Links on the Web

 

Here are a small number of links that you may find interesting after your visit to my garden.
The last minor update was on 3 January 2007. It may change from time to time so keep on checking it.

The page desperately needs reconstruction - A job for a wet winter's day perhaps!

When you select a link it will appear in a new window which may hide this window.


Local weather conditions:

 

 

The current Met Office five day forecast for Aldershot

Aldershot Weather Station (Peter Benney's Weather Pages)

Weather at Farnborough airfield (about 5km, 3 miles north of us)


Brickfields Countryside Park

 

http://brickfieldspark.org/index.htm


A new, and excellent website for 2008 dedicated to House Martins by John in Berkshire

http://martinwatch.co.uk

A super Nestbox diary and webcam in nearby Farnham, with lots of video clips
by Andy and Jane

 www.nestwatch.info

A new Nestbox Diary  for 2006 in Hertfordshire, complete with webcam and video clips
by Martin and Sarah

 http://the2wrennies.co.uk/

The disabled Forest of Dean Birders site


http://www.deanbirders.co.uk

A diary of life in the woods of Maine in the NE united States

By Laurie and Drew


http://mainenaturediary.com/

A new diary of life in a very small garden in Ijmuiden, Holland

By Shirley Obrien


http://www.mywildlifefriendlygarden.com

A Staffordshire Garden Diary, with a Canine and Continental flavour
by Gareth Evans

http://www.wildlifewebcam.co.uk

A diary of Wildlife in and around a garden in Rossendale - a wilder part of Britain

By Steve


http://www.wildrossendale.co.uk

A diary chronicling the  transformation of a garden into a meadow (with lots of useful advice) - situated in South Wales,near Kefig National Nature Reserve, where the site's creator works in countryside management

By Dave

http://www.gardenmeadow.co.uk

A Scottish Diary about a garden which is a lot tidier than mine, and the birds that visit it

By Shirley

http://blog.shirlsgardenwatch.co.uk

Littlecote Nature Reserve -

Another small garden is transformed into a nature reserve with a good helping of humour

by Charlie and Joe

http://www.roobyred.typepad.com/littlecote/

A Photographic record of Insects in the Belgian countryside
by Philippe Moniotte

http://www.entomopix.eu/

Great Tit webcam in Ipswich
By Andrew and Alison Damant
www.36badgers.co.uk


A Nest Box diary in the south of Hampshire:
 
by Rod Ormston
 

http://www.zebedee88.clara.co.uk/


A Blue Tit nest box diary at Mayford near Woking, Surrey:
by Elizabeth and Malcolm Bigg
http://www.biggonline.co.uk/

A Blue Tit Diary for 2003:
by Eddy Bayton and the The Friends of Christ Church School, Lancaster
 http://www.eddy.bayton.btinternet.co.uk/birdbox.htm

Blue tits at The University of Surrey (about 8 miles from here):
monitored by David Jefferies
 http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/D.Jefferies/bird/roost.html
 

Blue Tits, Badgers and Foxes:
A West Wales site by David and Viv Hall

 

www.daviv.com/bird_box_diary.htm

 

A Blue Tit site in Northern Ireland:
where Andy Harrison has a camera in his bird box, and the sea perilously close to the garden!

 http://www.ajharrison.co.uk

A nest box site  in Edinburgh, Scotland:
 
by John Agnew
http://thebirdcam.co.uk

Birds of Britain:
The Monthly Web Magazine For Birdwatchers
 http://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/index.htm

A Birding site by Andrew McCafferty:
with info about bird watching in the Lancaster area
 http://www.classaves.co.uk/

For a very comprehensive international list of nesting bird sites go to

http://mysite.verizon.net/vdziadosz/

International Birding/Wild Birds including Webcam listings :
 http://birding.about.com/hobbies/birding/
Surrey Amphibian and Reptile Group (SARG) http://www.surrey-arg.org.uk

A site dedicated to pond life: by Andy Roberts
 www.smallpond.org.uk

Nature Notes:
Observations of nature in Lancing, West Sussex
http://lancingnature.blogspot.com/

A photographic record of a Shropshire garden's wildlife: by Nigel Jones,
 http://website.lineone.net/~nigin/miniature_jungle%20page.htm

A site that specialises in Ground Beetles and Ladybirds in London and Essex:
 by Paul Mabbott
 http://www.ladybird-survey.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

British Butterflies:
A site where Steven Cheshire has coupled his interest in photographing butterflies with an impressive commercial enterprise.
 
http://www.britishbutterflies.co.uk

 

An Encyclopaedia of British Butterflies:

 
http://www.users.waitrose.com/~aroakley/index.htmindex.htm


Some Bumblebee sites:

 

http://hercules.users.netlink.co.uk/Bee.html
http://members.aol.com/beetools/bumble.htm
http://www.mearns.org.uk/mrssmith/bees/index.htm


A very informative site about bees and pollination in the USA, with lots of related links.

 
http://www.pollinator.com/

Wildflower Links for gardeners :

 
http://www.wildflowerlinks.co.uk

Flora-for-fauna native species checklist :


http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science/projects/fff/(Post code checklist)

Local Biological Records Centre serving the Cheshire region :



 
http://www.rECOrd-LRC.co.uk


0ver the garden gate

An environmentally friendly, interactive UK gardening cyber-community with a border for everyone.

Forum and Chat Room, Picture Album (add your own!), Gardening and wildlife information, archives and much more

 http://www.overthegardengate.net/

Countryside Law in England and Wales :
 

http://www.naturenet.net/law/

The Wildlife Trusts :


 
http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/