UK and Ireland Natural History Bloggers: July 2009

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Cholsey Wildlife

Wheatear & Stonechats - Sunny, 20°, light NNE. The first *Stonechat* of the autumn on the hill today but disappeared down the NW side of the hill, a *Wheatear* also present for a...
9 hours ago
A life at the shoreline

Bonapartes Gull - 38 days at Liscannor - The Bonapartes Gull that I came across just up the coast at Clahane during a August blizzard has now been with us along the Liscannor coastline for 38 days...
13 hours ago
NI Birds

Bird News Wednesday 18th September - The Spotted Redshank, a Curlew Sandpiper, 3 Ruff and 2 Grey Plover were at RSPB WoW (Gerard McGeehan) An adult American Golden Plover was at Blanketnook a...
13 hours ago
Birding For Pleasure

Greylag Geese EXTRA - As I am in Australia, a few of the future posts will feature the photographs of my friend Danny who is in my bird class. These are Greylag Geese standing ...
23 hours ago
Birds to Bryophytes

Two American Golden Plovers, Lunt - Shortly after I left Lunt on Sunday after having seen the adult American Golden Plover, it was amazingly joined by a second bird! I called in today on my...
1 day ago
Birding with Flowers

Little Crake at Blacktoft Sands - The first class of the Autumn Term took place at RSPB Blacktoft Sands. When we arrived at just after 9 am there were a remarkable number of cars in the ca...
1 day ago
Isle of Wight Dragons

Back to the Southern Emeralds at Bouldnor. - Returning to the Southern Emerald site at Yarmouth today I was rewarded with a sighting of a female damselfly immediately on reaching the small scrape.Just...
1 day ago
Random Jottings

Autumn Is Coming - It's beginning to look a bit autumnal in the countryside. Leaves have started turning colour, fungi are poking up from the leaf litter and the Spindle tree...
1 day ago
Valley Naturalist

A fleeting glimpse - For a while, along the road that separates the upper part of Garn Lakes Local Nature Reserve from Waun Afon bog, I shared a conversation with a dog walke...
1 day ago
NI Bird Pics

Whimbrel - Mark Elliott. -
2 days ago
Pegler Birding

Heather Lake - on 8th September, 2019 - *Having had a successful (health-wise) trip out with my camera three days earlier, I found myself tempted to visit Heather Lake to see what the dragonfly s...
2 days ago
Austin's Birding Blog

15/09/2019 Lunt Meadows - American Golden Plover: The American golden plover annually performs one of the longest migrations of any American bird. This amazing migration sees them ...
2 days ago
An English Wood

Wild Cherry #trees - As we go into Autumn, there’ll be two posts a week, Monday and Friday. Prunus avium. Picture taken September 3.
2 days ago
Sustainable Garden

Entry into autumn ... - View of annex through prairie bedsThe early evening is dark now. Juvenile and adult tawnies in call and response. Another, distant, tawny joins in from th...
2 days ago
Midmarsh Jottings

Monday Mystery - It's a long, long while since I posted a What's That? type of photo. Here, at last, is a new one. [image: IMG_0786c] What was I photographing here? Answer ...
2 days ago
Brian's Birding Blog

Eastern Olivaceous Warbler - I couldn't make the trip south yesterday when news filtered through of the remarkable Hampshire record of an Eastern Olivaceous Warbler that had been found...
3 days ago
Birders in Boxers

Canaries Cruise : 31.August - 13.Sept 2019 - This year's main holiday saw myself and Teresa return to cruising following land holidays in Mexico and Costa Rica in 2017 and 2018. We left Southampton on ...
3 days ago
The Heirs of Gilbert

15th September - Another exceptionally quiet week for birds. The one highlight was my first Peregrine of the year, it was perched in a field along Potter’s Lane on Friday ...
3 days ago
Murtagh's Meadow

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3 days ago
Bangor West Patchwork Challenge

WOW delivers..........again......and again. - As the autumn migration started in earnest we were hoping for a few nice waders as the water levels were spot on - especially compared to August 2018. Ter...
4 days ago
Appleton Wildlife Diary by Alex White

Vaccinate Not Exterminate -
4 days ago
Daft Mumblings | …of a concerned amateur

Ramsey Island: Missing the silence - Sitting on the doorstep of the Bungalow, the silence washes over me. Not a total silence but an absence of manmade sound. Nature is here, all around, and t...
4 days ago
Gabriel Hemery

What Lies Beneath - [image: What Lies Beneath] Recently I contributed to an article about the dark web which lurks beneath the woodland floor, namely its fungi. Read More Con...
4 days ago
I Love Arnside and Silverdale

Snippets of wealth - Friday 13th Sept 2019 - Finding Gentians, Hawthorn berries in relation to Thrushes - If you want to check out the 2019 VISIBLE BIRD MIGRATION PAGES then please click over the following link: https://arnsidesilverdale.blogspot.com/2019/09/2...
5 days ago
The Cowboy Birder

Wanstead August Stats - 20 records of *Pied Flycatcher*, 29 records of *Common Redstart*, 41 records of *Tree Pipit*...the numbers don't lie - by all accounts it's been an excelle...
5 days ago
Ring Watching At Antrim Marina

Birthday... - Not much was done this past weekend, as it was my birthday on Saturday (my 59th), and Sunday saw me popping out just for a few hours. This meant my weekly...
5 days ago
Zygoma

Friday mystery object #364 answer - Last week I gave you this fantastic skull from the Dead Zoo to have a go at identifying: It’s clearly a bird and it has a distinctive shield of keratin at ...
5 days ago
Pear tree and Beyond

" Long time coming .... " - One of my garden wildlife highlights this year has been the discovery that my long forgotten ' Bee Hotel/houses' has finally got some occupants, its bee...
6 days ago
Bugman Jones

The Jones index of implied menace - US entomologist Justin Schmidt has carved out a place in entomological history by putting together the Schmidt pain index to measure the intensity of insec...
6 days ago
Linacre Blogger

Black-headed Gull 230A - I was at Rufford Country Park on Sunday to check on the *Black-headed Gulls*. Two familiar rings were read, 206A (British-ringed) and EUM3 (Dutch-ringed), ...
1 week ago
Jottings of a novice nature watcher!

Duncliffe - On Wednesdays I take Tilly to Stour Row for training, well more like socialising with other dogs and people! Afterwards I take her to Duncliffe Woods a sho...
1 week ago
BTO Cymru

Welsh Ringing Course, September 6-9, 2019 A trainee’s view - Members of the course trapped over 500 birds during the weekend It is 11pm on the first night of the course,...
1 week ago
Moths of Boughton-under-Blean

- Just back from a week in Broadway in the Cotswolds where I ran the moth trap and got 4 species new to me. They were: Brown-spot Pinion, August Thorn, Sep...
1 week ago
The Lyons Den

East Head Case - My first season as an almost full time entomologist is drawing to a close. It's been an incredible summer and one of the most exciting surveys has been th...
1 week ago
Ruffled Feathers

Some tidy tides - The last set of high tides at Ynyslas at the end of August/start of September proved pretty amazing as would be expected at this time of the year. Visiting...
1 week ago
Coffee Shop Nature Notes

Sad - As a S.A.D. summer sufferer this past season has been pretty difficult and that is not accounting for the current appalling politics. I do not know how wil...
1 week ago
Hethersett Birdlife

Autumn surprises - It is over a week ago that a solitary swift drifted south across my garden marking the last of his kind until next summer for me. Always a sad and sudden e...
1 week ago
Wilden Marsh

Mink Going in and out of the River Stour - Mink going in and out of the River Stour last night. The post Mink Going in and out of the River Stour appeared first on The Wilden Marsh Blog.
1 week ago
Harbour Master

I NEEDED THAT - After a long nite shift and with it rain hard instead of going birding I went fishing a haul in five hours 11 carp and 1 chub 8 skimmers and 13 roach best ...
1 week ago
Pete Cooper Wildlife

Reap, mow, dewild the meadow: Getting out of our culture of over-cutting - Wrapped up in duffle coats and bobble hats, the volunteers were still more than willing to venture out into the biting cold of mid-January. Having admired ...
1 week ago
Philip Strange Science and Nature Writing

The plastic biobeads that litter our beaches - Earlier this year, I wrote here about the plastic pellets that were appearing in large numbers on Charmouth and other nearby beaches in West Dorset in the ...
1 week ago
Hampshire Dragonflies

Change in the Weather - Ten years chasing dragonflies and I’m still in love with them. Being a seasonal treat helps to forward the interest; every April I can’t wait to spot that ...
1 week ago
Another Bird Blog

