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> I live at the park end of Henslowe Road and have

> recently heard what I think is a little owl

> calling at night. I recall reading somewhere that

> a pair were sighted in Peckham Rye Park in the

> last year or two. Has anyone else seen/heard them?


Yes, I've heard them occasionally, particularly in the last 5 years or so, around One Tree Hill. Not nearly as frequently as Tawny Owls.

So I've just been participating in the Great British Birdwatch and noted down robins, great and blue tits and wood pigeons, but there is one bird which came very briefly to the feeder which I've never seen before. It had a black cap and fawny brown body with no distinctive features apart from the head, about the same size as great tit. Does anyone have any ideas of what it could be? I'm in Donkey Alley and Dawson Heights is at the back.

I've just read this article, and I'm wondering what people have noticed locally re the increasingly earlier flowering of plants in their gardens and elsewhere.


I was at Kew yesterday and they are certainly seeing it there.


The knock on effects on insects and then birds is very alarming.


https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/02/flowers-arriving-month-early-uk-climate-heats-up-bloom-insects-birds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other


This link from the above article also suggests what plants we can plant in our gardens to help the situation:


https://www.rhs.org.uk/science/conservation-biodiversity/plants-for-bugs


I hope the trend for bare "gardens" with hardly any actual plants in them, let alone wildlife friendly plants, is on its way out.


Being around plants and trees and being able to see them from our windows is also very important for our own mental health, particularly in an urban environment where we increasingly have even the sky blocked out by high buildings and more and more loft extensions.

For anyone interested in recording life events of plants and animals, e.g, first blooms, leaves etc, woodland trust are always looking for recorders for their database. The information is helpful in tracking the changes in seasons. Go to naturescalendar.woodlandtrust.org

The hellebores in our garden are flowering like mad and I?ve seen a couple of small bumblebees. Which seemed odd, but having googled, apparently winter-active bumblebees are increasingly a thing?


https://www.bwars.com/content/winter-active-bombus-terrestris-data-gathering


Some interesting bumblebee info


https://www.nzbct.org.nz/bee-informed

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