New Member

A warm welcome to our newest member: Scottish Wildlife Blog.

New Member

A warm welcome to our newest member: Nature of Dorset.

New Member

A warm welcome to our newest member: Purbeck Footprints.

New Member

A warm welcome to our newest member: Capital nature - Barnehurst, Bexley and beyond.

Share your Twitterings

If you use the micro-blogging service, Twitter, please leave a message or drop us a line.

Vote now!

Don't forget to vote for the Best Environment Project in the National Lottery Awards.

New Member

A warm welcome to our newst member: Stand and Stare.

New Member

A warm welcome to our newest member: Dusted Off Bins.

New Member

A warm welcome to our newest member: Phillips Bird Brain Blog.

New Member

A arm welcome to our newest member: Kirkstall Creatures Great and Small.

New Member

A warm welcome to our newest member: Donegal Wildlife.

New Member

A warm welcome to our newest member: Downland Views.

New Member

A warm welcome to our newest member: Holding Moments.

Look out for Painted Ladies!

Painted Lady
Originally uploaded by Roger B.


According to BBC News, Britain and Ireland are being invaded by millions of painted lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui).

Have you seen any on your local patch yet?

You can find more information on the Butterfly Conservation website

New Members

A warm welcome to our newest members: The Northumberland Naturalist and BLOODY CRANESBILL..it's Geranium sanguineum!.

New Members

A warm welcome to our newest members: Walks With My Camera, Pushing through the Undergrowth and Hagbourne Wildlife.

New Members

A warm welcome to our latest members: The Coastal Zone, Cabinet of Curiosities and Beyond the Human Eye.

New Member

A warm welcome to our latest member: Wight Rambler.

New Members

A warm welcome to our latest members:Student of Earth and Shetland Exposure & Southern Exposure.

First Frogs

Common Frog (Rana Temporaria).

Photographed in the Rivelin Valley, South Yorkshire.

I noticed this morning that the first frogs are appearing in our local ditches and ponds. The first arrivals are always a little camera shy, but they should be much easier to photograph once spawning gets underway.

Keep an eye out for the first frog spawn in your area and report it to Nature's Calendar.

National Nest Box Week

National Nest Box Week starts today.

Happy Birthday Mr Darwin

Thursday 12th February 2009 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. To mark the occasion, all kinds of events are taking place around the world.

The Natural History Museum is promoting a special project called Darwin200:

Darwin200 plans to celebrate the impact that Darwin's ideas about evolution, as well as his approach to the understanding of the natural world and his outstanding example as a scientist, continue to have on our lives.

Why not drop us a line and tell us how you will be celebrating Darwin's birthday.

New Member

A warm welcome to our latest member: Heart of the Levels.

BGB Round-Up #2

Here are a few more posts about the Big Garden Birdwatch:

Bill's Birding

Midmarsh Jottings

Tricia's Tales

Nature's Calendar

With snow forecast for the week ahead, this is perhaps a good time to look forward to the warmer days of spring. To help you do so, the latest edition of Nature's Calendar News contains a phenological review of Spring 2008.

You can find out more at www.naturescalendar.org.uk.

BGB Round-Up #1

As promised, here are a few of your posts about the Big Garden Birdwatch:

Sheffield Wildlife

shirls gardenwatch

Wildlife Snapshots

Have we missed anyone out? If so, please send us a link to your post.

New Feature

Thanks to developments at Blogger, we have a new feature: the 'Recently Updated' list in the sidebar, which should make it easier to follow our members' blogs.

Please note that a few blogs are missing from the list because 'blog list gadget' was not able to locate a valid feed.

Big Garden Birdwatch

Don't forget that the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch takes place this weekend.

Send us a link to your BGB blog post and we will publish it here.

New Member

A warm welcome to our latest member: Midmarsh Jottings.

I and the Bird #92

Here's an email we received from Mike Bergin, a bird blogger from across the pond:

I've been shaking my fist northward for the last four frigid weeks. Actually, every part of me has been shaking from the brutal arctic assault. But at last, something great is blowing in from Canada!

Seabrooke Leckie of the Marvelous in Nature seems to weather the harsh winters of eastern Ontario with enviable equanimity. Where lesser souls would crumble and crack, Seabrooke savors every shade of the natural world and spins blog gold. Today, she's keeping us warm with a poetic picnic edition of I and the Bird #92.

Whether you're keeping cool on your blog or heating things up, if you're writing well about wild birds and birding, I and the Bird is for you. Join in the party by sending a link and summary to me or our next outstanding host Vickie (viclcsw AT aol DOT com) of Vickie Henderson Art by February 3 for the 2/5 edition!

For more information about 'I and the Bird', visit 10000birds.com.

Blogging Ex-pats

Back in December, a visitor left an anonymous comment:

I would like to suggest that the web ring is expanded to become 'EU Nature Bloggers'. There are lots of very interesting nature blogs published by ex-pats who are now living in other parts of Europe. Many of these ex-pats get great pleasure from regularly reading & keeping up to date with nature blogs from the UK, but at the same time would like to share their own sightings and natural history adventures in their new adopted countries! Just as many birds migrate to and fro between UK and Europe, it would be nice if our blogs could too!

Expanding the webring to cover the whole of the EU would be a bit ambitious, but we could certainly run a special feature on ex-pat nature bloggers.

Please get in touch if you would like to contribute.

New Member

A warm welcome to our latest member: Garden Birds - Notes from a Devon Garden.

Big Garden Birdwatch

The RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch takes place next weekend: 24-25 January 2009.

If you take part in the survey, why not write a blog post about your sightings? Send us a link to your post and we'll publish it here.

New Members

A warm welcome to our latest members: Billy Dykes' Birding Blog and MeadowLife at Hailey Park.

Fáilte!

After a long delay, I have finally got round to changing the name of this webring so that we can accept members from the Republic of Ireland.

Sorry it's taken me so long!