UK and Ireland Natural History Bloggers: July 2012

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Hemel Birding

Male KESTREL, RED KITE & BUZZARD around N Gadebridge Park / Piccotts End area. -
49 minutes ago
Wilden Marsh

Fiddlehead. - Sunrise: 05.57 Sunset: 08.19Filed under: Wild Plants, Wilden Marsh Nature Reserve, Wildlife Photography Tagged: Canon 500D DSLR camera., Canon EFS 60 mm f2...
59 minutes ago
Ecology Escapades

If You Go Down To The Woods Today… - … You’re in for wonderful sight! At this time of year many woodlands are carpeted with blues and purples, the glorious colours of bluebells. We visited Ste...
1 hour ago
NI Bird Pics

Anne Guichard - Linnet -
2 hours ago
Birding For Pleasure

Manx Shearwater Birds on Copeland Island - We had to wait until it was very dark, about 10.30pm. before going out and we were well wrapped up with warm clothes on to look for Manx Shearwater birds. ...
4 hours ago
Wildlife Wanderings

Lower Woods spectacular - NEITHER of us remember Lower Woods, in south Gloucestershire ever looking more spectacular. It is really difficult to describe the all embracing assault o...
11 hours ago
Rambles with a Camera

Our Bank Holiday trip along the River Weaver...................... on the Arctic Star - I have already posted about this years first boat trip on the River Weaver... Mandy's Dad's boat... Arctic Star moored at Duttons Lock. I took some v...
11 hours ago
Sissinghurst Birds etc...

Another catch-up - It is still a struggle to find new arrivals here at the moment but they are still coming, COMMON WHITETHROATS are now up to 4 and there are now 2 NIGHTINGA...
13 hours ago
Pam's Place

Rodley Nature Reserve - This was at the end of March, we picked a good day and spent nearly 4 hours here. We checked out every hide, every pond & basically every nook and cranny w...
13 hours ago
The Early Birder

First Damsel of the season. - During a brief patch walk at Epsom Common this morning I spotted my first damsel of the season, a female *Large Red Damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula)*and to...
13 hours ago
Lancashire and Lakeland Outback Adventure Wildlife Safaris

Ladybird ladybird whence forth comest thou - *The Safari is fairly* certain we've got the words to a popular nursery rhyme and/or a bit of Willie Waggledagger quite wrong there. After a bit of overnigh...
14 hours ago
Appleton Wildlife Diary

Tree creeper and bluebells - As we walked along a footpath through the woods a bird flew out from nowhere straight infront of us. We spotted a nest inside a hawthorn tree so we sat and...
14 hours ago
Austin's Birding Blog

21/04/2014 Morecambe - Eider: From Leighton Moss Dawn and her gran took a trip to the bay for an ice cream and a sit in the sun. Looking at the amount of Redstarts, Ouzels and e...
15 hours ago
Killy Birder

Fulmars, Butterflies and Warblers - 21st April. Sam and I took the chance to look at the *Fulmars* at close range again during another Holywell to St Mary’s Island walk. The tubenoses wer...
17 hours ago
Steve's Birding And Wildlife Blog

Return To The Sand Quarries....Monday 21.04.2014. - With a decent forecast in prospect today i headed down the M180 to Messingham and the gem of a reserve that is Messingham Sand Quarries managed by the Linc...
17 hours ago
NI Birds

Bird News Tuesday 22nd April - Dargan Bay this morning had 950 Black-tailed Godwit, 30 Knot and 80 Dunlin. The Belfast Harbour area - (D3) had 260 Golden Plover. RSPB Belfast Harbour Res...
18 hours ago
Bill's Birding

Comparing moths - I have thousands of images of moths on my laptop. There, I said it. It's not a fact that I'm proud of, but I had to get that off my chest. The number of ph...
18 hours ago
Keith Balmer on six legs...

