Welcome to Tim Willey's New Site

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Over the coming days and weeks I'll be building solely on this new site. Its focus will be mainly on material ecology but will also include day-to-day escapades in 'Tales from the Woods'. 

I hope it will prove a useful and entertaining resource. Please drop by again soon. 



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Green Tiger Beetle

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  At Last! After searching for years amongst Norfolk's many heathland paths, I've spotted my first tiger beetle.  And where did I find it: on the edge of the wood as I was putting in a field gate! Quite a large colony; I spotted several over the course of the day and I'm wondering if they've been here all the time or established themselves after clearing  a large stand of conifers  and replanting with broadleaf? Before the commercial conifer plantation was set in the 1960's this area was predominantly a mixed heathland, with birch and gorse together with scattered oak and sweet chestnut.  Now it seems that the heathland community is re-establishing itself.  The gorse is back along with birches, linnets and mining bees.  And now we have the green tiger beetle.  What next? Let's hope for a nightjar!
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