About this blog
This blog is intended to record my wildlife observations (specifically butterflies) along the Sustrans 'Two Tunnels' route 24 between the end of the Combe Down Tunnel near Midford and Wellow.
My involvement on this route began as a Sustrans Wildlife volunteer, a role I still hold to this day. To find out more, check out the Sustrans volunteering with wildlife webpage.
Having frequented this area as a child in the 1960's shortly after the closure of the railway, I was fascinated to find out how much had changed in the intervening years. As a working railway the route was actively managed with rotational clearing of the embankments and maintenance of sidings and stations. This provided many open, sunny and warm habitats for wildlife with a wide variety of butterflies, plants, birds and reptiles evident.
Today the route is much changed. The embankments have become overgrown and the warm sunny habitats have been replaced by a shady woodland habitat. The conversion of the railway into a cycle route has necessitated the clearing of some of the trees and undergrowth.
My involvement on this route began as a Sustrans Wildlife volunteer, a role I still hold to this day. To find out more, check out the Sustrans volunteering with wildlife webpage.
Today the route is much changed. The embankments have become overgrown and the warm sunny habitats have been replaced by a shady woodland habitat. The conversion of the railway into a cycle route has necessitated the clearing of some of the trees and undergrowth.
All my sightings are recorded via the Butterfly Conservation iRecord Butterflies app or fed back to Sustrans via the BRC iRecord website.
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