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Autumn 2020 News from Willoughby Wood

Autumn 2020 News from Willoughby Wood

by Willoughby Parish Council | Nov 2, 2020 | Autumn, Nature & Wildlife

Willoughby’s beautiful Millennium Wood is maintained by a wonderful team of volunteers. Now led by Dick Merriman – and before that for many years by Brian Thornally – the team looks after the trees, maintains the pathways and sees that any jobs that...
Community Post | Hedgerow Foods: Nettle Soup

Community Post | Hedgerow Foods: Nettle Soup

by Willoughby Parish Council | Apr 10, 2020 | Community posts, Nature & Wildlife

This is the ideal time of year to make use of hedgerow foods. The present shortages will challenge our skills in making food stretch further. When going for your daily walk around our wonderful countryside, take a plastic bag and a pair of rubber gloves. The nettles...
Grasses in Willoughby – so much to see!

Grasses in Willoughby – so much to see!

by Willoughby Parish Council | May 12, 2017 | Natural History Page, Nature & Wildlife

There is a whole world of grasses at our feet waiting to be explored and appreciated as part of the scenery and of our rural environment. If we count the cereal crops, which we should include because botanically and genetically they belong amongst the grasses, then 26...
Wildlife of Willoughby

Wildlife of Willoughby

by Willoughby Parish Council | May 12, 2017 | Natural History Page, Nature & Wildlife

Willoughby has no formally designated wild flower gardens, though some gardens are semi-wild by default, including mine. In its wildness some cowslips mysteriously colonised my front lawn many years ago, and with no encouragement beyond taking care to avoid them with...
Birds to Spot in Willoughby

Birds to Spot in Willoughby

by Willoughby Parish Council | May 11, 2017 | Natural History Page, Nature & Wildlife

I think I have identified over 40 species of bird in Willoughby in recent years, but I dare say that there are many residents, far more expert in ornithology, who could name many more. Of all the vertebrate wild animal life, it is probably the birds which attract the...
Signs of Autumn in Willoughby

Signs of Autumn in Willoughby

by Willoughby Parish Council | Apr 12, 2017 | Autumn, Natural History Page, Nature & Wildlife

“To autumn” by John Keats (1792-1821) must surely be one of the most quoted poems in English, with its “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”. But what of our local natural history in autumn, and of its fruitfulness?  As drivers we’re not always pleased to see the...
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