Waiting for the sun... - A bee in my bee hotel, doing the same as me, wondering if the sun is ever going to come out?
20 hours ago
Notes of Nature

James Wong's Homegrown Revolution by James Wong - This book has introduced me to so many different food plants. Some I've known forever, but hadn't realised that they had edible parts, such as the berries ...
20 hours ago
Random Jottings

Black and Blue - In the hope that I can cheer up a wet and dull day, I thought I would look at two of the best indicators of Spring to brighten things up a bit. Firstly, t...
21 hours ago
An English Wood

Blue Butcher - Early Purple Orchid, Orchis mascula. “Blue […]
21 hours ago
Tricia's Tales

St John Passion - a first visit.. - For sometime I've been looking forward to a visit to Saffron Hall which is a brand new concert hall attached to a school in Saffron Walden. So Pete and I ...
1 day ago
Midmarsh Jottings

Dunnocks, Great Tits and Hedgehogs - Three videos today: I though I had spotted the occasional bird inside the Hedgehog House and suspected it may have been a Dunnock as I have often noticed ...
1 day ago
Thorne & Hatfield Moors Conservation News

Malta Massacre on Migration …. an appeal by Chris Packham. - So what has Malta to do with the Moors? Quite possibly we have less birds visiting us because some are lost on migration to mindless murderers in Malta? Y...
1 day ago
The Wilder Garden

One swallow - Doesn't make a summer, I know. But it does make my weekend. I've just been out to the garage and though it's dark, cold and rainy now there is good news - ...
1 day ago
The Lilac Grove

Everything’s Emerging - It's getting busier here now with lots of hedgehogs appearing in the garden. The health checks will have to start now. I've already seen some returnees tha...
1 day ago
Cholsey Wildlife

A wet one. - Thunderstorms, 15º, light variable. We arrived on the hill this afternoon just prior to a thunderstorm moving overhead so we sat in the car for around 30...
1 day ago
A Warbler A Day

Both Ends of the Test Way - Thankfully I appeared to miss the rain that was forecast this weekend and was able to take some nice nature walks. On Saturday I went up to Coombe Gibbet, ...
1 day ago
Natural Born Blogger

The Town Hall Clock - Moschatel or The Town Hall Clock An easily overlooked plant typically found along woodland edges on limestone or chalk rich soil. Fortunately around the ed...
1 day ago
Alan Tilmouth

21st April - I was pleased I made the effort of an early-ish morning sea-watch this morning with four new species for the year in an hour and a half that was packed wit...
1 day ago
Views from an urban lake

Swallows and Scooters - Peacock Butterfly - Loughton Valley Park, Milton Keynes. Let me just make it clear the title is indeed Swallows and Scooters, and not scoters (the sea duck...
1 day ago
Valley Naturalist

Shouting from the rooftops, lamp posts, car parks........ - Richard Clarke's fine study of the breeding gulls in Gwent published in the 2007 Gwent Bird Report traces the extent these birds have colonised the urban...
1 day ago
The Cowboy Birder

Plugging away - Having recently missed out on quality patch birds in the form of *Osprey*, *Ring Ouzel* and *Common Redstart *I had high hopes for the long Easter bank hol...
1 day ago
The Barley Bird-er

Colour-ringed Godwits at Manor Farm Country Park - April 2014 - This morning I nipped down to Manor Farm Country Park to check out the route in preparation for my dawn chorus walk there next Sunday, 27th April. It was ...
1 day ago
Wild About Bungay

Pond life - Saturday, April 19th, 2014 Wingfield Street, Bungay The honeybees in our garden in Wingfield Street have been enjoying the apple (pictured) and cherry blos...
1 day ago
Trent Valley Beetles

Best looking Flower in the Garden - Had to post a picture of this flower. I think it's *Tulipa saxitilis. *I planted these in the garden about 15 years ago. They decide to flower about on...
1 day ago
Frank Anderson Photography

Catching a Wave - A dull, overcast day is not ideal for wildlife photography but for landscape/seascapes the flat, diffused light can be good especially for using the lo...
1 day ago
Hampshire Dragonflies

Beautiful Smells and Demoiselles - Since my last post we’ve had a couple of disappointing days; firstly Bentley Wood, where if I’m honest we jumped the gun a little on the butterflies. The (...
1 day ago
Steve Ashton Wildlife Photography

Stodmarsh, Grove and Elmley. - The past few weeks have been a bit hard going with not much to photograph and enthusiasm levels close to nil. A few images from the Reed bed hide, nothing ...
1 day ago
The Lyons Den

True (Nature) Detective - Before you read this post, you HAVE to listen to this. An amazing song for an amazing TV show, that has absolutely nothing to do with wildlife other than...
1 day ago
Matt Cole Wildlife Photography

