Sussex Field Notes

@metoffice please can you tell us when the pollen forecast online will return. Thank you. Yours faithfully Hayfever Sufferers

Today @morethanadodo Oxford University Museum of Natural History

You and many many many other people. It is a big thing, it *should* be a big thing! Sending virtual high five!

Garden is starting to shoot away, slowed by the frosts but humming with bees and other life in the sun

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Don’t forget, as well as watching birds in your garden it’s also very important to give those feeders a thorough clean regularly. I’ve taken some of my feeders down today & soaked them for a while in hot soapy water. Once dry they’ll be refilled & back out for the birds to enjoy!

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Jelly ear fungus on an old elder tree - something to tick off the @BBCSpringwatch #WinterWatch2021 #WinterWatchlist

A glorious walk today, 6mile along muddy tracks, through woodland of various types, via a lost medieval village and ancient barrows, past an eccentric surrealist's house in the woods, and hot-flask-of-soup lunch with a view from the top of the world.

Oh what a poser! Just as I arrived home from my walk I popped into the bedroom to hang up my coat & saw that one of the bank voles was out to feed in the border outside the back door. So grabbed my camera up again & managed this shot before it realised it had been spotted!