Further Afield

Sarah Marshall

Jul 9, 20191 min read

Hiatus

Looking back, I can’t believe my last entry here was in February! Since then, family health issues and general life stuff have kept me...

Sarah Marshall

Dec 31, 20182 min read

A visit to Burtonwood Nature Park

A while ago I stumbled across a page for a place called Burtonwood Nature Park on Facebook. The photos on the page looked amazing, with...

Sarah Marshall

Dec 30, 20183 min read

Red Squirrels at Hawes – December 2018

Once again time has flown by and it’s over a month since my last entry! I have a few queued up to write and meant to do these through...

Sarah Marshall

Sep 30, 20183 min read

Formby Red Squirrels

As it’s Red Squirrel Awareness Week, it struck me that now would be a very appropriate time to talk about one of my favourite places to...

Sarah Marshall

Sep 14, 20184 min read

Badger Watching

Stumbling across an uneven, tussocky field after dark, clutching my camera and a bean bag leaving no spare hands for a torch is not my...

Sarah Marshall

Aug 29, 20183 min read

A Hard Time for Honeybees – and our Wild Bees too

For the first time since we began beekeeping 8 years ago, our Honeybees are showing signs of starvation. At the beginning of July we...

Sarah Marshall

May 8, 20173 min read

A Day at the Seaside

A conversation with a fellow bee fan on Twitter led us to Ainsdale Beach on the hot and sunny Easter weekend. Ainsdale Beach is part of...