PhotoPlus Magazine - I'm very pleased to have the back page of the current issue of PhotoPlus magazine devoted to one of my Common Blue butterfly images. The accompanying text ...
1 day ago
Isle of Wight Dragons

Choosing Your Spot. - Following a wet and dismal Sunday today has started bright and sunny,and the first adult male Large Red Damselfly has taken up station at my garden pond.
1 day ago
Doorstep Birding

Redstart a great start to the weekend - Having identified a little bit of the patch as a potentially good spot for picking up a migrant or two, I was more than very pleased with myself when it di...
1 day ago
Brian's Birding Blog

One for two ton! - Well the Easter weekend if closing in and it's been quite good to me. Dotterel and Ring Ouzel the undoubted highlights but also good to catch my first Sand...
1 day ago
The Early Birder

Snipe - Titchwell - I love to see the Snipe, and was treated to a ridiculously close encounter from one of the hides at Titchwell last week. Almost oblivious to my presence bu...
1 day ago
The Monday Pod

‘The Avon Gorge’ – a nature documentary - Why hello there, and a wishing you all a very happy chocolate-eating holiday! It’s been far too long since I’ve written on this blog, and I sincerely apolo...
2 days ago
FABirding

Stonechat. - After a lot of head scratching I very recently raided the savings and upgraded my cheaper Cannon 70-300mm 'kit' lens to the EF70-300mm f4-5.6L IS USM lens...
2 days ago
Murmuration

Yellow Fever - There's something synesthetic about the oil seed rape season; I can smell and taste yellow. The stunning fluorescent patchwork is an unctuous smog that m...
2 days ago
Wild up North

Swallow Folly - Swallows returned to my neighbours barn yesterday, only to find all entrances blocked off in preparation for conversion to a house. Mitigation is require...
2 days ago
Wildlife on our Allotment

A Couple of Familiar Bugs -
2 days ago
Mid Cheshire Barn Owls

Owl Rescue - It is certainly not unusual to find Barn Owl boxes occupied by Jackdaws and, as they cram as much material into the available space as they can, often sm...
2 days ago
Another Bird Blog

Plan B - Plan A was to be a coastal walk soon after dawn to seek out more Wheatears and anything else lurking unfound by Spring birders. A bitingly cold north easte...
2 days ago
My Life Outside

Llanrhidian Marsh Sunset - 16/04/2014 - Wednesday evening once again offered clear skies so with an Osprey sighting still a possibility I headed across to Penclawdd. My arrival seemed to chime perf...
2 days ago
Linacre Blogger

"Commic" Terns at Linacre - Since I started recording the birdlife at Linacre Reservoirs began back in 2006 I have only ever had 1 sighting of any tern species, a single *Common Tern*...
2 days ago
Rain Geese and Selkies

Moth trap inauguration - Actinic bulb on first run last week, too cold and no moths Still a bit chilly but nine Hebrew characters (I think?!) last night Delighted to get some moths i...
2 days ago
Tales of the City

Spontaneous landscape interventions - We went for a walk in the New Forest yesterday, and spotted this rather wonderful glove with ivy garland on a footpath sign: Footpath sign, New ForestIt's ...
2 days ago
Kingfisher Diary

Facts and figures - In addition to the live camera feed, the Nature Channel website in Holland site has a clubhouse where volunteers monitor the kingfisher nest ( and other ne...
2 days ago
holdingmoments

Some sun, some patience, and a lot of luck, gives .......... - .................................... *Brambling* *Chaffinch* *Goldfinch* *Great Tit* *Greenfinch* *Siskin* ...
2 days ago
Purbeck Footprints

Sun, Dogs and Easy Walks - Swanage Bay and Durlston Bay are separated by Peveril Point, upon which stands the Coastwatch lookout station. The view from here is always wonderful wheth...
2 days ago
LOOSE AND LEAFY

IF IT'S NOT ONE THING, IT'S ANOTHER - [image: Fallen tree with trunk cut off - with mosses - in wood.] Thorncombe Woods, Dorset. April 13th 2014 Not autumn - but spring! We'll come back to the ...
2 days ago
A Birding Odyssey

More departures than arrivals. 19.4.2014 - The weather promised to provide a good day again, although the SE wind was unlikely to provide the best conditions for seawatching, which soon proved to be...
3 days ago
Jake's Bones

