Help our Harvest Mice; Sponsor an Ealing mouse for £10
Our Ealing Wildlife Group Harvest Mouse reintroduction project has now run out of funds for ongoing running costs and needs your help. Can you sponsor a mouse for just £10? …
Eggs Soon Fledge
Our egg-citement over four eggs for the past month has made our live stream extremely popular with visitors from Japan to Australia and Argentina tuning in to watch Dusty sit …
Bees in British Folklore
No Mow May is a time to allow us to help our pollinator friends by leaving lawns and other grassy areas alone in order to boost the number of flowers, and thus …
Let it grow!
If you’re keen on wildlife, the growing clamour for “No Mow May” is hard to ignore. In this article, I look into the emergence of this movement, and consider its pros …
The marvels of migration: nature’s grand odyssey
Greetings, fellow nature enthusiasts! Hope you are all enjoying Spring rolling in as much as I am. It seems like every day I step outside there is something new to …
Grove Farm Nature Reserve
This month, we visit Grove Farm Nature Reserve, a hidden gem which provides 18 hectares of green space in North Greenford with a complex mosaic of habitats; woodland, grassland and …
A rare amphibian in Ealing?
Ealing is home to a population of a beautiful yet declining species of amphibian; the Great Crested Newt (Triturus cristatus) the largest of the three native newt species in the …
Hedgehog Highways project phase two kick-off
A big thank you to everyone who joined us at our recent Hedgehog habitat creation events. We held these in Northala Fields and Acton Park to kick off the second …
Brown Hairstreak eggs across the borough
There was great excitement in 2023 when a Brown Hairstreak butterfly (Thecla belulae) was spotted at Paradise Fields. The butterfly is hard to spot, and the males like to hang …
Our Peregrine pair have done it again!
After the saga of the Ealing Peregrines, I wrote last month, I promise to keep this article short(er)! We couldn’t have a newsletter all about eggs without mentioning the egg-xtraordinary …