Linnets Minus One - As a light sleeper I’m often awake early. A look at the breaking dawn of Sunday revealed clear skies and no wind - a morning to revisit those darned Linne...
1 week ago
Butterfly Pictures

Tree - During my regular morning and evening dog walk, I usually go up a farm track close to where we live. There is a rather overgrown hedge there and two lovely...
1 week ago
Butterfly Islands

Viewpoint Blues. - Parking my car at the National Trust viewpoint car park at the foot of Afton Down a couple of days ago, I was pleased to see that a selection of butterflie...
1 week ago
Cabinet of Curiosities

Chilled roe deer - *Most of my encounters with roe deer have been brief - often just a bobbing white tail disappearing through the trees. But this one, near Romaldkirk in Te...
1 week ago
Too Lazy To Weed

Another Hog Blog - I’ve been getting some really nice hoggy video clips from the assorted cameras in the garden lately; the perfect excuse for another hog blog! Freda our res...
2 weeks ago
Murf's Wildlife

Semi-palamated Sandpiper in Sligo - I was passing through Sligo this afternoon on my way to Donegal and dropped into Ross's Strand to see the Semi-palmated Sandpiper that Paul Keogh found the...
2 weeks ago
Pam's Place

Ramsey Island - On the Monday of our holiday we booked the boat to take us over the Ramsey Island for the day. It's about a ten minute journey from St Justinians and was a...
2 weeks ago
Considering Birds

Dark - It was the kind of evening that Slapton excels at. We started outside a lesser horseshoe roost at dusk, listening with delight to the pitch-shifted Doppler...
2 weeks ago
In a Beekeepers Garden

South Sudan update - I have done two missions back to back My first as a WASTAN water and sanitation engineer in Juba the new capital of South Sudan. This first mission was thr...
2 weeks ago
Wild Barley

Seabirds of Noss - The cliffs towered above the small boat as it rolled gently in the waves at their feet, its sandstone face honeycombed into multiple shelves and crags smoo...
2 weeks ago
Sketchbook Squirrel

Moving - Thanks for stopping by. Just to let you know, this is not my tutorials website. Head to the current tutorials website to find out more about my online wa...
2 weeks ago
Biodiversity Gatwick

Working with a live specimen - On Friday I found this potter wasp (one of the small, solitary nesting wasps) running around on the landscape contractor's bright green car. I thought I'd ...
3 weeks ago
A Birding Odyssey

Further thoughts on the petition to ban driven grouse shooting. - The above petition is now close to reaching 80,000 signatures, a tremendous achievement. So the next obvious point to make ( of course ! ), is that , if ...
3 weeks ago
Frank Anderson Photography

Who's Stalking Who? - I haven’t been out much this summer, but couldn’t resist what might be a last gasp spell of warm weather this bank holiday weekend. I thought I’d try my...
3 weeks ago
Common By Nature

Bringing the wilds home: a backyard experiment - The problem with living in any city, whether that be London, Manchester or, like me, Newcastle, is that space is often at a premium. Large expansive garden...
3 weeks ago
Killy Birder

Too Darn Hot! - Aug. ‘My’ resident Wood Pigeons having successfully raised a family in the trees at the bottom of the garden have stayed on to enjoy the available seed an...
3 weeks ago
florafaunauk

VC63 Garden Moths 25th August 2019 - *VC63 Garden Moths 25th August 2019* *Method * 20 W Actinic Robinson 2269 Centre-barred Sallow Atethmia centrago ABH 73.219 0647 Brown House-moth Hofmanno...
3 weeks ago
National Trust Fell Rangers

Gowbarrow helicopter lift and a return to Hole in the Wall - After all our work bagging the rock and aggregate for the footpath repairs on Gowbarrow, it was time to get everything flown over to site. * Looking down o...
3 weeks ago
Cornish Rock Pools

Rock Pool Bingo – Searching for Southerly Species (Part 2 – North Coast) - With our bingo cards of southerly species part-filled after an exciting day on the south coast, our visitors from Wales still had quite a wish list left to...
4 weeks ago
Seabed Habitats

Seals of Blakeney Point -
4 weeks ago
Lancashire and Lakeland Outback Adventure Wildlife Safaris

Another safari to south Lakeland and a Sandwich or two - *The Safari has been* out n about since our last post mostly trying to dodge the weather. We've done a couple of beachcombing and rockpooling events with f...
4 weeks ago
Musings on the Wild

Jewels on the Wing - I have been collecting data on the wildlife of 'my patch' for over 15 years now and its about time I did a little more with that information. At this time ...
4 weeks ago
Rockablog

Dalkey islands: Volunteers helping to 'tern' things around - The tern season on the Dalkey islands is wrapping up, and what a few months it has been! The small, but tenacious Arctic Tern colony *(29 pairs), have succ...
4 weeks ago
Sorby Natural History Society, Sheffield

Bird Ringing at Blackburn Meadows - Saturday – Sunday 17/ 18 August This meeting will be canceled in the event of wet weather, Please visit this site, the evenings before the above dates, for...
5 weeks ago
LENS: Long Eaton Natural History Society

#Get Better with Nature at Lightwood Reservoir - After driving through pouring rain we arrived at Buxton ready for a good soaking. However the weather was kind to us and although we seemed to be surrounde...
5 weeks ago
The Wildlifewriter

Foraging Study - 7L in Sussex - *Here in the UK, recreational angling is big business. In England, angling was estimated to have put £STG 1.4bn into the local economy. (2018 figures) As...
5 weeks ago
Druridge Diary

Wet weather - It's rained, almost constantly, since Friday and I'm bored of being stuck at home. It's a good excuse to catch up with sorting through some photos though. ...
5 weeks ago
Tricia's Tales

Forde Abbey in Dorset on 18 July 2019 - A very dull day weatherwise, but a beautiful trip to Forde Abbey and gardens The fountain, which runs as specified times of the day, rea...
1 month ago
The Roving Bumbarrel

West Canvey Marsh - Yesterday I spent the afternoon at West Canvey Marsh my first visit in five years! Like everywhere in the south-east of England a lack of significant rainf...
1 month ago
Thorne & Hatfield Moors Conservation News

Annual Sphagnum Survey - The Forum has been involved with the series of annual surveys for sphagnum on Thorne Moors since the recent survey was initiated in 2016. The 2019 adventu...
1 month ago
Naturanaute

Warren Farm and the value of nature - This is a picture of grassland. Just a piece of grassland, with trees in the background, some yellow, white and purple flowers in the foreground. What’s so...
1 month ago
My Life Outside

Tornado and the Pembroke Coast Express - Sunday before last saw an unusual visitor arriving here in South Wales and as you might expect from a land steeped in myth and legend, this was to be no or...
1 month ago
Ron Bury's Wildlife

Rewilding conference signals fresh thinking for Scotland’s land and seas - [image: Red deer] Red deer are one of Scotland’s most recognisable mammals – yet their numbers in recent decades have soared, bringing into question thei...
1 month ago
Islay Natural History Trust

Talk by Islay Energy Trust 23 July - Lots of local interest for Kirsten Gow's talk on heat pumps and whether a sea-source system in Loch Indaal could heat the hostel building and possibly...
1 month ago
Wildlife Conservation from the Heart of the Levels in Somerset UK

Curry Rivel in Bloom - We welcomed inspectors from Britain in Bloom today and found it very useful in readiness for our more serious inspection next Monday as part of our Nationa...
1 month ago
UK Wildlife

Photographing Water Voles - Last week I spent some time at my local water vole site and I was rewarded with some good views. They were how ever a little shy to begin with. But they so...
1 month ago
Marilyn's Wildlife Diary

Wicken Fen - The old wind-pump at Wicken Fen Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire is one of Britain's oldest nature reserves. It has been many years since I was last there, so...
2 months ago
Cath Hodsman British Wildlife Artist

Bugs and Birds Gallery - [image: Bugs and Birds. Fauna from Bugs and Birds. Fauna from Central and South America]“Bugs and Birds”. Fauna from Central and South America. Blue & Yel...
2 months ago
A year of my nature hunting

Post 499 - Promoting positive parks at Parliament & Pollinator Papparazzi - Hey everyone, An historic reformer acknowledged outside ParliamentBeen a while since I did a blog, for lots of reasons, but thought I ought to do a post a...
2 months ago
The Street Tree

Ada Salter and the Beautification of Bermondsey - Ada Salter, was the driving force behind the transformation of Bermondsey from industrial slum to green oasis. By 1930, 7,000 trees were planted on the new...
2 months ago
The Early Birder

Pennington Flash - These pictures are from a few weeks back when I took a visit to Pennington Flash, which is one of the premier birding sites in the North West. Such a varie...
2 months ago
My Nature Notes

