Hello Acorn Club Members
The beautiful season of Autumn with its golden leaves and amazing fungi has made way for winter.
Here at Kelling Heath the wildlife has been busy getting ready for the dark, long winter days. The Nightjars have left to spend the winter in Africa and resident birds such as robins, wrens and blackbirds are feeding on the plentiful berries and seeds of trees and shrubs such as holly, hawthorn, rowan and blackthorn.
Beech, oak and hazel trees have hard seed cases and birds and squirrels store these in the ground. Sometimes they forget where they were hidden and the seeds germinate and grow.
If all is quiet, Red deer and the little Muntjac deer can be seen and heard barking in the woods.
Muntjac deer originated from China and Taiwan. They were brought to London Zoo in 1840. Since then many escapees have reproduced and the UK population has been estimated at about 40,000!
The Muntjac's favourite place to live is in bramble thickets in mixed woodland as we have here at Kelling Heath. They are browsers, and feed on shrubs, shoots and grass often causing damage by stripping bark from trees and destroying young vegetation – but we still love to see them.
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Compettion Summer 2007
Write a story - Draw a picture - Write a poem - Take a photograph
Thank you for all the wonderful competition entries
Winners included the Smith family from Rackheath, Norwich.
Their entries were wildlife themed collages, made with natural material found here at Kelling Heath Holiday Park. Very well done!
Ruby Douglas composed a charming book of poems telling of her happy holiday here at Kelling. Congratulations Ruby from all in the Countryside department
We all look forward to your entries next season and don’t forget that photographs of Kelling Heath wildlife and habitat can also be submitted. |
