Thursley Common update
After the devastating fire at Thursley Common National Nature Reserve, Surrey, we decided we would create a photographic record of its recovery - however that turned out to be.
So, every month for the next year, we will be visiting the common and recording its recovery photographically.
Carefully picking our way through the burnt ground looking for signs of animals and regeneration of plants is rather like being an explorer in an unknown land, a black desertscape.
As well as the blasted landscape with its birds, mammals and insects gone, what strikes one is the silence. No rustling of grasses or heather, no birds singing, no scurrying in the undergrowth.
The thrill of finding a large live adder just three weeks after finding one that had died in the fire, was incredibly exciting. Just as exciting was seeing the mounds of white sand covering the black soil where rabbits that had survived the fire are digging their tunnels out once again.
Click on 'Thursley after the fire' at the top of the page for further information and photographs.
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