A new container was much needed to replace our old leaky and insecure one.
Funding for our new container was provided by East Hampshire District Councillors, Julie Butler, Bob Ayres and Ben Bentley, using their discretionary grant stream. This provided …
Intense autumn colour from a delicate heathland flower.
This attractive mauve-y blue pincushion is the flower of Devil’s-bit scabious, a real native heathland plant. It flowers when there is no other colour around save for autumn leaves changing. For this …
Five species of bat use Petersfield Heath for foraging.
At the end of a glorious day at Secrets of the Heath, Jane Willmott, from the Sussex Wildlife Trust, led a guided bat walk as the sun sank over the pond.…
Autumn-watch is upon us at Petersfield Heath.
At the end of August, Red Admiral butterflies gather, before they start to move south in preparation to head across the Channel. Along with this butterfly the Clouded Yellow and Painted Lady also …
Elegant sandpipers make their summer appearance.
The common sandpiper is a smallish wader with contrasting brown upperparts and white underparts. Though well camouflaged against mud and water, its curious habit of bobbing up and down, known as ‘teetering’, gets your …
A European species of beetle has been found on Petersfield Heath, alerting local ecologists and Friends of Petersfield Heath to our warming climate.
The presence of the beetle, Oedemera nobilis, also known as the thick-legged flower beetle, is not so …
