Blog | Foxglove Covert Local Nature Reserve

New Buds and New Lake

All around the buds are starting to break. Green shoots are showing on the Bird Cherry and pink buds on this Blackthorn.….

Today, in positively spring-like weather, fourteen volunteers worked all day on the Willow coppice. This area is almost….

254 birds were caught by the bird ringers at Foxglove today. As well as several Common/Mealy Redpoll (Carduelis flammea)….

Sixteen people turned up in the snow for our second work day of this year. Although the snow was falling early….

There is always plenty of activity at Foxglove and today work was going on all over the site. Down towards….

Today we had a visit from the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust. Nineteen people from all over the region came for a….

Out of the blue Sheila, Judith and Janet (from left to right below) from The Parish, which is the Church and Community Magazine….

Some of the bird ringers made the most of yesterday's sunshine at a nearby ringing site where this juvenile male Sparrowhawk….

As the sun broke through the clouds bringing warmth to the reserve the long winter silence was broken. As if on cue….