Arctic Skua in Dorset: what your tweets tell us ... - Arctic Skua in Dorset: what your tweets tell us ... Although named the Arctic skua because its main breeding grounds are within the Arctic circle this spec...
2 months ago
Hagbourne Wildlife

Half-way through 2019 - This spring was a good one for solitary bees – tawny miners everywhere: females emerging, with males standing by Then there were hairy-footed flower bees, ...
2 months ago
Daily Nature Blog

A Trip to Wonderland - Last Saturday, my sister, mum and me went to Deinze (a Belgian city, you pronounce it as [ˈd̪ɛɪ̯n̪z̪ə] haha). There aren’t many shops but some outlet store...
2 months ago
Wessex Wanderings

- Bramshill June 2019 Bramshill walks Walks around the Bramshill plantation. Bramshill Orchids 2010 Bramshill and Riseley Bramshill 2012 Bramshill 2013 Bramsh...
2 months ago
Wisdom of a Wazzock

Goodbye - Unfortunately WordPress has totally changed the way one edits a blog. Life’s too short for me to learn all this rubbish so I’ve stopped blogging for good. ...
2 months ago
The Curious Naturalist

Orchids on Chapel Green wildflower meadow, Rocklands - Flower-rich meadow with orchids, Chapel Green, 12 June 2019After an apparent absence of several years⁠—though these things can be notoriously elusive!⁠—Be...
3 months ago
Wild and Wonderful

Suffolk Wildlife Trust Nature Summit, 7 June 2019 - David and I attended a Nature Summit last Friday evening, organised by Suffolk Wildlife Trust, to which we belong. We had been invited to listen to a ran...
3 months ago
Landscapism

Brief thoughts on a PhD journey completed - Well its done. I've been awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in Archaeology. My research has ranged over landscape archaeology, landscape history, monasti...
3 months ago
Why watch wildlife?

30 Days Wild – Day 5 – Burnby Hall and Gardens - As I had an event to attend at Burnby Hall, I had a quick wander round the gardens to see what wild moments may be round the corner. The highlight was prob...
3 months ago
Flying high!

A welcome visitor to my garden! - A welcome surprise greeted me when I checked the images on my Camera Trap! Foxes are the normal visitors captured on the camera throughout the night and the...
3 months ago
Wildlife Snapshots

A Hammer Made of Feathers - "Och, It's easy up here. If you see a chiffchaff it's a willow warbler." It's funny how things stick in your memory. I was in my teens, we were on a guid...
3 months ago
Wader World

May 2019. - Stone Curlew - 01st May 2019 Avocet - flag ringed AJ - Fishtail lagoon - Keyhaven - 03rd & 10th May 2019 Avocet - flag ringed AJ - Fishtail lagoon -Keyhaven...
3 months ago
Birding the day away!

Bulgaria ~ May '19 - *This trip was from Sofia airport on Thursday 16th and back on Sunday 19th with the original plan of some alpine birding around Maljovista but the weather ...
3 months ago
European Trees

A Landscape For Bees - A LANDSCAPE FOR BEES By Kacper Zrabkowski and Pip Howard The new Quince Honey Farm, (QHF), development in South Molton, North Devon, has developed the firs...
3 months ago
Rain Geese and Selkies

The Seafarers - First read of The Seafarers by the shore, magical! One evening last week, I walked down to the shore to a thrift-seamed rock where I sometimes sit and rea...
3 months ago
Wildlife on our Allotment

Thick-Legged Flower Beetle - I haven't seen any new wildlife on the plot for a while so was pleased that this little chap stayed still for a photo. Look at those legs! They are what ide...
4 months ago
Alcester Nature Photography

Bluebells in Oversley wood - First post in a very long time. Had a quick walk around Oversley Wood today to photograph Bluebells, think I may have been a little late though as I belie...
4 months ago
Elliot's Birding Diaries

Eurasian Dotterel… - Following an already successful morning down the road at Leasowe Lighthouse with the putative ‘Iberian’ Wagtail, which if accepted by the higher powers wou...
4 months ago
A.W.Birder: Always on the lookout for fine birds...

India: Northeast - The last part of my India birding trip this year took me to the Northeast for a brief trip, where I birded the phenomenal Eaglesnest Area and Kaziranga Nat...
4 months ago
Dawn Monrose Nature Photography

White Wings - Change is part of life. Every new day is an opportunity to begin again. The seasons turn, the tides change, the sun rises and sets. We humans assume we can...
4 months ago
The Naturephile

The fragile nature of Green Belt - Over the last year and a half or so I’ve been working with a group of people from my village to try to limit the development of our Green Belt land. ‘Green...
4 months ago
Wildlife Photographic Journals

Exploring Extremadura: Day 5 - Steppe Winds - I had an early start on day 5 of the trip as it would be my turn to try for Little Bustard and I would be taken to the hide in the dark. While getting read...
5 months ago
shirls gardenwatch

Wordless Wednesday: Spot the wildlife - This post was published by Shirley for shirls gardenwatch in April 2019.
5 months ago
naturestimeline

The blog has gone quiet but why? A quick review of my latest activities plus some amateur video footage from the fields of lowland England. - Just a brief update for my followers, I’m doing fine guys and who knows when I’ll be revisiting the blog, but I thought you deserved an explanation. This l...
5 months ago
Harry's Wildlife

How Social Environment Affects Song in Phylloscopus Leaf Warblers - Introduction In the breeding season, birds use song as a means of recognising and identifying the species and sex of the individual singing. They can then ...
5 months ago
Alan Watson Featherstone's Blog

Unseen biodiversity of Glen Affric, part 3 - "Cryptic colouration, as camouflage is referred to in more scientific terms, was becoming a theme of my day, especially when I came across one of my favour...
5 months ago
Rambles with a Camera

Blakeney Point Norfolk is a wonderful place to see seals.................................... -
6 months ago
Murmuration

Book Review: The Pull Of The River - The Pull of The River by Matt Gaw published by Elliott and Thompson: paperback out now You should read this while crammed onto a commuter train - it is th...
6 months ago
The Early Birder

Black-throated Diver. - A couple of weeks ago I drove southwards to Mercers Lake, part of the Holmthorpe Sand Pits complex to see if I could catch up with a juvenile *Black-throate...
6 months ago
Nature Poetry, Sketches, And the rest.

6th Feb 2017 - Dalton Crags (Lark ascending was not to be) - *Monday 6th February 2017 - Dalton Crags 0900hrs to 1000hrs* Lark ascending was not to be I watched and I listened for twenty three Perhaps too cold to sh...
7 months ago
Natural Born Blogger

Happy Birthday - Highlights from a recent birthday surprise and a visit to the Lake District. Few better places to wake up than on the shores of Derwentwater with the snow-...
7 months ago
The Natural Stone

Pak Meng Beach - It's a sad fact that travelling on an extremely tight budget forces you to forgo certain places. So it was as we arrived for the first time in southern pen...
7 months ago
Purbeck Footprints

Quiet but never silent. - I missed the Sun this morning, not because I was late but because the early wander was done and dusted by the time the clouds cleared. When all is calm and...
8 months ago
holdingmoments

2018 My Year with Cancer - First of all, apologies to anyone who commented on the last post I did and didn't get a reply. For some reason all the comments got lost. This is the firs...
8 months ago
Thérèse Goes Birding

16th, 19th & 20th December 2018 - Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico - For a break before Christmas, I found a cheap flight and headed to Mexico for the first time. I planned a small itinerary travelling around the Yucatan Pe...
8 months ago
LOOSE AND LEAFY in Winter

IN HOSPITAL - The most recent post on Loose and Leafy in Halifax explains I am not blogging because I am in hospital.
9 months ago
Sissinghurst Birds etc...

