Hello and welcome to the January - March edition of the 'Countryside Volunteers Newsletter'!
The wettest October since 1903 and the rain doesn’t look like easing! This was then followed by plummeting temperatures and the ground hardening like concrete from a ground frost. I always think about the Goldcrests and Wren's of this world in such terrible conditions. How such small birds, sometimes weighing less than a twenty pence piece, survive through such weather is truly remarkable.
Our water meadows at Itchen Valley have become completely unpassable! Hopefully the water will dissipate before fencing season begins! Despite all the rainfall the volunteers have worked incredibly hard and all of our management is currently on track!
Here are some fun time Fungi photos from Itchen Valley Country Park's woodland nature reserve: