A new Nature Table website is being created. In the meantime you can still email us via talk2us@naturetable.co.uk or look us up at our Facebook group, just search for "naturetable". Send us any comments about recent events,check for news or upload pictures of your own discoveries or mystery finds. Best wishes from Jenny and Mike.
Upcoming Events
Rock Pooling at St Margaret's - Friday 15th April 2011- 2.00pm map
Pond Dipping at Bushy Ruff (Kearsney Abbey) - Wednesday 20th April 2011 - 2.00pm map
Pond Dipping at Bushy Ruff (Kearsney Abbey) - Monday 30th May 2011 - 2.00pm map
check final details with White Cliffs Countryside Project
Seashore and Rock Pools
A wealth of natural history in the smallest of rock pools.
Pond Life
Exploring the freshwater environment
Porcelain crab - small crabs with characteristic velvety covering. Copt Point, Folkestone
Water Louse - Acellus Common in all ponds. These crustaceans are part of the cleaning and recycling processes in the freshwater ecosystem. Bushy Ruff, Dover.
Common Frog - Rana rana. These amphibians like shallow sections of water to lay their spawn in the spring. Reed Pond, Canterbury
Photo Days
Digital or film cameras used andexplained. Close-up techniques, landscapes and nature portraits.
Moth Trapping
Special lights to attract moths, identification and ecology
Dover cliffs viewed from National Trust Centre looking towards St Margaret's at Cliffe.
Swan and cygnets - Bushy Ruff, Dover
Garden Tiger - once a common site in gardens, this beautiful moth is now in decline. Sandwich, Kent
Fungus Forays
Discover a variety of fungi in their specialist habitats
Mini-beast Safari
Grassland, woodland, hedgerows and leaf litter
Inkcap - Spinney Wood, Aylesham
Aged coppice stumps covered in fungi - Spinney Wood, Aylesham
Common Blue Damsel-fly - Bysing Wood, Faversham
Squash bug - on bramble, St Martin's Battery, Dover