The birds of the pine marten wood (part two) - Last week I began writing about the birds that I have seen near the pine marten wood. There was so much to write that I split the post over two weeks. The...
3 days ago
CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

Show-offs - *Spent some of this morning watching the exhilarating, death-defying aerobatics of courting lapwings, on Chapel fell in Weardale.* *When the males are dis...
3 days ago
shirls gardenwatch

The University of Dundee Botanic Garden - Reflecting the sunshine of this past week, were blooms in the Glasshouses of Dundee Botanics on Thursday. It’s been a glorious week of weather so a Garden...
3 days ago
Jenny McLaren- art, fieldnotes & findings

Larch flowers - Out for a walk in the welcome sunshine we came across a tiny larch growing out of a rock, adorned with miniature cerise flowers and tight bunches of fre...
3 days ago
florafaunauk

Evening Song - The Song Thrush - Song Thrush seeem to use the Tall Pylons closed to the River to allow their song to reverberate around the nearby Nature reserve The Song Thrush *Turdus ph...
3 days ago
Druridge Diary

Hoodie - A quick update from the patch. There have been up to five *yellow wagtails* on the Budge fields, none today, though evenings seem better. I did the WeBS c...
3 days ago
Donegal Wildlife

Extra high pressure - A second consecutive day of blue sky was a bit unexpected: the forecast was cloudy with showers! I think I remember that in the olden days (pre-warming) we...
3 days ago
Views of the Ock

Abbey Fishponds - Tucked away in-between housing estates in the north of Abingdon is a small nature reserve known as the Abbey Fishponds. . . In medieval times it is believed...
4 days ago
Seabed Habitats

Scientists “See” Ocean Floor - Scientists use cameras and sonar near the U.S. Virgin Islands to “see” the seafloor and find out how fish and other sea life use the underwater habitats, w...
4 days ago
Zoo Volunteer

Quest for the wild Canary 9: Raptors and owls - F.tinnunculus canariensis There is a reasonable diverse set of raptors in the islands, both residents and visitors, but there are no endemic species (at le...
4 days ago
BirdPoem

A very Good Friday - *Wheatear *(*Oenanthe oenanthe*), St Mary's Bay, 18/4/14 After a relatively quiet few weeks where bird-related anticipation has well out-flanked reality, ...
4 days ago
I Love Arnside and Silverdale

Nature Notes up to May 2014 - Beef Cattle being attacked by Jackdaw on Dalton Crags *Wednesday 23rd April 2014* (Forecast: 1000hrs - Wind SE 10-16mph 10c, 83% Cloud cover, 18600m visibi...
4 days ago
SophiEco Goes Wild

Nature - Nature makes the world go around; trees shade and shelter us, butterflies make us notice the sunshine, flowers help us express our feelings or love, regret...
4 days ago
Butterfly Islands

Spring in Full Swing - Now that the first Large Red Damselfly has emerged from my garden pond it seems that summer is on the way. Orange Tips,Holly Blues,and whites are now a regu...
4 days ago
Lee Brady's Recording Blog

Hungry Snake Picked The Wrong Dinner - Researchers on Golem Grad Island, Macedonia, stumbled upon a rather intriguing and wholly disgusting find whilst looking for snakes - a dead young viper with...
4 days ago
Zygoma

Friday mystery object #224 - For the last few weeks I’ve been using cat skulls as mystery objects, because they are really hard to tell apart and I was hoping that some useful distingu...
5 days ago
Alan Watson Featherstone's Blog

Life and death in an aspen tree - In a recent blog I wrote about the fallen giants – some of the large Scots pines (Pinus sylvestris) and oaks (Quercus petraea) that were blown down by the ...
5 days ago
Steve Oakes' Wildlife Photography Blog ~ Latest Updates

Wild Bird Photography by Steve Oakes - 18 April 2014, North Wirral Coastal Park. - It's been well over 3 months since I last managed to get out with my camera so I was utterly over-joyed to get a few spare hours this morning with good w...
5 days ago
Wild and Wonderful

Beautiful Birds ~ Eider off the Ayrshire Coast - I love Eider Ducks, and have only seen them in Scotland and Northumbria. You can just about make out the pink tinge on the front of the male This time we...
5 days ago
Birding the day away!

