Williamson's Weekly Nature Notes
WAS there ever such a year for berries? I don't remember one.
That fine dry spell in March and early April that lasted into the first week of May brought out the bees and the flies in full pollinating humour, and every hip, haw, hazel, aril and mast was set for summer.
What a feast.
November snow in the east brought in the redwings and fieldfares ad they cleared all the yew arils by the first week of December.
Flocks of chaffinches rise from under every beech tree, especially on roads where cars have smashed open that rectangular seed.
For full feature see West Sussex Gazette December 19