With the continuing hot and dry weather it has been a very good year for the wonderful silver-washed fritillary butterfly in East Meon, amongst many others butterfly species. This is a large and very decorative butterfly with a graceful swooping flight. This year they have been spotted in Hen Wood, Read more…
As the weather warms and their food plants mature the local butterfly numbers are steadily increasing. EM Nature runs a regular butterfly transit (walk) that reports sitings to the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, from 1 April to the end of September. Today, June 30, marbled whites (46) and ringlets (50) Read more…
East Meon Nature has been working on the stony ground north of the sports pavilion to try and turn it into a wildflower area. This is going to take some time, but as the pictures shows, some progress is being made. Oxeye daisy is quite prominent at the moment along Read more…
The Bourne that flows out of the spring fed pond to the north of Duncombe Wood, and then flows north to the corner of Coombe Road near the village, has just run dry. It did not run dry at all in 2021 due to a wet late spring and summer. Read more…
There is a magnificent showing of narrow leaved helleborines ( Cephalanthera longifolia) in Chappets Copse at the moment. This has one of the largest population of these rare orchids in the UK. There are four single ones in the northern bank of the Bereleigh Road if you are walking up that Read more…
Pictured is the rather unusual fruit of the wych elm. This picture was taken of a branch of the junior tree next to great wych elm in Halnacker Lane. After dutch elm disease, these trees are very rare so we are lucky to have a couple in the parish
Swallows have arrived back in East Meon this week, after their epic journey from southern Africa. The are around two weeks later than last year, when they were first seen on 6 April.
The Tree Working group (TWIG) met on 21 April to start preliminary work on their projects of hedge planting on the Recreation Ground (boundary beside the High Street) and Workhouse Lane (boundary with the Village Green).
Wild flower walks with Helen Boyce, naturalist and author, at Noar Hill Nature Reserve, Selborne. Helen would be delighted to take individuals or small groups of 2-3 people around Noar Hill in June, showing and teaching them about the beautiful and abundant chalk downland wild flowers found there, including various orchids. She Read more…
The EMN’s TWIG Group launches its new poster. More information to come!