Live nature cams at Clandon Wood

We carefully and unobtrusively set up live web cams in nesting boxes or habitats we have built to attract specific birds or creatures that choose Clandon Wood as their home for breeding and nesting. These cameras are installed and set up in advance of the breeding seasons so as to cause no interference. Then at the beginning of the breeding season each webcam is transmited live on a 24 hour a day basis onto this website allowing anyone to enjoy and watch these animals raise and rear their young until they leave the nest; all in real time.

We currently have one camera installed in our specially constructed kestrel box. We are also planning to install further live webcams in other nesting boxes for owls and blue tits and hopefully in a hedgehog nesting box we have recently built.

There are currently no birds nesting in the kestrel box and so there is no live link. We will let you know as soon as any of our habitats with cameras installed have breeding or nesting creatures so you watch them live.

What to look out for across Clandon Wood in September:

Flora: Our hedges are heavy with blackberries, elderberries, rosehips, and hawthorn berries. By only trimming one side each year Clandon Wood maximizes this bounty.

Foraging Mammals: Bank voles, field vole and wood mice hunt for fallen nuts and insects among the ground leaf litter in the hedgerow and our grassland corridors. Always with one eye skyward to avoid our kestrels.

Farmland & Woodland Birds: Yellowhammers, linnets, and tits feed heavily in the shrubbery, while early winter thrushes like redwings can occasionally start arriving on field margins later in the month. Pheasant, partridge, jackdaws and crows are feeding in large numbers in the cut meadows.

Insects & Butterflies: Comma and speckled wood butterflies bask along the sunny side of our hedgerow. Micro climates make a huge difference at this time of year. Flowering ivy along hedge trees provides a vital late-season nectar source for ivy blossom pollinators such as bees, hoverflies, and ivy moths.

About tea, cake & company

At Clandon Wood we firmly believe that providing an environment for the bereaved is just as important as it is for those who have passed away. In this regard we hold a number of ‘aftercare’ events throughout the year for those left behind.

These include our monthly tea, cake and company drop ins which provide an opportunity for anyone who has been bereaved to be among and talk to others who share the experience of loss.

Held in our beautiful glass pavilion they take place from 11.30am to 2.30pm on the last Sunday of every month.

Simply drop in - whether or not you have a loved one at Clandon Wood, you will always be warmly welcomed with kindness, consideration and company.