Shapwick and Ham Wall, Saturday 5 February 2022

Shapwick and Ham Wall, Saturday 5 February 2022

by | Feb 7, 2022 | Uncategorised

Leader: Lucy Starling I was joined by 13 members on a bright and breezy morning for 5 hours of birding in this wonderful wetland habitat. The 2 hours or so before lunch were spent on the Shapwick NNR and we saw and heard a good variety of species, the first notable...

Parasitic Plants, Tuesday 1 February

by | Feb 4, 2022 | Uncategorised

Speaker: Fred Rumsey Fred Rumsey began his excellent talk by ‘wowing us’ with a few photos of extraordinary and diverse kinds of parasitic plant before defining their essential features. First, they derive their nutrition from a host, with varying amounts of...