Sim Elliott
Autumn Landscapes and Colours: Hastings Country Park NR; Hastings to Fairlight. 03.11.21
This post records, in images only, the walk I made from Hastings to Fairlight through the Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve. The...
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Sim Elliott
Sep 26, 20214 min read
A second trip to RSPB Pagham Harbour: the glory of Cattle Egrets and some Yellow Wagtails 25.09.21
On Saturday 25.09.21 I returned to Pagham Harbour as I so enjoyed seeing the Cattle Egrets on Tuesday 22.09.21. This time I took my...
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Sim Elliott
Sep 26, 20218 min read
Tring Natural History Museum & College Lake NR: Taxidermy, Ivy Bees & a Red Kite 22.09.21
On Tuesday 22nd September I visited Tring National History Museum, after reading The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson On a cool...
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Sim Elliott
Sep 13, 20214 min read
Birds. Cuckmere Haven. 10.09.21.
After searching for Sea Aster Bees on Friday (click here t read about the Sea Asters I found) I had a look around for birds. I walked...
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Sim Elliott
Sep 11, 202115 min read
Pollinators and Wild Flowers. Seaford Head and Cuckmere Haven. 08.09.21. A Clouded Yellow
This post is a record of a walk from Seaford Head to Cuckmere Haven (with a detour up the path at Hope Bottom, as Hope Bottom is well...
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Sim Elliott
Sep 9, 20218 min read
Butterflies (and a family of Spotted Flycatchers) on Chantry Hill, West Sussex. 06.09.21
I went for a walk with my friend to Chantry Hill, near Storrington; with the intention of spotting Butterflies, as it is highlight in The...
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Sim Elliott
Sep 3, 202110 min read
On Bumblebee Surveying: values, meaning, purpose and pleasure. Dungeness 01.09.21.
I experienced a high sense of well-being on Wednesday when I spent the day bumblebee surveying (and doing a little bit of bird watching);...
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Sim Elliott
Sep 2, 20219 min read
Balsdean & Castle Hill: a Raven, many autumnal wild flowers, and a juvenile Buzzard. 30.08.21
On Monday 30.08.21 I walked from Rottingdean (up the path next to the Whiteway Centre). via Balsdean, Castle Hill, the South Downs Way to...
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Sim Elliott
Aug 26, 202111 min read
A walk from Holywell to Beachy Head. 25.08.21. Wild Flowers, Butterflies, LandArt and Winchats.
On Wednesday 25.08.21, after visiting the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne, I walked to Beachy Head via Holywell (The Kiosk on map below),...
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Sim Elliott
Aug 24, 20213 min read
RSPB Pagham Harbour. 23.08.21 Juvenile Cattle Egrets and an Osprey
I started my walk at the Ferry Pool. I then walked on the north side of the Ferry Channel; then along the path to Sidelsham Quay; then...
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Sim Elliott
Jul 19, 202113 min read
East Suffolk Nature Reserves Part 2: 15.07.21-17.07.21: Hazelwood Marsh, Snape, Dunwich, Warberswick
Click here to view Part 1 Wednesday 14.07.21 Aldeburgh to Saxmundham via Hazelwood Marsh Nature Reserve (Suffolk Wildlife Trust) and...
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Sim Elliott
Jul 18, 20215 min read
East Suffolk Nature Reserves Part 1: 12.07.21-13.07.21 North Warren, Minsmere
Click here to view Part 2 From Monday 12.07.21 to Saturday 17.07.21 I visited a series of bird and natures sanctuaries in the Suffolk...
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Sim Elliott
Jul 1, 20216 min read
Cissbury Ring: Yellowhammers; Linnets; Goldfinches; Stonechats, 30.06.21
Cissbury Ring (Natural Trust) is just north of Worthing and east of Findon. How to get to Old Lodge by bike: I reached Cissbury Ring by...
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Sim Elliott
Jun 30, 202110 min read
Old Lodge NR, Ashdown Forest; heathland & woodland habitat: Redstarts & Spotted Flycatchers 29.06.21
Old Lodge (Sussex Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve) is in Ashdown Forest, west of Crowborough/ How to get to Old Lodge by public transport:...
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Sim Elliott
Jun 25, 20215 min read
Chichester Canal: a walk from Chichester to Birdham, 23.06.21
This was a new walk to me, and the walk was suggested by a friend as an opportunity to see Dragonflies & Damselflies (it was). It was...
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Sim Elliott
Jun 17, 20219 min read
Pett Level to Winchelsea, via Pett Pools, the Royal Military Canal & the Pannel Valley 17.06.21
I started this walk at Pett Level/Cliff End at 12.10 the end of the Fairlight Cliffs, just east of Hastings. (I got the train from...
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Sim Elliott
Jun 17, 20212 min read
Medmerry/Bracklesham Bay to East Head/West Wittering, 14.06.21 - Ringed Plover Chicks
On Monday 14.06.21 I walked between the east side of RSPB Medmerry to East Head at West Wittering, along the south coast of the Manhood...
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Sim Elliott
Jun 13, 20219 min read
Chichester to West Wittering (Chichester Harbour/The Manhood Peninsular) 11.06.21
The orange line shows the route I took. I started at Chichester Cathedral at 9.30 and walked down West Gate to Fishbourne. I walked...
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Sim Elliott
May 24, 20215 min read
RSPB Pagham Harbour 22.05.21: Ringed Plovers and Dunlins
On this visit I walked from the Visitors Centre to Sidlesham Quay, past Halsey's Farm to the North Wall then on to Salthouse, past...
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Sim Elliott
May 21, 20213 min read
25 View of Dungeness
I have always loved Dungeness because of it's geometrical panoramas; for the horizontality and verticality that flat seascapes afford....
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