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Fungi on the Moor
A lot of fungi can be found everywhere at the moment (Autumn 2024). Those in the photo were spotted on Hameldown. The colours are amazing. How many varieties can you spot while you are out walking? Which ones are ‘magic mushrooms’? (Don’t spend all your time looking down though — if you do you’ll miss…
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Slow Worms
We were uncovering an area of our vegetable patch recently that we had protected with some black plastic and underneath were two slow worms and a toad. No doubt they were enjoying the protection and warmth that the plastic might have offered plus a (seemingly) unlimited supply of slugs and snails that always seem to…
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A Lovely Beetle, But What Species?
Spotted this beetle in the field. Not particularly rare, I am sure, but good to see. A beautiful iridescent blue colouring. Can you identify it? I have looked it up online but could not find an exact match.
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Deer – A Common Site
Deer are a frequent visitor to the areas around the East Webburn. In fact, they must live there permanently, moving up and down the valley as they are disturbed, little affected by field boundaries. They are always hard to photograph. this is a recent one:
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Widecombe Nature Notes
Recent notes about nature and wildlife around Widecombe are to be found in the posts, listed below, with earlier items listed in the section lower down the page. Posts: Earlier Nature Notes: Date Title Description July 2017 Pennywort Amazed at this pennywort in one of our walls. It is at least 25 centimetres tall. May…
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Things New and Old Item 26: Snow on the Moor
This is the twenty-sixth item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876) Back to Contents List Snow on the Moor THE winters of 1814 and 1820 were remarkable for severity and for the depth of snow which fell on Dartmoor. Amongst the fatal accidents was…
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Things New and Old Item 24: Dartmoor Ferns
This is the twenty-fourth item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876) DARTMOOR FERNS. THE many fern-hunters amongst our readers will thank us for reproducing the following from Cassell’s Magazine :—The common kinds of ferns—common only in the sense of being plentiful—are tobe found almost…