tales from quarry wood
Writings by Paul Johnson, Warden of Crowhurst Nature Reserve
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2008-9
Where has all the Water gone?
Fabulous Ferns
Lammas, Mabon and Samhain
Alpha & Omega
Winter Clarity
Dawn’s Chorus
Sprung Beds and Egyptian Stuffing
Seasonal Colour & Friendly Foxes
Building with Light
Damsels & Dragons
What have the Romans done for us?
What’s in a Name?
2010-11
A Decade of Trees
The Big Sleep
Spring Watch 2010
Aliens that laugh in the night
Wind flowers, Swiss butter & sleeping Greeks
River Hags and Cattle Feed
Blowin’ in the Wind
Life, the Woodlands and Everything
Meles meles
Autumn Colour and Festive Greenery
Cookbooks, Chemists and Catwalks
Flaccid Foliage & Frisky Foxlings
Poseidon’s Offspring
A Taste for Blood
Katia, Lucrezia, Titania & Flopsy
A Challenge to the Gods
Fiery Redcoats and Tiny Troglodytes
2012
The Wrong Sort
As Light as a Snowflake
Lucifer’s Bane
Cudgels and Clouts
Consummate Eco-Engineers
Food for Thought
A Success Story
Fungal Fatalities and Festive Fare
2013
Tales from the Beleaguered Lands
In Danger of Silencing Spring
Drums and Laughter
Then and Now
The Music of the Night
The Venerable, the Capricious and the Maladjusted
Fun in the Woods
A Question of Perspective
2014
Ne’er a Drop to Drink
Prince with a Thousand Enemies
Lemon Curd and Honey Bees
Conservation – A Brief History of Time
The Straight and Narrow
Celtic Fools and Cowpox
The Autumn Cometh 2014
A War to End All Wars
Walking in the Air
2015
Recollection and Déjà vu
The Helix Conundrum
The Amphibification of Fertility
Portents and Pollutants
Arboreal lights & disappearing coats
Dawn’s Cacophony
They fly by night
Candles, copters & colours
Prophesies from the Easterlies
2016
Here we go again!
Spines & Spots
Stripes for danger
Tempus Fugit
How is your lady wife today?
Two thousand and sixteen, thus far!
Making logs while the sun shines!
Jasper, beware!
Wassail!
2017
The Velvet Underground – Feb 2017
The Great, The Blue and The Long of Tail Or Carry On Birdwatching! – Mar 2017
Not so humble! – Apr 2017
Two Go Forth! – May 2017
The Bug of Many Names – June 2017
Artistic seats and the tiniest of giants – July 2017
The Summer of ’17 – Sept 2017
Celebrating the ton! – Nov 2017
A year in the life of a Reserve – Dec 2017
2018
Grey Clouds – Feb 2018
Green Clouds – Mar 2018
The Great Game – Apr 2018
Yellow Clouds and Purple Thorns – May 2018
Life on the surface – July 2018
Ten years of tales – Sept 2018
Beware the tick – Oct 2018
Christmas Kiss – Dec 2018
2019
Welcome to the Anthropocene! – Feb 2019
Old Nog and Goistering Daws – March 2019
Catkins form, the lion roars and crows take flight – Apr 2019
Ma Nature’s Palette – May 2019
The Twin Goddesses – June 2019
The Rains Came! – July 2019
Twenty years on! – Sept 2019
Two decades in a window! – Nov 2019
That was the year that was! – Dec 2019
2020
2020 Vision – Feb 2020
Storms, Spring and Strumming – March 2020
Ma Nature’s Holiday – June 2020
Unsettling times – July 2020
Dancing on the brink – Sept 2020
Measles & Macbeth – Oct 2020
Teamwork – Nov 2020
That was the year that was, reprise! – Dec 2020
2021
Raincoats & Redcoats – Feb 2021
Cold Feet & Wood Bine – March 2021
Reynard – Apr 2021
Golden Eye – May 2021
Snakes and Lizards – June 2021
The Singing Turdidae – July 2021
Rowers and Divers! – Sept 2021
Feeling Sluggish! – Nov 2021
End of a year, end of an era – Dec 2021
2022
The Appliance of Science – March 2022
The Vanishing Song – April 2022
Swift by Nature – May 2022
Jacks and Martins – June 2022
Fading Colour – July 2022
Things that glow rump in the night – Sept 2022
The True Time Lords – November 2022
Finish the year with Fungi! – December 2022
2023
Challenging times – February 2023
Don’t leaf me hanging! – March 2023
Top of the Avian Pops – April 2023
Horrible Hayfever – May 2023
In the Summertime – June 2023
Malta & Moths – July 2023
Life ‘neath the Jet Stream – September 2023
A Brief History: before 1999 – October 2023
A Brief History: since 1999 – November 2023
Quarry Wood Biodiversity – December 2023
2024
Rabbits & Romans, Slugs & Shakespeare – February 2024
Triffids & Toads, Violets & Vikings – March 2024
Finishing with a Greek God – April 2024
Spring has Sprung – May 2024
Full list of articles
Sherlock Holmes in Crowhurst
The Mystery of the Purple Emperor – 1909
The Butterfly Spy – 1913
The Seventeen Arches – 1922
Biodiversity
Ferns
Fungi
Quarry Wood Fungi Gallery
Quarry Wood Fungi Species List
The Quarry Wood Fungi Dome
inaturalist
Moss
Pond View
Wildlife Gallery
Trees & shrubs – gallery
Wildflowers
Wildflower Gallery
Wildflower gallery list
Moths
Moth Species List
Moth Spotting 02/08/19
Moth Spotting 26/04/19
Moth Spotting 26/08/18
Moth Spotting 15/04/18
Moth Spotting 29/10/17
Moth Spotting 07/05/17
Moth Spotting 26/06/16
Moth Spotting 13/09/15
Moth Spotting 19/07/15
Quarry Wood Plant List 2018
Quarry Wood Plant List 2012
Insect List 2005
Bird List 2004-5
Fungi List 2004-5
Plant List 2002
Events
Open Day 13/10/19
Dragonfly & Butterfly Walk 21/07/19
Woodland Arts Festival 24/09/17
Dragonfly and Butterfly Walk 15/07/17
The Story of Crowhurst Nature Reserve
Bluebell Walk 23/04/16
Christmas Working Party 13/12/15
Fungi Trail 11/10/15
Bluebell Walk 27/04/14
Family Fun Day 06/10/13
The Woodland Festival 2002
Working party
Gallery
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Jan – Mar 2017
April – June 2017
July – Sept 2017
Oct – Dec 2017
2016 pics
Spring 2016
Summer 2016
Autumn 2016
2015 pics
Spring 2015
Summer 2015
Autumn 2015
2008-14 pics
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