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Discovering Nature
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Steve Homewood

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stevehomewood.com
Oct 8, 20211 min read
Not mush...room for error here!
It's that time of year again and if you listen to the video you will hear what, when and how to forage wild mushrooms and more...
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stevehomewood.com
Oct 7, 20212 min read
"It's not over yet...
During the past few weeks I was very lucky to have been at the right place at the right time and managed to get photos that I have been...
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stevehomewood.com
Sep 21, 20211 min read
Oct 2nd & 3rd Walks & Talks
http://www.homewardboundfestival.com/family-friendly/the-living-shoreline/ The Brighton Homeward Bound sponsored Walks & Talks on the 2nd...
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stevehomewood.com
Sep 20, 20212 min read
Black & White or Colour?
The image above was an easy choice. In true colour it was quite unattractive but somewhat interesting as, more by luck than judgement,...
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stevehomewood.com
Sep 17, 20211 min read
"There's something fishy going on here"
This is a short video will help explain just what's going at the moment in the sea between Newhaven and Seaford in Sussex. years ago it...
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stevehomewood.com
Sep 17, 20211 min read
The 'Living Shoreline' feeding frenzy.
I took this photo of a Mackerel chasing Whitebait though a breaking wave on Seaford beach yesterday. The wind was a stiff So'westerly...
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stevehomewood.com
Sep 13, 20211 min read
High as Kites?
You may know of this this unusual behaviour but many do not realise that Jackdaws roost with Rooks in their Rookeries at night and all...
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stevehomewood.com
Sep 8, 20211 min read
A 'Massacre' of Mackerel
As promised, after two long evenings I got what I was after! My Newhaven and Seaford 'Living Shoreline' and 'Reconnect to Nature' Walks...
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stevehomewood.com
Sep 7, 20211 min read
"If you go down to the beach today..
...your'e sure of a big surprize" Well, if you're lucky. The wonderful annual spectacle of the Mackerel attacking the Whitebait has...
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stevehomewood.com
Sep 5, 20211 min read
Reconnecting, Rewilding, and very rewarding...
Please forgive the catch phrases but it seemed appropriate. At last I was able to unofficially visit Kneep Estate near Horsham in Sussex...
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stevehomewood.com
Sep 1, 20212 min read
"Extra, Extra, read all about it"
Sponsored by Newhaven Festival, I am now able to offer; One to One or small groups on your choice of date and at a time to suit you!...
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stevehomewood.com
Aug 24, 20212 min read
Walks, talks and a Feeding frenzy
Good morning all, at last the sea is clear and calm again and just at the right time! Every year along the South Coast between September...
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stevehomewood.com
Aug 12, 20211 min read
Horror on the Hill?
There may be more to this than I understand... fingers crossed. Two weeks ago I discovered a large population of the rare and endangered...
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stevehomewood.com
Jul 24, 20211 min read
'Homewood's Harvest'
It's that time of year again... the Mackerel have arrived on the Sussex shores and it's time to refresh my memory from my battered copy...
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stevehomewood.com
Jun 9, 20211 min read
The magic of 'The Magic Hour'
When I was just 10 years old my Grandad took me out at 4am one summer's day and said... "Talk if you must but in a whisper, or you will...
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stevehomewood.com
May 30, 20211 min read
How to find 'Sleeping Beauty'
I waited and watched and waited some more, for a Painted Lady butterfly to settle on one of last years dried wild Marjoram flowers up on...
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stevehomewood.com
May 21, 20211 min read
Lunch for the Pied Wagtail chicks yesterday was the Bees knees...
...actually they were fed whole Bees, wholesale! Here's a little video I took using my car as a hide at Southease Railway station of one...
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stevehomewood.com
May 9, 20211 min read
When is a Spider not a spider?
When it's an Early Spider Orchid in need of pollination. Here in Sussex on the South Downs the orchid's only hope is a solitary Bee...
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stevehomewood.com
May 7, 20211 min read
'Ello, 'ello, 'ello! What's going on 'ere then?
...'ere being the operative word. Well actually 'hear' I watched this Great spotted woodpecker this morning after hearing it. Not pecking...
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*By the way, I took the background photo on this page just minutes before I taught reporter Simon Jenkins how to catch a Mackerel from the beach and hot smoke it over fennel seeds, live on The Morning Show.
The Gulls sounds and actions told me just weher and what the fish were doing.
Excerpts from my book 'Source to Sea' were then serialised over a week, along with recorded interviews
on BBC Radio Sussex telling the listeners some of the background to the stories within.
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