Great Black-Backed Gull ~ 2nd cy ~ Leucistic ~ Dungeness, Kent - 06.04.14 - *A pale Great Black-backed gull in its 2nd Cycle is another regular at Dungeness, Kent ...* *This unusual looking bird is probably leucistic, where the colo...
5 days ago
Herts Nature

Contoh Pidato Bahasa Inggris Terlengkap | Kumpulan Kata Mutiara Bijak Cinta - Contoh Pidato Bahasa Inggris Terlengkap | Kumpulan Kata Mutiara Bijak Cinta: Sebuah artikel kecil tentang Pidato Bahasa Inggris yang sangat lengkap sekal...
5 days ago
Tarka Challenge

Venture Travel Magazine - Here is my interview with Venture Travel Magazine - http://www.venturetravelmag.com/blog/wildlife-challenge
5 days ago
Pegler Birding

Theraputic Thursdays - 10th April, 2014 - *Anyone who's main passion is owls can tell you that it tends to be a relatively lonely occupation. Much of the time the search is fruitless, and it often ...
6 days ago
The Natural Stone

Brambling, Ferry Meadows - One of two males seen at Ferry Meadows this morning. The other was a rather brighter summer individual. Brambling *Fringilla montifringilla* Canon Powersh...
6 days ago
My Nature Notes

A tired common lizard? - I was leading a walk when we encountered a common lizard (Lacerta vivipara) on a discarded car tyre. Despite being very vulnerable and with over a dozen pe...
6 days ago
Considering Birds

Considerando Uccelli - It’s probably best not to habitually make excuses for my absence, but one very good one I can offer for the last, oh, I don’t know how many blog-free weeks...
6 days ago
Landscapism

There is no time like Spring - "There is no time like Spring, when life's alive in everything." Christina Rossetti, *Spring.* This post is nothing more than a visual reminder; a reminde...
6 days ago
Northern Ireland Black-headed Gull Colour-ringing Project

Mediterranean Gull - White E742 - Last week, during a short stop-off at Glynn to check the black-headed gull flock for colour-rings, I noticed four Mediterranean gulls preening and bathing ...
6 days ago
Anglesey Wild Flower Meadow

Mid April - Mid April and the Swallows have arrived spot on the 14th a little earlier than usual they normally arrive around the 17th in time for my birthday .the best...
6 days ago
Biodiversity Gatwick

Small mammals vs. large mammals - Working with animals and teenagers may at first seem a hairy sort of idea, but then again you might be surprised. At the end of a manic March, a group of a...
6 days ago
Garden Bird Year

Food for young - From evening song post.. (C.OOS) I have noticed a few Blackbirds in recent days, apparently carrying food for young. I watched one closely this morning, ...
6 days ago
Matt Gould's Wildlife Photography

Wild Bird Wednesday - Long tailed tit portrait - The long tailed tit is my favorite garden bird, and thanks to he added reach on my new lens i was able to get close enough to take this shot in my back gar...
6 days ago
Gabriel Hemery

Poplar and mistletoe - I escaped to France last week during the hiatus of the launch of The New Sylva - appropriately enough losing myself among the bocage and marais in Normandy.
1 week ago
Wild Nottingham

Jack by the Hedge - I’m focussing on foraging again today. Jack by the Hedge (Alliaria petiolata) is a spring foraging favourite; also known as Garlic Mustard, it is a very c...
1 week ago
Naturanaute

An oasis of wilderness - Green spaces are prized treasures in the brick and concrete jungle of cities. Yet, according to a report commissioned in 2013, London is the greenest city ...
1 week ago
Samanta's Wildlife

Ivy Leaved Toadflax - Since March I have been trying to find a positive ID for a small, purple bilaterally asymmetrical viola-like flower with a yellow centre that grows on wall...
1 week ago
Owls about that then!

Super Sunday! - On Sunday morning Col Green and I had a couple of spare hours so we used the time wisely and went and checked some more owl boxes. Due to the time constrai...
1 week ago
LENS: Long Eaton Natural History Society

LENS Summer Walks Woodside - Apr 14 Woodside Farm Nature Reserve, Shipley. Part of this new reserve is run as a farm with cows and sheep. See it at lambing time. Can be very wet, so pl...
1 week ago
Islay Natural History Trust

Serenity at Killinallan - The Sanderling was unfazed by our presence; the skies were serene; the Emperor Moth had got on with its emerging; the Marsh Fritillary Caterpillars were na...
1 week ago
leavesnbloom

