WATER VOLE REINTRODUCTION IN COOKHAM AND MAIDENHEAD : HOBBY IN COOKHAM

Thursday 24 July 2014

HOBBY IN COOKHAM

I HAD A VERY INTERESTING BIKE RIDE TODAY BETWEEN MY HOUSE IN MAIDENHEAD AND COOKHAM TODAY. OTHER THAN THE USUAL BIRDS I SAW A HOBBY, TREE CREEPER AND LITTLE EGRET. THEN WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO SEE A MALE FALLOW DEER SITTING IN THE SHADE.
I AM OFF TO THE GLOW WORM AND BAT EVENING IN COOKHAM TONIGHT.

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Duncan Yearley

My name is Duncan Yearley and I was bought up in Cookham and llived in Westwood Green where I was one of 5 boys. My sister Heather died at an early age. My brothers and I went to various schools in the area including Holy Trinity Primary School, Furze Platt Secondary and The Grammar School.
Living in cookham our playing fields used to include many of the nature sites including the area around the old Strand Castle, Widbrook Common, The Brick kilns in Pinkneys green and many other areas.
In the sixties and seventies there were many more species of wildlife that we would come across than you can find now. In particular the water vole used to be present in great numbers and now they have all gone.
Other wildlife included tree sparrows, hares, grass snakes, slow worms, lizards, shrews, voles and other birds like the water rale, bull finch and little grebe. These species have all but disappeared in the area.

WATER VOLE REINTRODUCTION IN COOKHAM AND MAIDENHEAD

Water Vole

Thursday 24 July 2014

HOBBY IN COOKHAM

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