most...

Jul 3, 20203 min read

WNF April 2020 review

Russ and Marcus write: April was mostly a dry and settled month, with high pressure in control and a dominance of southerly and easterly...

May 3, 20204 min read

WNF March 2020 review

Marcus and Russ write: The first half of March saw a continuation of the wet and windy weather that dominated for much of the preceding...

Mar 22, 20204 min read

New Forest Lesser Spotted Woodpecker survey

Guest Blog by Rob Clements: The seemingly never-ending sequence of storms and heavy rain has now been replaced by a period of more...

Mar 21, 20203 min read

New Forest Breeding Waders - appeal for sightings

Russ writes: The New Forest is one of the most important sites in southern England for ground-nesting waders, but this species group is...

Mar 19, 20202 min read

New Hawfinch roost!

Marcus writes: Following a recent tip off from Nigel Owen, the alarm went off at 0430 yesterday morning and I made way up to a fairly...

Mar 19, 20202 min read

Spring migrants arrive in force at the coast

This morning I was up early and already heading to the New Forest coast in the half-light of dawn, enticed by a weather forecast of light...

Mar 15, 20202 min read

Hawfinch fieldwork through the week

Marcus writes: Unfortunately work, and in particular the impact of coronavirus, has dominated my working week, but it hasn’t all been...

Mar 8, 20203 min read

WNF February 2020 review

Russ and Marcus write: It was an exceptionally wet month, with Met Office records indicating it was the wettest February since records...

Mar 2, 20202 min read

WNF Hawfinch survey - call for volunteers

Marcus writes: From late March we will be embarking on the second year of GPS/radio tracking Hawfinch in the New Forest. Adult male...

Feb 28, 20202 min read

Sika Deer

Russ writes: The weather is wreaking havoc with fieldwork at the moment, but yesterday I managed to get out on the gravel bike after the...

Feb 24, 20202 min read

New Forest Snipe survey

Russ writes: Yesterday I attended a briefing for New Forest Snipe surveyors led by Keith Betton (Chairman and Country Recorder, Hampshire...

Feb 11, 20202 min read

Hawfinch ringing in the northern New Forest

Marcus writes: In the darkness, at 0600 on Saturday morning, a small group of us gathered in a compact block of deciduous woodland in the...

Feb 10, 20202 min read

WNF January 2020 review

Russ and Marcus write: The weather during January was dominated by a mild westerly airflow, which meant that the mean temperature was...

Feb 9, 20202 min read

Colour-ringed Peregrine and Ruff reveal fascinating life histories

Russ writes: Colour ringing is a great way of tracking birds' movements and allows individual birds to be identified in the field, unlike...

Feb 9, 20202 min read

January Hawfinch roost counts

Marcus writes: Each year through Jan and Feb I set myself the task of counting all the known Hawfinch roosts in the New Forest. The...