The April Garden - [image: a ladybird about to fly off my hand] It's April and the garden finally is bursting into life. As each week goes by less and less soil is visible ...
1 week ago
Barcode Ecology

Wear Sunscreen - An interesting week full of different things – events, exploration and of course some moths. With a moth trap on loan from a friend, and permission to set ...
1 week ago
Chasing Tails - A wildlife photographer's blog

Hare Workshop Images 2014 - A few images that have rolled off the back of the hare lorry recently...
1 week ago
Jason Ridge Photography

Opticron Countryman BGA HD – Review - Another day and another pair of binoculars to put to the test, this time the Opticron Countryman BGA HD 8×32. My reviews may not be as...
1 week ago
Paul's Back Garden Safari

Parasitic wasp - Ichneumon stramentor - On Friday night as I was clearing the kitchen getting ready to sit down and watch a film with the family I came across this fantastic ichneumon wasp. It se...
1 week ago
Austin Thomas Photography - Blog

The Little Owls are back and they have started nesting already… - I did my first photo session of 2014 with the Little Owls this weekend. I had spotted a Little Owl a few weeks ago when I was out scanning the fields with ...
1 week ago
Wild Reviews

“The Eagle’s Way” – Book Review - Last season I read “The Last Wolf” by Jim Crumley and spent a little time afterwards reviewing it. His most recent publication came out this year and is ve...
1 week ago
Wildlife Photographic Journals

Buzzin Round the Zoo - Now and again I like to make a visit to my local zoo at Chester. Is is a very good zoo and they a operate a large number of important conservation and edu...
1 week ago
Wild Sight

You Must Go Back - If a place is worth visiting, it’s worth visiting at least twice. There is a school of thought that says you can never go back. I think that they are bui...
1 week ago
Hedgeland Tales

Pied-billed Grebe at Rutland Water - I received a phone call on Wednesday afternoon from my friend Chris Orders to inform me that a pretty rare bird had been reported from Rutland Water, a 3...
1 week ago
Wildlife news from Wild Lochaber

Orca Fin - Finishing our pre-season checks here at Glenloy Lodge, but have already taken a couple of guests out for early morning tours to see blackcock and otter. On...
1 week ago
Victoria Hillman Nature Photography Blog

Spring is here - Hello everyone, Spring must be here, saw my first swallow today! Hope everyone has been enjoying the lovely weather we've been having here in Somerset over...
1 week ago
The Wold Ranger

A few recent photos - Here are a few more spring photos taken during the last couple of days as the weather has remained clement and warm enough for spring to continue its stead...
1 week ago
A life at the shoreline

Female Siskin - A surprise visitor to my doorstep , a lovely female Siskin
1 week ago
UK Wildlife

Black winged stilt at RSPB Bowers Marsh - I got a Text today from the wonderful Howard Vaughan informing me that there was a pair of Black Winged Stilts at RSPB Bowers Marsh. They are the first see...
1 week ago
Oscar Dewhurst Wildlife Photography

Thanks to - Several organisations have helped me with my trip to Peru, through monetary or equipment support, so I'd just like to thank them. Firstly, I am very gratef...
1 week ago
Hagbourne Wildlife

More Spring - Warm weather – and Spring – are holding out, at least for the moment. The Scarlet Tiger caterpillars are growing, garden birds are preening their breeding ...
1 week ago
Esticadinho Nature

Moths provide highlight of early April - Warm conditions during the Spring always provide great conditions for early season insects at Tophill Low NR, East Yorkshire – and the opportunity to photo...
1 week ago
George's wonderful wildlife report

How not to enhance a reputation - Hello and welcome once more to my latest blog it has been a very busy period recently with coursework deadlines all being grouped into one tight bundle, st...
1 week ago
Nature Poetry, Sketches, And the rest.