Canada 2018 - Ending the day at Hillman Marsh - With Stephen again at the wheel we headed west towards Point Pelee, it was approximately a 3 hour drive, we were looking for flooded fields or anything t...
10 months ago
Wildlife Matters

“Simon Says”-Playing lost & found with our planet - (Above – Sand lizard on Upton Heath © Andy Fale) The numbers Here we go again. The same old headlines from a bunch of greeny, tree-huggers moaning about t...
10 months ago
Hedgeland Tales

Red-necked Grebe at Ferry Meadows CP, Peterborough - A bird in winter plumage, hence not really a red neck, but showing ridiculously well close to the visitor centre on Overton lake at Ferry Meadows CP.
10 months ago
Jane Smith Wildlife Art

Islay Images for Loch Gruinart - The RSPB commissioned these six images to be used in their visitors’ centre on Islay. They depict the wildlife of the flooded meadows at the head of Loc...
10 months ago
Hares on the Hill

A Hōzuk inspired, but not very good tanka - I want to celebrate the tiny, the magnificently inconsequential, the epically minute, the stepped on or stepped over, the steppes found on the facet of a...
10 months ago
leavesnbloom

Stag’s horn Sumach In Autumn - The Rhus typhina shrub, commonly known as the Stag’s horn sumach, in autumn has a brilliant array of colour. It’s an understated large suckering, bushy s...
11 months ago
Newhaven Wildlife

Pell-mell and pain at The Rookery - I timed my evening walk perfectly tonight. The sunset was gift-wrapped in a ribbon of flame-orange cloud which glowed parallel with the western horizon....
11 months ago
EFRS

A bridge too far - *(CLICK ON A PIC AND IT WILL GO BIG)* It was a bit of a grey day again. It always does seem to be a grey day when the EFRS are out. Saturday and fo...
11 months ago
The Caged Naturalist

Autumn Migrants - Thrintoft is starting to look and feel a little more autumnal now. The trees are slowly on the turn and the cooler weather has seen me reach for the coat f...
11 months ago
The Barley Bird-er

Titchfield Haven Ringing Group - August 2018 Update - It has been nearly two years since my last post and I have been asked several times recently how our ringing studies have been going at Titchfield Haven, s...
1 year ago
Barcode Ecology

A Cornish Paradise - In spring, A and I escaped to the country. The Cornish countryside to be specific. I managed to find somewhere for a decent price online, a whole flat to...
1 year ago
Notes of Nature

Book Review: Who was Ingen Housz Anyway? by Norman and Elaine Beale - This short book is a wonderful introduction to the life and times of Jan Ingen Housz. While the main body of the book is only 36 pages, the authors have pa...
1 year ago
Owls about that then!

A long long time........... - Hi all, remember me? It has been an awful long time since I did an update on Blogger, there are loads of reasons why I've been absent for so long but I'm n...
1 year ago
Matt Cole Wildlife Photography

Building a Wildlife Pond - I'm not sure 'building' is the right word for a pond...digging maybe? Anyway, I've been busy this summer trying to whip my garden into shape as it's been n...
1 year ago
FABirding

Small Copper. - This is my fourth year of walking the same 1770 metres transect through ancient oak woodland and on Tuesday I recorded my first ever sighting of the *Smal...
1 year ago
Irish Wildlife - Blog

Mammal atlas of Ireland - The Mammal Atlas maps almost a quarter of a million sightings of 72 species of marine and terrestrial mammal. It brings together data from 57 different dat...
1 year ago
Beneath the Boughs

Distractions - I made a mistake. Sat at my desk, slowly working my way through my to-do list, I let my mind wander and as is becoming the norm now, it brought up memories...
1 year ago
Irish Wildlife Photography

Orange Ladybird Larva -
1 year ago
Keith Balmer on six legs...

Peacock Parasitoids - On Sunday 17th June I collected from the wild a web of approx 44 Peacock larvae with the intention of breeding them through and releasing the adults. I alw...
1 year ago
The farm upon the hill | Wildlife blog from West Wales

Swallows return - This year, Spring took a while to appear in Pembrokeshire . Snow, sleet and rain one minute, the next burning heat . Days lengthened, April melted into May...
1 year ago
Heart of Wild

Flight of a Pixie - And she made it. This is the long awaited sequel to my last post whereupon I decided to keep a shiny, brown, finely tapered pupae found in the garden hidde...
1 year ago
Esticadinho Nature

The big Spring emergence and a new Tophill species - Despite the prolonged cold spring, the Odonata season began surprisingly early in VC61 during the latter part of April, with typically the first species em...
1 year ago
Views of the Ock

Water Voles 2018 - Recent studies have shown that water voles in the UK are in even more trouble than previously thought, with a decline of 30% in recent years ( https://www.t...
1 year ago
Ecologica

Bold and aggressive behaviour means birds thrive in cities - As readers of this blog will know I studied how birds change their behaviour in cities for my PhD. I pleased to say I recently published part of this work ...
1 year ago
Ian McCall

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1 year ago
Hemel Birding

NEW SOCIAL MEDIA, & BLOG COMING SOON - *Regular visitors will have noticed a decrease in posts to the HEMEL NATURE blog - this is because I have been living & working out of the area, & due to ...
1 year ago
Wildlife Wanderings

Early spring on RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset - THE warm weather has kick started spring with amphibians, reptiles and insects appearing at last, and resident birds singing: toads brimstone comma roe d...
1 year ago
Yorkie's Wildlife Photos

An afternoon with a Kingfisher -
1 year ago
Entomacrographic

Pure gold - I often meet up with Paul Darby ex Wiltshire Wildlife Trust for a pint and a bag of twiglets and inevitably our conversation turns to wildlife. Recently he...
1 year ago
The Wild West!

Back on the Wight (Day 2) - Day 2 back on the Isle of Wight: after breakfast I drove to the chalk downs above Mottistone to meet up with an old (young) friend, George Greiff. Over the...
1 year ago
Northern Ireland Black-headed Gull Colour-ringing Project

Finding out more about Hoodies - In an attempt to find out more about Hooded Crows (love them or hate them......we don’t know a lot about their movements and even less about their populat...
1 year ago
The Wild Photographer

WWE NXT recap, reactions, video highlights : With a bang - *Title : WWE NXT recap, reactions, video highlights : With a bang * Posted 25 January 2018 Velveteen Dream directs his own video for a promo about his main...
1 year ago
Julie's Blog

Wildlife Camera Trap - Hedgehog Time in Our Garden -
1 year ago
Bug Mad Girl

Christmas Art Show 2017 - Welcome to my Christmas art show! I hope you enjoy looking at some of the pictures I've drawn and painted this year. Have a wonderful Christmas and New...
1 year ago
Springhill Lane Wildlife

End of an era? - [image: land sale copy] Having not blogged about the lane for some time (due to my FTP problems) it is sad to recommence with the possible end of the fie...
1 year ago
Ashenbank Woods - A Local Patch !

December diary 2017 - 12th December - A few birds to be seen around the woodland in very cold icy conditions included a small Tit flock consisting of *Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long...
1 year ago
Bill's Birding

Wistman's Wood in winter - Last weekend I teamed up with budding botanist Alex Mills for a brief stomp around Dartmoor. We dumped the car by the side of the road at Two Bridges and h...
1 year ago
Donegal Wildlife

Another update! - On 14th September 2014, I posted about a Stigmella perpygmaeella leaf mine on Hawthorn with a hymenopteran parasite in the mine. I couldn't get any further...
1 year ago
From the muddy banks of the Dee....

This Fucus World... - A whole mess of life. Annelid worms, molluscs, bi-valves, crustaceans, thickets of seaweed, wrecks of shells, shattered, outgrown and discarded or pecked t...
1 year ago
Birds and a brew...

Evolution not revolution, St Abb’s Head Lighthouse - A new flashing LED light was installed earlier this year to replace the old revolving lens system. The new LED system is a small box tacked onto the outsid...
1 year ago
Views from an urban lake

The Last Hillwalker - Review - [image: The Last Hillwalker - Review (book cover image)] Mountain climbing has never been my thing, it's not that I am scared of heights, I used to hang o...
1 year ago
DGPix Wildlife and Nature Photography

November 2017 Photo Weekend Workshop - Storm Ophelia saw our October Fungi & Woodland course (and last of 2017!) postponed to mid-November, owing to a lot of felled trees, hanging storm debris a...
1 year ago
Spinkyblurb

Otter-ly Brilliant! - I must have spent so much time out in the Broads lately that Otters now think I am part of the landscape! Let me explain how, for a brief moment today, I b...
1 year ago
A Small Field Called Ellers Meadow

Building a Otter Holt - What to do on a Saturday if you have some kerb stones and limestone slabs and are fortunate enough to own 600m of river bank, build an otter holt! Otte...
1 year ago
Ron's Wildlife Photography blog

Ural Owl, Czech Republic. - I am a big fan of owls, any owls from any wherein the world. But I think that the Ural owl is just about my favorite owl. These image where taken in the...
1 year ago
exploringwildlife.blogspot.co.uk

Costa Rica: Part Three - La Selva Biological Station - arrived lovely accomodation 1km from recpetion path to accommodation full of wildlife food eating with the researchers night walk morning walk after breakfas...
1 year ago
The Portland Naturalist

Southern Spain: 21/8 - 26/8 - *Day 1, 21st August:* We touched down at Malaga at lunchtime, having experienced Abi's first ever flight, despite having missed our train to the airport ba...
2 years ago
Ian Butler Photography

