Common backswimmer
The fearsome common backswimmer hunts insects, tadpoles and fish. It uses its oar-like legs to swim upside-down under the water's surface where unsuspecting prey can be found.
©Andrew Parkinson/2020VISION
The fearsome common backswimmer hunts insects, tadpoles and fish. It uses its oar-like legs to swim upside-down under the water's surface where unsuspecting prey can be found.
Join us for a ramble through Snelsmore Common to spot and learn about the local wildlife!
Join us for a ramble through Greenham Common to spot and learn about the local wildlife!
Join us for a ramble through Greenham Common to spot and learn about the local wildlife!
Explore this historical common in Kenilworth with woodland walks
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The fluffy, white heads of common cotton-grass dot our brown, boggy moors and heaths as if a giant bag of cotton wool balls has been thrown across the landscape!
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For National Marine Week we'll have the opportunity to discover what's living on our shores & in our seas, searching the strandline together