A handful of notes from a week’s walking in the New Forest and on the Hampshire coast — small wildlife observations of the kind that quietly make a year.
17 April 2022 — Milford on Sea, New ForestSea thrift growing on a cliff. The first flush of pink on the chalk-grass slopes, holding tight where most plants will not.
19 April 2022 — Bath, UKRed mason bees spotted foraging in the garden on Salvia rosmarinus. Among the first of the solitary bees out in the warm weeks, working the rosemary flowers steadily through the afternoon.
17 April 2022 — Lymington Salt Marshes, New ForestBrimstone moth spotted in the grass. Earlier in the year than expected — the yellow worth stopping for.