New Square Greeting Cards - New greeting cards just sent off for printing including 10 new designs! Will be available to buy from next week. … Continue reading →
2 years ago
The Wold Ranger

Saran dan Masukan Agar Blog Bisa Menghasilkan Dollar - World Ranger Blog | Saran dan Masukan Agar Blog Bisa Menghasilkan Dollar - Ada beberapa hal yang wajib atau perlu dilengkapi terlebih dahulu semoga blog ya...
2 years ago
Zoo Volunteer

Dragonflies 2: Common Darter - Territorial male Common Darter One of the commonest dragonflies in the UK, especially in the south, is the Common Darter *Sympetrum striolatum*. One of at ...
2 years ago
Woodlouse House

August 2017 - I should be outside painting the window frames but the rain arrived. The wooden frames were my idea ... people kept telling me to go for plastic ones bu...
2 years ago
indie birder

Birding San Diego, California, USA - May 2017 - Part 2 - Following on from Part 1, as I tried to squeeze in as many birding opportunities as possible during a week-long work trip to Sand Diego, California in earl...
2 years ago
Keepers Cottage Wildlife Garden Diary

Roman Bridge, Galloway Forest Park - 7th May 2016 -
2 years ago
Wildlife in my local patch

Photos for Dof E skill section - A selection of photos from the last 6 months to illustrate my developing interest in nature photography. The post Photos for Dof E skill section appeared...
2 years ago
Lee Brady's Recording Blog

Adder Hibernacula - What criteria should we use to define adder hibernacula? After all, hibernaculua are not necessarily just holes in the ground. One approach is to identify ...
2 years ago
Rambles through Nature

Seal Island Visit - I was recently back down in St Ives, Cornwall, with a day to spare between several very attractive walks along the peninsula’s coastline. I had spent the m...
2 years ago
Inspired by Ecology

1000 species challenge - Meadow grassland at Westmeston Church - not as many species as earlier in the year*Introduction* As part of the summer's activities of Pan-Species lister...
2 years ago
Samanta's Wildlife

HELP! I’m in my late 20s and looking to re-start academia. - I still consider myself a young woman but the prospect of re-entering academia at my age is without a doubt a little daunting. I feel as if I am starting a...
2 years ago
Paul's Back Garden Safari

Twin-spotted Quaker - I've been a little quiet lately on this blog to say the least. But perhaps I'll start again. After a great weekend walking along the South Wales Coast last...
2 years ago
Bird and Bug Diaries...

- Manchester worker bee, based on the mosaics situated throughout the city centre
2 years ago
The Art of Nature

Here be dragons! - It's half term! Which means I've been rather occupied putting together activities and running events for our visiting families. Yesterday, we held a *very*...
2 years ago
WillowWhispering

The Running Hare - The Secret Life of Farmland - I’ve just finished reading The Running Hare – The Secret Life of Farmland by John Lewis-Stempel. He was the winner of the Thwaites Wainwright Prize in 201...
2 years ago
Uisce | Water and words flow through a Celtic environment

Mary Gillham in Ireland – Lovely turns of phrase - Welsh naturalist Dr. Mary Gillham of Cardiff University had a special relationship with Ireland and some of the accounts of her visits have lovely turns of...
2 years ago
Kingfisher Diary

Olympus 300mm F4 Pro more observations - Well it’s still very much early days for me with the Olympus set up, and I still have a nice warm glow about the system. Thus far my only gripe is the au...
2 years ago
flockmentality | Feral goose chasing

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2 years ago
Outdoors

Why Not Croak & Coot Tag Team Competition! - Open Gardens I promised Jen Dening I would give a mention to the Open Garden event taking place this weekend at Stone Rings Close, Harrogate, so here it is...
2 years ago
Garden Bird Year

On the move.. - Just the like the spring migrants, we are on the move.. This blog is now updated regularly on our new website www.irishgardenbirds.ie Come and see us so...
2 years ago
Oisín Duffy - Nature Notes

Small Blue - The Small Blue butterfly is the smallest species of butterfly in Ireland and also has quite a restricted range, only being found in certain areas across th...
2 years ago
Wild South London

Jack in-the-box - There was a smattering of sun through the cloud, and spring seemed to be uncoiling itself.
2 years ago
An Irish Nature Journal | A Digital Journal of Irish Nature

More Shore Birds! - Last weekend my friend and I spent another day watching and counting shore birds for the I-Webs survey here in Kerry. The weather was relatively came after...
2 years ago
A Day In the Life of a Wildlife Artist

This blog has moved - Thank you for following me! Please note this blog has now moved to: http://www.robertefuller.com/diary/ Click on the link to keep on following me. www.ro...
2 years ago
George's wonderful wildlife report

A whale of a time. - Hello and welcome after a very, very long time to my latest publication. I have recently spent two months on the road with my brother taking in some of the...
2 years ago
Jenny McLaren- art, fieldnotes & findings

Stories to tell..... - "Old Forest above Gairloch" ⒸJenny McLaren 2017 SOLD At the end of 2014 I stopped regularly posting on this blog. I never felt I found my "authentic voice...
2 years ago
Wild Sight

Nature’s Canvas - It was a gift that kept on giving. I was captivated by its endless variety and unpredictability, and the fact that I can remember it decades later shows w...
2 years ago
Adam Winson, Arboriculturist

Komorebi (木漏れ日): Sunshine filtering through the trees. - There is a Japanese term “Komorebi”, for which no simple English translation exists. Yet it is a distinct phenomenon, that anyone who spends time among t...
2 years ago
Ecology Liz's Blog

Blog Reopened & Update - So, I’m back! A lot has changed in my life over the last few months while I’ve had my blog closed. I’ve started studying filmmaking, and it has become my ...
2 years ago
Ben Porter Wildlife Photography

I've moved! - I have decided to move my blog over to wordpress, for a variety of reasons, although am having issues redirecting the address. Consequently, if you'd like ...
2 years ago
Beetle Boy's BioBlog

Dinosaurs: how they lived and evolved, book review - For Christmas, I got a variety of great zoology and paleontology books, but probably one of the best that I got is *Dinosaurs: How They Lived And Evolved*,...
2 years ago
Wunderkammer

Using Instagram to Incorporate Visitor Reactions - Originally posted on Hannah R.F. Hethmon: I’m currently on holiday in London for two weeks. Of course, as a DC native living in Nashville, I miss the capit...
2 years ago
The Liverbirder

Still 'Ere - Still birding, still focusing on the patch and still doing a bit of twitching if a Lifer appears. So far this year I've added: Penduline Tit 22/03/2016 Sal...
2 years ago
from the robin's nest...

Goat or grey? - A common question I ask myself is when encountering a willow with non-lanceolate shaped leaves would be: is it goat or grey willow? To confuse matters ev...
2 years ago
The Monday Pod

Lee Filters SW150 mark II filter holder with a 14-24mm and a big stopper - Last weekend I finally took my newly ordered Lee Filters SW150 mark II filter holder along with a big stopper out on a test. My Nikon 14-24mm is my favouri...
2 years ago
daphnegoeswildindevon

How extraordinary the ordinary can be... - I’ve been very preoccupied lately with tasks, with health concerns, with visitors, with my own visits to people, with just daily routine really, and I wa...
2 years ago
The Things Around Me

The firsts of spring - 20th March As the vernal equinox arrives and the changing of the clocks approaches, it is impossible not to take each seasonal event as a sign. The evidenc...
2 years ago
Will's Wildlife

A rare spot of birding - I used to think of myself as a bit of a birder, then I was a birder who looked at other wildlife, and these days it's the other wildlife that I look at mos...
2 years ago
Tales of the City

Fin. - I've been blogging here for many years now – since before I had anything published; before I even started writing a book. Fragments of things I wrote here ...
3 years ago
Norfolk Nature Photo Blog

A late flurry - Some friendly September weather did seem to bring out a small flurry of late emergences in some species who had a tough year like small coppers. Finger’s c...
3 years ago
The Gray Gallery / Nature through the lens

Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) - Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) captured mid-hover during an enjoyable afternoon spent at the International Centre for Birds of Prey in Newent, Gloucestershire...
3 years ago
WildChild Scotland

Mull Hen Harrier Day 2016 - Mull Hen Harrier Day 2016 Sunday 7th found us braving the very autumnal weather for the second year running on Mull. We were one of 12 national events acr...
3 years ago
What's Wild in Cornwall

The lonely ringlet, and other garden tales - Once upon a time, in a wild garden in the heart of Cornwall, there lived a ringlet. The hero of our tale loved to bask in the sunshine, spreading his velve...
3 years ago
Red on Wight

- I do not often come across Reds, but recently while in Bouldnor Forest this one made itself known.While keeping its distance and up the safety of the conif...
3 years ago
Garden 65

