Kent Wildlife Trust Volunteer
In our December instalment about Hothfield we focus on mosses and lichens on the reserve and how they stand out well in low winter light, ranging from dark velvet in the woods to almost neon feathery green in the bogs. Read on to find out more....
Long-time volunteer Margery Thomas explores what Hothfield Heathlands is like on a crisp November day.
Pigs and tree pipits have returned to the reserve. Hazel and Beech, the pair of Large Black pigs who in the winter made their mark on the small compartment below the concrete causeway, returned to that fenced-in compartment in mid-July continuing, as Area Manager Ian Rickards says, ‘their quest to snuffle across the site, creating bare ground, rooting up bracken and creating lots of opportunities for our wildlife to capitalise on’.
In our December instalment about Hothfield we focus on mosses and lichens on the reserve and how they stand out well in low winter light, ranging from dark velvet in the woods to almost neon feathery green in the bogs. Read on to find out more....
