Nine intrepid members met in pouring rain with the occasional flash of lightning to stroll around the downland and admire the chalk grassland plants. Fortunately,…
I hope you like the new-look website – it has been a bit of a labour of love for me and so far it has…
On the 2nd June 2009 I was pottering about in the garden when I noticed an unusual bumblebee nectaring on the Geraniums. It was obviously…
The only recent monitoring of the birds in our Cholsey garden and meadow had been restricted to taking part in the RSBP’s Big Garden Birdwatch.…
Our recording of small mammals, at Red Cow in Cholsey, is almost entirely done by noting what lies beneath about 30 metal sheets. These are…
Reading and District Natural History Society are proud to announce that they have been awarded a National Lottery ‘Awards for All’ grant of £5475. The…
Yet again Tony Rayner’s little patch up in Cholsey has yeilded a huge number of reptiles. Today Tony reports that he counted 84 slow-worms under…
The RDNHS has many members who are active and spend a fair proportion of their leisure time out of doors. This is especially true in…
Tony Rayner regularly monitors the reptiles in and around his garden by examining tin sheets that he has scattered in the margins of fields and…
After a record warm and dry April this year we suffered what must be one of the wettest summers on record. This undoubtably had a…