Unseen - I had an erotic dream about Chris Packham the other night. You know it's Springwatch time when you dream of Chris Packham. Not that in my waking hours I...
3 years ago
The Thrifty Magpies Nest

Birds nest in my wood this year - Discovering bird nests is one of my favourite spring past times and each year Ian, my step dad, and I seek out as many as we can in the wood. We have a ...
3 years ago
Wild Nottingham

NWT City Group June activities - The Notts Wildlife Trust City Local Group have several activities planned during June… Saturday 4th June – 10.00 a.m. – 2.00 p.m. Practical work party. Rem...
3 years ago
Wild up North

Red-backed Shrike at St Marys. - A male Red-backed Shrike made a brief appearance at St Marys, Whitley Bay today.
3 years ago
UKbirdingtimeline | an insight into the United Kingdom's birding season

You never stop learning! - Originally posted on naturestimeline: You never stop learning, well I also never stop undertaking my own research or following that of others. This post is...
3 years ago
Natural Communicator

Elements Of Nature: An afternoon with artist Carol Sinclair - Carol Sinclair's website portfolio Enjoy a studio visit, artist talk and nature walk at the home and studio of sculptor Carol Sinclair. Hear how nature ...
3 years ago
Herts Nature

Contoh Proposal Kegiatan Sekolah Terbaru 2016 -
3 years ago
Alan Tilmouth

The Last Eagle - It started with a question, 'has anyone seen the eagle?' followed by the long-expecetd news that England's last remaining resident Golden Eagle at Haweswat...
3 years ago
Photographing Dabbling Ducks

Gardening for Bumblebees - Spring is upon us and animals are emerging from hibernation. Our gardens are suddenly filled with impossibly loud buzzing from the tiniest creatures, but t...
3 years ago
Steel City Birding

Chandeliers for Elegant Home Decor - No other single item can compare with a crystal chandelier when it comes to adding a sense of elegance and formality to a living space. From the days wh...
3 years ago
Cranfield's Wildlife Blog

dragons have awoken in New Alresford -
3 years ago
SophiEco Goes Wild

New season, new look? - After success of my local patch blog's move to Wordpress, ( oakbytherifepatch.wordpress.com) this blog is following! Inspired by the new season, I too am ...
3 years ago
Wild Wanderings

Walking With Wolves - A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to walk with wolves in Cartmel, Lake District courtesy of Predator Experience. This walk was based just two mil...
3 years ago
The Heartwood Blog

Mobile Sawmill at Buckland Filleigh, Devon - Mobile Sawmill We’re now able to provide customers with locally sawn timber using our Peterson Winch Production Frame mobile sawmill, our goal is to help...
3 years ago
Wild Life

Spurge-laurel - Came across this growing by the side of a path on our way to the Half Moon in Plumpton. It also caught the eye of our friend who was vi...
3 years ago
The Rambling Ecologist

Te Araroa 10: Te Anau to Bluff - Morning all, Welcome to the final installment (baring some random additional content if I think of anything worth writing about) of my Te Araroa journey, f...
3 years ago
Tales from Fox Cottage and The Bee Hive Studio

- The Sounds of Spring Stirrings It was a rather overcast but dry day in February, about a fortnight ago. That morning found me and my two dogs walking u...
3 years ago
Jake's Bones

All good things... - I've been blogging now at least once a week for six years and seven months, and this is my 416th blog post here. It's been an exhausting, brilliant and ama...
3 years ago
Wild Valleys

Daudebardia rufa - Been itching to get out with the Glamorgan Fungus Group ever since it was reformed back in April 2014. Not only for the fungi but a chance to find new site...
3 years ago
Wild Reviews

Criminalising natural curiosity - We’re so far detached from nature that we no longer allow adults or children to connect. We’re a no touch, ‘no can do’ species these days and we’re doing a...
3 years ago
Once Upon

Besmirched Birch - Stop press. You know how I mentioned that I had valiantly 'taken on' an allotment plot, yes, remember?....ok..one of the attractive features of this par...
3 years ago
At Home With Urban Nature

BTO: Goldfinch feeding survey - [image: Goldfinches by Paul Newton] Goldfinches by Paul Newton. Submit your resultsfor the Goldfinch Survey *"Like you, we love watching Goldfinches. You tel...
3 years ago
Oscar Dewhurst Wildlife Photography

Looking back at 2015 - 2015 was another year where my photography was sporadic, mainly due to university commitments where I was doing my second year at Durham. In fact my first ...
3 years ago
21st Century Naturalist

The First Irish Trees - The wettest winter on record has finally brought us a cold snap. Temperatures that were touching the mid-teens have finally reverted to the winter norm and...
3 years ago
Micro moths of Kent

50 not out - A few more early stage searches over the weekend, around home and Barham Downs/Higham Park, has brought my year list to 50 species, my quickest half centur...
3 years ago
Doorstep Birding

New Year Flower Hunt - 1st January 2016 The Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland invites people every year to undertake a New Year Plant survey. The idea is to find as many f...
3 years ago
Chasing Tails - A wildlife photographer's blog

Bird on a stick -
3 years ago
Compare the Marsh Tit

Home - On a ridge above the Himalayan hamlet of Ulley a snow leopard walks through deep snow. The asiatic ibex on the next ridge stare in alarm but return to gra...
3 years ago
Jason Ridge Photography

New - A new website deserves a new lens and some new photographs. Hello, welcome to my brand new website and blog. As you can see i have completely re-designed t...
3 years ago
Wings and Things

Fracking idiots - Yesterday the Bullingdon club and associates (parliament) voted through a change in legislation to allow hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to take place ...
3 years ago
Austin Thomas Photography - Blog

This years Photographic Safari to Kenya was a roaring success… - I am recently back from my 2015 trip to the Maasai Mara where once again, the wildlife and photographic opportunities did not disappoint. Leopards galore...
3 years ago
Duckwoman's Diary

I only ever get pigeons! - People are always coming to tell me that they put out food to attract birds but they only ever get pigeons. If this sounds like you then you'll be pleased ...
3 years ago
The Occasional Birder

Scotland 2015 Part 2 - Fort William and beyond - Back on the mainland, and we headed to Fort William for the next stage of our trip where we had one destination in mind, Allt Mhuic. About 20 minutes out...
3 years ago
Nature North East

Moving On! - My journey, it seems, has come to an untimely end, on Google Blogger at least. I am very pleased to announce my Nature North East website is now officially...
3 years ago
Roby Milling

It's Raining DNA, Hallelujah - Common Vetch Rosebay Willow Herb Broad leaved Dock The fact that ‘Wild Flowers’ are so called tells us a lot about the way we view nature. They are named ...
3 years ago
Blog Natur y Draenog Gwyrdd

Curlew - 30th August Nevern Estuary - high tide sunny, dry I saw a Curlew here just where the left bank meets the river. It flew off eventually with a 'curlew' ca...
4 years ago
wirral bird

Ferns - Each evening I followed the same routine – alight the train, walk down the narrow passageway, cross the road, follow the pavement to a T junction, turn rig...
4 years ago
Trent Valley Beetles

Cynthia and Erica - Picture says it all, Budby Heath Nottinghamshire, *Cynthia cardui* on Heather, Also photographs of Peacocks and Small Tortoiseshell feeding on the heather ...
4 years ago
Rock N' Roll Birder

Cresswell & Snab Point (23rd August 2015) - Great weather so Mrs Y and I decided to have a quick trip up the coast, trying to avoid the crowds. First up went spent 30 minutes at Snab Point, although...
4 years ago
Ben's Birds and Beastly Bugs

Summer update - Sorry I have not posted for a while. Here are a some photos that I have taken in different places over the last few months. All are taken in France apart ...
4 years ago
Wildlife Conservation

Anti Hunting - 'Trophy' Hunting, Hunting for 'Sport' - [image: Cecil - Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe by Vince O] [image: Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic License] by Vi...
4 years ago
Victoria Hillman Nature Photography Blog

Maltese Wall Lizards - As I was writing my post about our trip to Gozo earlier in the year I realised that I did in fact take a lot of photos of Maltese wall lizards (*Podarcis f...
4 years ago
Hedge Britannia

Freeman’s Wood, Lancaster - I’ve just been contacted by John Angus about a really interesting project on land ownership near Lancaster: I will let him explain and give the link: I am ...
4 years ago
Holywell Birding

30 Days of Wild - Day 10 - Patch - Having a patch is where it all began for me, starting from the bottom up, learning the basics, learning the patterns of annual cycles and seasons, and t...
4 years ago
Birding Blog

Beautiful Bluebells - Visited a local woodland a few weeks ago to photograph the bluebells.
4 years ago
Beyond the Riverbank

