Today along the river

A fine day with the river bank alive! Warbler fledgelings now fending for themselves with abundant insect food in the undergrowth and riverside trees - whilst the adults start second broods in ideal conditions. Blackcap, chiffchaff, willow warbler, reed warbler and whitethroat juveniles and adults all present with fledged juvenile blackcaps still being fed by attentive adults. Most are quiet today, apart from the bouncing whitethroats.

SMALL SKIPPER butterfly in the long grass

Damselflies - Beautiful Demoiselle and Banded Demoiselle, bees - honeybees, bumblebees - white-tailed, red-tailed, bombus terrestris, ladybirds - mainly 7 spot and butterflies all active along the river in the sunshine and dappled shade together with numerous spiders spinning webs across the river vegetation.
Butterflies present included Small Tortoiseshell, Small Skipper, Red Admiral, Ringlet, Large White, Small White, Holly Blue, Small Copper and Meadow Brown.

Website address for Hills Farm Conservation Group

HILLS FARM CONSERVATION GROUP website

This contains pages with page titles running at the top of each page. Click on TO DO LIST to find out the date of our next meet or NEWS to find out the latest on the Development. This blog will contain more day-to-day features on the Riverside.

News from Hills Farm Conservation Group

The present website for the Group may be replaced by this blog at some time in the future, meanwhile this will be an addition to it, so please look at both!

Latest news to hit West Horsham wildlife was not good - the serious incident of pollution of the river Arun somewhere downstream of the Broadbridge Heath Southern Water water-treatment works. For the latest on this - see the County Times website . There will be a report in this Thursday's edition (23rd June).
Fortunately 'our' stretch of the river was not affected.

                                            Peacock butterfly on sunny riverbank nettles