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Friday, 30 December 2011

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A warm welcome to our newest member: The Verdant Blog.
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Friday, 23 December 2011

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A warm welcome to our newest member: Ron Bury's Wildlife.
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Thursday, 22 December 2011

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A warm welcome to our newest member: Murf's Wildlife.
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Monday, 19 December 2011

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A warm welcome to our newest member: Seabed Habitats.
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  • Joe Wynn Photography
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  • Ryan Clark Nature Photography
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  • :: Wild Places Blog ::
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  • Pam's Place
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  • Rock N' Roll Birder
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  • naturestimeline
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  • The Early Birder
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  • In the Countryside
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  • Norfolk Nature Photo Blog
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  • Oscar Dewhurst Wildlife Photography
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  • Geltsdale Wildlife Warrior
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    2 months ago
  • Steel City Birding
    I've moved... - I’ve merged all my wildlife blogs scattered about the Internet, and moved home to Wordpress. http://sheffieldwildlife.wordpress.com
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  • Beyond the Human Eye
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    2 months ago
  • The Wild Photographer
    Trench wood - Just back from a short walk in trench wood because they claimed that they had some lesser spotted woodpeckers, some woodcocks and marsh tit but i didn't se...
    2 months ago
  • Ian McCall
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  • Tory Island Bird Blog
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    2 months ago
  • Lockington Moth News
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  • Flora Cantiaci
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    2 months ago
  • 21stcenturynaturalist
    A Personable Little Bug - Firebug, *Pyrrhocoris apterus* As I progress through life, my opinions and outlook has changed, in a way that I would like to think is more mature. One thin...
    3 months ago
  • Jane Smith Wildlife Art
    Corncrake Chess - Screenprint made in the studio - edition of 4. Black and white players are moving across the flat chequerboard of fields on Oronsay. They are pawns in a l...
    3 months ago
  • WillowWhispering
    Nature Tales - I’ve just finished reading a lovely book: ‘Nature Tales: Encounters with Britain’s Wildlife’. It’s a collection of essays written by nature writers from t...
    3 months ago
  • Seeds for Rewilding
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    3 months ago
  • Lee Brady's Recording Blog
    Butterfly Effect Halts Plans for 500 Homes - Mr Woodfield took legal action over concerns Cherwell District Council had failed to comply with Environmental Impact Assessment regulations... ... Council s...
    3 months ago
  • The Urban Countryman
    Winter Woodland Wonderland - The forecast snow duly arrived, gradually [...]
    3 months 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...
    3 months 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...
    3 months ago
  • Natural Adventures
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    3 months ago
  • According to GaiaBird
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    4 months ago
  • Urban Tails
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    4 months ago
  • Compare the Marsh Tit
    The last post - Jaques (Act IV scene i): […] *but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplat...
    4 months 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. ...
    4 months ago
  • Wildlife of Breen Oakwood
    Cock Pheasant - * * * * * * * * * To learn more about *Pheasants*, visit *RSPB ~ Pheasants* * * * * * * * * *
    5 months ago
  • Graham Hush
    Swan feed, at the WWT Welney -
    5 months ago
  • The Regional Tick
    The Trilogy - Anybody still looking at this should know I am back, but on another channel so to speak, love you to have a look. All kicks off on Jan1st 2013, have a look...
    5 months ago
  • wirral bird
    A derelict church - It is mid November and the factories of tourism are closed. Guest houses have no vacancies and no occupants; tea rooms and cafรฉs are dark and lifeless...
    5 months ago
  • The Living Isle
    Something Else the Romans Did for Us - We can thank the Romans for the beauty of Sweet Chestnut leaves currently lighting up the woods - they introduced it. What with our native Ash under attack f...
    6 months 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 months ago
  • Alcester Nature Photography
    Mighty Oak - A few more shots from yesterdays walk along the River Arrow, a couple of old Oak trees and another one of the Arrow from inside the nature reserve in ...
    6 months 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 months ago
  • UKbirdingtimeline | an insight into the United Kingdom's birding season
    Could it be a Waxwing winter? - Anybody with access to the various bird news services will be aware of the increasing numbers of these northern Vikings. As true inhabitants of arctic and ...
    6 months 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 months ago
  • Cranfield's Wildlife Blog
    Make the adder count on the #Recordpool - A mini website designed to enable reporting of spring counts of adders over February to June.
    6 months ago
  • Wader Watch
    Redshank - *Redshank* A common wader with instantly recognisable red legs.
    7 months ago
  • bigcatdetective
    Muntjac sniffing about. HD with sound..Pt 3 -
    7 months 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...
    8 months ago
  • The Heartwood Blog
    Sculptural Trellis using Cleft Chestnut - Sculptural Trellis Here are some photos of a bespoke trellis fence that is made from cleft Sweet Chestnut batons and rinded small diameter poles. Part of...
    8 months 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)...
    8 months ago
  • Wild Times
    Great Flocks! - When seen in large flocks, birds create quite a spectacle! I was made aware of this White Stork flock by a passing motorist while photographing waders alon...
    8 months ago
  • Pod's World
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  • 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 Nor...
    8 months ago
  • My Nature Scrapbook
    Close Encounters - Here are some of the friends we made during our recent camping trip: A Cinnabar Moth Caterpillar, who seemed intent on reaching the top of our umbrella as ...
    9 months 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 ...
    10 months ago
  • Roots'n'Shoots
    Aune Orchard Wild Camping - Come and Stay! - And there it is! We stand at the top of the orchard and look down, between the trees, towards the bell tent. It glimmers white amongst the amazing verdure...
    10 months ago
  • Keepers Cottage Wildlife Garden Diary
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    10 months 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...
    11 months 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...
    11 months 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...
    11 months ago
  • The Birds In The Meadow
    Orchids underfoot - So I guess I’ve telegraphed the punchline there, calling my blog post “orchids underfoot”. Well who cares, I’m in a big hurry to show you what I found toda...
    11 months 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...
    11 months 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...
    1 year ago
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  • A Highland Naturalist's Diary
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  • 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...
    1 year 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...
    1 year 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...
    1 year 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...
    1 year 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...
    1 year ago
  • The Street Tree
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    1 year ago
  • Scottish Wildlife Blog
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