Gran Canaria: Sharks, Sun Cream & Cats - Sun cream. The first day of the trip to Gran Canaria to find and hopefully film angel sharks, included the need to rub sun cream into the three bald patc...
4 years ago
The Den of Wild Intrigue

The Enrapture of Nature and True Love - What does it take to be effortlessly stolen away from ‘yourself’; to not just be passively content, but to be enraptured? To feel that child-like, mischiev...
4 years ago
Gillian Dinsmore’s Bird Ringing Blog

Eggciting News! - [image: WP_20150507_031] The gulls seem to be picking up the pace now down at the main study site for The Galloway Common Gull Study. After checking a se...
4 years ago
The Wilder Garden

Slow going - The great thing about a blog is that it becomes your memory. Mine isn't great, and I lose track of time. So, I can remember taking out the last of the Leya...
4 years ago
Myky Speaks

Why I Do - Well, it’s been a while. Over a year in fact. A lot has happened in that time, both good and bad. I’m not going to bore you by going through it all, suffic...
4 years ago
Matt Gould's Wildlife Photography

Toad in a pond - I am currently house sitting for a month and I am surrounded by cool and interesting wildlife, on the first evening I saw a deer in the garden (which had g...
4 years ago
Liz Morrison's Wildlife Conservation Blog | The joyful ramblings of a budding conservation ecologist!

In Anticipation of Spring. - Last week took us to the end of February and with it the end of the woodland work that we routinely carry out in winter on the Pitsford reserve, avoiding d...
4 years ago
Parus

Very. Slow. Progress. - So February ends (or will have done by the next opportunity I'll have to raise bins) and I'm halfway to my projected "oh fuck it" date. During February I a...
4 years ago
In the Countryside

Our place in nature - There has been much discussion over the years about our place within the natural world; are we part of nature or apart from it? Some authors have suggested...
4 years ago
Wild About...

Box End Park WeBS: 18/01/2015 - It was Great Duck Hunt day in Bedfordshire so everyone was out counting wildfowl at the local waterways. This is done to try to get an overall view of the ...
4 years ago
Tarka Challenge

Lesser Stag Beetle - Whilst I was collecting the eggs from my chickens I noticed this small beetle lying dead on the floor, so I picked it up and brought it to my desk to s...
4 years ago
The Official Blog of British Wildlife

British Wildlife Publishing & Bloomsbury – An Announcement - Hello, A very happy new year to you all. Before returning to normal service with posts about all aspects of British natural history and wildlife, we have a...
4 years ago
Birdie Num Num

Woodnook, Season 3, Episode 1. - *30/11/2014 - Wentworth, Woodnook* By heck it was good to be back ringing at Woodnook this morning! Gorgeous sunrise on what could have been a Spring morn...
4 years ago
Wild About Bungay

Autumn bouquet - Castle Hills, Bungay October 17th, 2014 These photos of Castle Hills were taken in mid October, when several wild flowers were still in bloom, including Bu...
4 years ago
Mid Cheshire Barn Owls

Late Second Brood - A late brood of Barn Owls was ringed this afternoon which matched the record of 2013 as the latest brood that I have ringed; unlike last year though when t...
4 years ago
Wild Times

Hoopoe - Despite a howling gale, I was pleased to be able to capture some pleasing images of this marvellous bird - a first for the village.
4 years ago
Joe Wynn Photography

Scilly Birding - I'll refrain from using the obvious pun for the duration of this post, which I can assure you is no mean feat of self-restraint. I planned to visit the Isl...
4 years ago
Life's Grandeur

Dipping out - I think it's about time I made it official and placed this website in indefinite hiatus. ‘Life's Grandeur’ is a cool domain name, so I might well return to...
5 years ago
The Lilac Grove

Hot, Hot, Hot - What a warm couple of weeks! It's been lovely and has brought out lots of moths and insects which is wonderful it see. But it can also cause problems. The ...
5 years ago
A Warbler A Day

June/July Highlights - I’m sorry about the lack of updates recently. The World Cup and a busy time at work have rather got in the way. I have managed to get some nature walks in ...
5 years ago
GJGPhotography

Summer catch up - Hi – I’ve rather neglected my blog, and my website this year, so this is just a short word to say that I have been taking a break from the camera while I t...
5 years ago
The Bristol Wildlife Blog

The Uskmouth Savi’s Warbler - A Savi’s Warbler (Locustella luscinioides) at the RSPB’s Uskmouth Nature Reserve has now entered the third week of its stay. The bird was found by Mathew M...
5 years ago
natureoncam

Alaska, western Canada and the Rockies - A trip overview - From the 5th of May until yesterday the 4th of June, I have been travelling through the places as shown above by cruise liner, ferry boat and RV better kno...
5 years ago
Steve's Birding And Wildlife Blog

The Big Count....MSQ,Sunday 18.05.2014. - As the title suggests i was hoping for a big count of Odonata on my visit to the Sand Quarries today and didn't fair too badly with the most Hairy's record...
5 years ago
Downland Views

Lambing 2014 - As promised a post about this year's lambing... With many hours of hard work and 4 am starts I am proud to say there are now 46 healthy, happy lambs runnin...
5 years ago
Bogbumper

Boops boops - I was feeling sad until I found out that there's a fish with the Latin name Boops boops — Amy Schwartz (@lizardschwartz) April 26, 2014
5 years ago
Natural Ramblings

Ten Thousand Birds ornithology since Darwin by Tim Burkhead, Jo Wimpenny, Bob Montgomerie Book review - Ten Thousand Birds Ornithology since Darwin By Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny, Bob Montgomerie Those of you that know me, know Im passionate about wildlife pa...
5 years ago
The Hardy Green Project

Where the Chaff are the Finches?? - There hasn't been too much activity in the garden recently, the Sunflower Hearts are being eaten mostly by great, blue and coat tits, who don't like stayin...
5 years ago
The Museum of Curiosities

Programming swarm intelligence - Incidentally, exploring swarm intelligence isn't terribly difficult if you know a bit of programming... when I was experimenting with it, I just used VBA a...
5 years ago
Natural Adventures

Simon King Wildlife - Having not posted for a while I thought I would do an update on the project I am currently working on. I have recently started working as an assistant for ...
5 years ago
Wiltshire Wildlife - Morgan's Hill

@WiltsWildlife - Winter Scrub Clearance in Morgan's Hill Quarry - This winter has, so far, been relatively mild, but there is still an awful lot of work to do up on the reserve. Because of the difficulty in getting cattle...
5 years ago
Beyond the Human Eye

An insect bibliophile - *I found this little insect, which is less than two millimetres long, in a bag of walnuts imported from France. It's a psocid, commonly known as a booklo...
5 years ago
The Isle of May NNR blog

The Isle of May NNR blog is moving to a new site - The Isle of May blog was Scotland's first National Nature Reserve blog and has been so successful that other National Nature Reserves are following our...
5 years ago
Birds, Bees and Outer Hebrides

Marsh Sandpiper on North Uist, 30th December 2013 - On the afternoon of 30th December whilst out birding with John Kemp we came across an odd, medium sized wader in a flood pool on the machair near Kyles Pai...
5 years ago
Imogen's Attic.... an artist's online sketchbook

- Hello all, just to let you know I have been very busy working under my own name of Jenny McLaren- and because working under two names is getting a bit com...
5 years ago
Earthfast Images

New fungi photos - I've updated the 'Fungi' section of my portfolio. Recent additions include 'Porcelain Fungus' and 'Giant Puffball'. See www.rogerbutterfield.co.uk/fungi [...
5 years ago
Wild Places Blog

25th September, Camino de Santiago, Azofra to Santo Domingo de Calzada, 15.2km - A pleasant but felt like a long walk to the very bizarre small town of Cirueña – the first cafe stop of the day. Cirueña seems to be made up of deserted ho...
5 years ago
Back Garden Wildlife

Resilient Nature - I really enjoy this time of year in a temperate climate where nature provides a bounty for all to enjoy. My back garden is full of apples at the moment. ...
6 years ago
Flora Cantiaci

An unusual conglomeration of wildflowers - I've been staying in Bridgnorth this week. Looking north-east from High Town you can see a bare cliff, called, unimaginatively, High Rock. A walk up clearl...
6 years ago
Ann Kelley - On The Edge

POND - ALDERFLY?
6 years ago
Bernwood Forest Bechstein's Project

Bernwood Forest Bechstein's Project 2013 - Another year and another season getting to know our local Bechstein's bats. We've spent the winter getting data sorted and embarking on new projects as we...
6 years ago
Birding in Over

An afternoon at the lakes - Here are a few photos from a couple of hours that I spent walking around the lakes, whilst Holly was at the Wildlife Explorers group. Egyptian goose - one ...
6 years ago
The Hesitant Weasel...

