May
Spring Sprang.
Tasks such as stone-burying and hand-clearance continued,
but the highlight of the month was the emerging life.
Flowers are blooming
Rockrose
Cinquefoil
Annual wallrocket
Life emerging
Bee on cotoneaster
Roe deer
small blue butterflies
Meadow grasshopper
Ground beetle
a fly
Female Orange tip
Common blue
Green hairstreak
Paulsgrove Chalk Pit - 6th May
The base of the chalk pit at Paulsgrove has an unusual and unnatural feature, being a pond in chalk.
As chalk is both porous and permeable, water does not often collect in it, but runs straight through until it meets an impermeable seal.
In Paulsgrove, the quarrying of chalk created vast amounts of dust which settled at the base of the site. Here, it formed a calcareous clay with grains are sufficiently fine to form a seal, thereby retaining water.
Newt in Paulsgrove chalkpit pond
Water crowfoot
General BAU
Informatory boards are placed around the site - while dumped vhicles are taken off.
