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July 2017 Newsletter – Cornwall Nature Conservancy
The first thrill of July is how well little Frankie the fox is doing. He is already the centre of a short story posted so I will not repeat anything other than he goes from strength to strength, eating well and growing, but calm. On the First of July, Duncan...
May & June 2017 Newsletter – Lynx cubs born at Cornwall Nature Conservancy
May and June and more than half of July has gone in a flash. Cherry and I have had a lot on and so much has happened at the Conservancy. On the 2nd May we went to stay in the New Forest for a few days. On that day we heard our first Cuckoo and saw only our 3rd Swallow...
Frankie the Fox
Our new vet asked us to pop in and see Frankie. He was tiny, reddish brown, flat out and on a drip. Apparently, he had been knocked a glancing blow by a car. When a car and a fox collide, especially a maybe 6-week-old cub, there tends to be only one winner and one...
Tony’s memoirs – No 4, Reminiscences of Beesands
When I was very young, well before my teens, my family used to holiday in a static caravan sited at a tiny fishing village called Beesands in the South Hams of Devonshire. At the time my family; mother, father, sister, and I were living in Sussex and we used to leave very soon after midnight to arrive in Devon early. Beesands, which used to live entirely from the sales of crab, was a tiny bay with a huge lighthouse at the western end.
April 2017 Newsletter – Spring has Sprung with lots of babies!
April, being a wonderful spring month started with a bang! On the first day of the month, a Soay lamb was born followed by two more the next day. They are delightful. A further lamb was born to our youngest ewe – she was a bit surprised and failed to feed it. The...
Tonys Memoirs No 3 – Foxy Behaviour
In August 2006 friends of ours who live in the New Forest brought us a young male blind fox.
They had looked after it for some months but had no permanent long-term home for the cub.
March 2017 Newsletter – Palma Wallaby, Storks & Spring!
March started with a bang! Early in the month we said goodbye to our now well grown male Fishing Cat as he went off to his new home in the Axe Valley. Along with him went two young Azara Agouti and seven Harvest Mice. Our friend Andy, who owns the Wildlife Park...
A nostalgic trip to Jersey Zoo and Gerald Durrell
We both recently visited Jersey. I was returning after 50 years and Cherry had never visited before. We were mainly there to pay a visit to Jersey Zoo where I remember Gerald Durrell, half a century ago, taking two baby Gorilla’s into his flat to keep them warm and...
Stella’s Story – the serval kitten who survived against the odds
The story of Stella a badly wounded serval kitten who with 24 hour care miraculously survived.
February 2017 Newsletter – bird boxes, pygmy goats and wallabies
Rab, our man on enclosures and maintenance has made and erected over 30 bird boxes of different styles in February. Several Owl boxes, often used initially by Jackdaws, some Woodpecker and Starling boxes and some various Tit boxes with holes suitable for Blue Tits and...
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