Urban Countryman Field Notes
This page contains my monthly fields notes taken from my diary of countryside observations and work carried out.
October 2022
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A month of changing colours and the perfect time to get out into the countryside.
This month's walks included local woodland, the North Downs and nearby Woldingham village.
October's work list includes chalk grassland management on the North Downs, Hooley Meadows and Woldingham's Long Hill.
This month's notes also contain recalling the Great Storm of 1987, Halloween history and tradition, why we should never dump unwanted pumpkins in the countryside and the love/hate relationship with the grey squirrel.
This month's walks included local woodland, the North Downs and nearby Woldingham village.
October's work list includes chalk grassland management on the North Downs, Hooley Meadows and Woldingham's Long Hill.
This month's notes also contain recalling the Great Storm of 1987, Halloween history and tradition, why we should never dump unwanted pumpkins in the countryside and the love/hate relationship with the grey squirrel.
September 2022
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September is the month that brings the start of both meteorological autumn (1st) and astronomical autumn (22nd).
It is the start of the main fungi season, especially in our woodlands, where they are appearing in ever-greater numbers.
This month's walks include: Sevenoak's Knole deer park, the Thames path at Richmond and the local North Downs woodland.
September's work list sees fallen trees cleared and glades maintained in Banstead Woods, and the brush-cutting of grazing enclosures in Kenley's Foxley Wood and on Chipstead Downs.
It is the start of the main fungi season, especially in our woodlands, where they are appearing in ever-greater numbers.
This month's walks include: Sevenoak's Knole deer park, the Thames path at Richmond and the local North Downs woodland.
September's work list sees fallen trees cleared and glades maintained in Banstead Woods, and the brush-cutting of grazing enclosures in Kenley's Foxley Wood and on Chipstead Downs.
August 2022
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A month that starts with the festival of Lammas, celebrating the harvest will be best remembered for parched grass, bone-dry ponds, hosepipe bans and praying for rain.
This month's walks include: Woldingham, Warlingham, Farleigh, Westerham and the River Chess Valley (along the Chiltern Way).
August in the countryside sees the continuation of construction tasks, including steps at Gangers Hill along the North Downs Way, Chipstead village and Whyteleafe Recreation Ground, as well as repairing signposts, gates and fences.
August ends with the first of the annual meadow brush-cuts: removing the invasive scrub from the grazing enclosure along Coulsdon's Happy Valley.
This month's walks include: Woldingham, Warlingham, Farleigh, Westerham and the River Chess Valley (along the Chiltern Way).
August in the countryside sees the continuation of construction tasks, including steps at Gangers Hill along the North Downs Way, Chipstead village and Whyteleafe Recreation Ground, as well as repairing signposts, gates and fences.
August ends with the first of the annual meadow brush-cuts: removing the invasive scrub from the grazing enclosure along Coulsdon's Happy Valley.
July 2022
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June 2022
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May 2022
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April 2022
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March 2022
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February 2022
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January 2022
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