SNOW BOARING#2 the night they came home… - Early morning, its not quite dark and its far from warm – but the wild is a hardy beast, so off we go, pre brekkers to get the traps back (regular readers ...
6 years ago
Wolvobirder's Nature Blog

Highgate Common, Belvide and garden birds - *7th to 14th April 2013* Apologies for the long absence. I managed to get out and about a bit last week to do a spot of bird watching and grabbed some pho...
6 years ago
ShySongbird's Nature News

Small Signs of Spring - As the weather here in the UK has been bad for so long I haven't had many opportunities to get out with the camera but I thought I would post some of the...
6 years ago
Wild Watching

Some more otterel - The poet Keats does not mention otters in his light-hearted doggerel dedicated to the river Teign (shown below as it looked today). Their absence from Ke...
6 years ago
Lockington Moth News

Moths of Lincolnshire - [image: Bookmark and Share] [image: Nature Blog Network] Click here to return to Moth News [image: Robinson Trap Blacklight] Robinson Trap with 26W CFL ...
6 years ago
A Walk on the Wild Side

New Post, New Images and Imminent Floods! - It's been a long time since I posted on here... but I have spent today loading lots of new photos onto the pages of this blog.... so that now, if you tak...
6 years ago
Lighthouse Journal

- We've moved! As many of you know, we're now the Wardens of Skokholm Island. It's a fantastic place, Britain's first Bird Observatory, home to Britain's den...
6 years ago
According to GaiaBird

Secret ministry - This morning we stepped out into a bright wintry landscape, every branch, blade of grass and building sheathed in a fine layer of frost. Small birds jostle...
6 years ago
Urban Tails

A Year in Trees- part I - Since moving to Scotland and hearing about the majestic Caledonian Pine Forests I have rediscovered my love of trees. Learning about trees is possibly one ...
6 years ago
Feral Pigeon Project

We’ve moved!! Come and join us on our new website. - Hi folks, Just a quicky to say that the Feral Pigeon Project has MOVED! We now have our own dedicated website and blog and we’d love you to join us there. ...
6 years ago
Wildlife of Breen Oakwood

Cock Pheasant - * * * * * * * * * To learn more about *Pheasants*, visit *RSPB ~ Pheasants* * * * * * * * * *
6 years ago
Graham Hush

Swan feed, at the WWT Welney -
6 years ago
Borstal Heath Wildlife Blog

Ash Panic - Maure Juana is our treasured Borstal Heath hippy – bless her. She was middle aged in the 60s but is still peddling the peace and love, even though a littl...
6 years ago
Wildlife Imaging Blog

Combe Hill Wildlife - First Bramblings of the year. - Over the weekend we had our first Bramblings visit us this winter and also again today. Both times it was a couple of females with no sign of a male yet. N...
6 years ago
IOW Birder

Red Squirrels V Buzzards: A Dilema ... - Hi everyone, Ive just received an e-mail from BBC South, who are following up reports of buzzard attacks on red squirrels, here on the island. They are do...
6 years ago
Big Cat Detective

Muntjac sniffing about. HD with sound..Pt 3 -
6 years ago
Writes for nature

A sign of the times - It is the autumn equinox today. The day the the Equator teeters beneath the Sun before the Earth tips our northern lands over into the darker days. And wha...
6 years ago
The Happy Conservationist

Survey photos... - And finally some photographs from my surveying exploits... Peacock butterfly (*Inachis io*) Common Darter (*Sympetrum striolatum*) Dark Bush-cricket (male)...
7 years ago
Pod's World

HERE ENDETH THE FIRST CHAPTER - *THAT'S ALL FROM THE POD'S WORLD BLOG FOLKS...* *MY NEW BLOG ENTITLED POD'S WORLD 2 CAN BE FOUND AT...* *www.patchbirder2.blogspot.com* *A BIG THANK YOU T...
7 years ago
kirkstall creatures great and small

North Cave Wetlands (2) - More sightings from North Cave Wetlands, nice to see this *Common Blue* butterfly as I've seen so few this year. Although *Brown Argus* are present at N...
7 years ago
Anglesey Wild Flower Meadow

Meadow changing from yellow to purple and pink - The meadow is now changing from mainly yellow and white to purple pink and white . The Ox Eye Daisies have now gone to seed as has the Birds Foot Trefoi...
7 years ago
One Step Beyond

A Familiar, Slipper and Birds Eye - [image: P1060359] *Lady’s Slipper Orchid (part of the reintroduction programme)* Officially declared extinct in 1917 due to over zealous Victorian co...
7 years ago
A Scientist in the Making

Salamandrus - All hail the newt God Salamandrus! He is kind and provides the exquisite harvest of Triturus cristatus when you least expect it, He is vengeful withholding...
7 years ago
ticehurst moths

Barred Umber - My 2012 spring visit to the Weald was so cold and wet that I did not record any moths. But whilst looking for something else I have just found this phot...
7 years ago
The Northumberland Naturalist

Mull Birds - During my recent tour of the west coast of Scotland, I spent an enjoyable six days on Mull. My list of birds for the sixteen days I was away numbered eight...
7 years ago
Nature Writing Notes

Swallows & Swifts - Swallow & butterfly motifs - Hirano Shrine, Kyoto, Japan. There’s something special about swallows. I’m not quite sure what it is: that they migr...
7 years ago
Islay Birder

12th May,2012. - This site is no longer in use. Please see http://www.birdingodyssey.blogspot.com/ for all entries and sign up as a Follower.. Many thanks, John Ar...
7 years ago
Beyond the Tweets

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7 years ago
The Malvern Birder

New Site - New Blog - New Blog - I've now incorporated my blog with my new site. The blog here now will be closed - I thought it was about time I started writing about my outin...
7 years ago
Garden Birds

Parklife - It’s been a while since we updated this blog. In autumn of 2011, we moved from the house, where over several years we turned a garden that when we first a...
7 years ago
Sandy Wildlife

Valediction - Hello and thank you to everybody who has visited my Sandy Wildlife blog. I've recently moved from Bedfordshire to East Kent, so the time has come for me t...
7 years ago
Stand and Stare

As I was saying... - My, how time flies when you are not having fun. Now...where was I? Oh yes - rhynchokinesis - otherwise known as handy-bendy-beak syndrome. I have touch...
7 years ago
Birding On Wheels

Canada Goose, Branta canadendus , enigma - In last autumn I had been at one of my favourite spots along the bay, when I heard a lot of noise and saw a of Geese arriving and spotted them lan...
7 years ago
Norfolk'n Birds

how wordpress sells your soul - Do you use wordpress to blog? Thought it a little less contentious than the ever-expanding über information-hoarder that is google/blogger? WordPress wo...
7 years ago
Phil Coles - Natural History Blog

- The view from the Worminghall home office window – January 24th 2012! This is a first for me but certainly not for others; Siskin ( Carduelis spinus - http:...
7 years ago
Accidental Nature

Secret Seals of the South East - Recently I was a guest presenter on BBC 2’S Autumnwatch, tracking down the secret seals of the South East. This population of grey and common seals, ran...
7 years ago
Clewer Garden Diary

A few birds feeding in our garden - This female blackcap (sylvia atricapilla) was feeding on honeysuckle berries outside our dining room window. and we have had a robin on our fat feeder and ...
7 years ago
Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn

Two Noctuidae Moths - The Square Spot Rustic and The Setaceous Hebrew Character - I am an amateur naturalist trying to discover everything living in my garden. Some time ago I blogged (here and here for example) my homebuilt mothtrap. I...
7 years ago
Beneath the Stream

Owl vs. Goose: Winner Takes All - Our perception of the natural world continues to take its place as the virtue that divides mankind. But what these perceptions represent has changed and ...
7 years ago
Focus On Wildlife

Trench Wood - More Butterflies - At this time of year at Trench Wood the rides are lined with Scabious in full flower and the insects flock to the abundant flower heads to feed, especia...
8 years ago
Scottish Wildlife Blog

Kildonan, Isle of Arran - On this visit to Kildonan I went rockpooling and focused primarily on photographing the denizens of the deep! This blog entry is divided into shore sectio...
8 years ago
Penny Bun

How Blipfoto changed my life - for 50 days. - I've been neglecting my blog again, but this time I think I have a slightly better excuse than usual. Last time I mentioned that I was aiming to try to pho...
8 years ago
The Badger's Eye

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Seeds for Rewilding

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Not Just Birding

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Roots'n'Shoots

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Love our Lakes and Parks

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