More Natural Sculptures Found today - I have now included two more "natural sculptures" which I have found and I hope you enjoy:"Fused The Pregnant Ewe" found in Lancelot Clark Storth *(Please c...
1 week ago
Wildlife Snapshots

Not just birds ....... - Time with the camera has been a bit restricted and the one opportunity I did get didn't lead to any birds coming to pose. For the first time though anothe...
1 week ago
Harbour Master

WORN MEADOW ?? - Strange looking pipit along recuvler sea front,when i first saw it i was thinking worn whinchat than i had a good look pipit but not a meadow,as it sounded...
1 week ago
East Yorkshire Wildlife

Final Post - Thankyou to everyone that has followed this Blog since its inception. I’ve taken the decision to amalgamate this Blog with my East Riding Dragonflies Websi...
2 weeks ago
The Liverbirder

Gosforth Park Fudge - £3.50 and well worth it! - Some Lifers are ticked 'just because'; the Yellow-rumped Warbler, for example. Well, it would have been rude not to! Never heard of one before, will never ...
2 weeks ago
What's Wild in Cornwall

Hawthorn: ‘tree-following’ - Go to the Loose and Leafy blog and you’ll find a great initiative. People from different parts of the UK, the USA, Europe and elsewhere have each chosen a ...
2 weeks ago
Wessex Wanderings

Cholsey to Goring via the downs - It has been over four months since I last did a walk lasting a whole day. So with the forecast for the only full fine day in the week I decided to make u...
2 weeks ago
Bugman Jones

I don’t work in a museum but…. - I don’t work in a museum, but I’ve been nominated (i.e. challenged) to write a blog for the Twitter museumweek hashtag. I nearly didn’t get nominated, yo...
2 weeks ago
Holywell Birding

Progression? - Progress I’m told, progression to what, the end? The Green Belt is a brilliant idea, its unfortunate that it doesn’t live up to its name, it should be cal...
2 weeks ago
Wildlife Matters

Working With The Dorset Wildlife Trust - Ciara Askin, 17. Sparsholt College Student. ___________________________________ Starting March 17th I spent three weeks on a work placement with the Dorset...
2 weeks ago
Birding with Flowers

Tepid off the Press - This Otter photo taken at Tophill Low from 18th February, has just made it into today's *Hull Daily Mail* The full story may be read here:
2 weeks ago
National Trust Fell Rangers

Path and stream crossing at Aira Force - We've recently been working again at Aira Force, where amongst a lot of exciting new developments a new bridge has been put in near High Force to create a ...
2 weeks ago
A dribble of knowledge

Nietoperek Revisited - You might remember last year Denise wrote an article on this blog about the Nietoperek bat reserve in Poland, which is one of the largest bat hibernation s...
2 weeks ago
Julie's Blog

2014 Dubai Holiday - Post 3 - 25/3/14 - Today, we drove to Al Ain and stayed at the Mercure Hotel up Jebel Hafet. Before going to the hotel we stop and visit the Green Mubazzarah. *Green Mubazzar...
2 weeks ago
European Trees

Measuring Landscape - “There’s something about the way that fields and churches and orchards and houses and dry-stone walls have been artfully arranged over the centuries that n...
2 weeks ago
A.W.Birder: Always on the lookout for fine birds...

A Busy Day at North Duffield - North Duffield was the place to be today it seems, in the local area anyway. However, I was a good couple of miles away on a dog walk when it got going... ...
2 weeks ago
Woodlouse House

Frontal Attack - Andy went off to photograph a few rare birds so I dug up the front lawn. BEFORE I didn't need to plan what I wanted ... I just wanted flowers. That me...
2 weeks ago
natureoncam

Austwick and the Norber Erratics! - Spent a few days in the Yorkshire Dales a week or so back staying on a very good 5 pitch campsite near Austwick, it was called Orcaber Farm and is highly rec...
2 weeks ago
Jane Smith Wildlife Art

Gannets fishing - Gannets fishing, screenprint, ed. of 4 The Easter holidays are here, and in the next few weeks everyone will be putting their boats back in the water after ...
2 weeks ago
Wader World

Vange Marsh & Vange Wick March Review. - *Vange Marsh & Vange Wick March 2014. * *Monthly review and I am not doing a year list.* *Species Recored so far:* *Mute Swan, Canada Goose, Greylag Goo...
2 weeks ago
Duckwoman's Diary

Spring migration and sausages! - Hello birdwatchers March has been an exciting month so far with even a little time to learn a new skill. More of that later. Over the last month, my indoo...
2 weeks ago
Ian Butler Photography

Ilford FP4 medium format 120 film for sale - Hi all, I have 8 rolls of Ilford FP4 PLUS ISO125 120 roll film for sale on gumtree if anyone is interested. The link is here: http://www.gumtree.com/p/fo...
2 weeks ago
Garden 65

Sewing In The Sunshine - Did a bit of sewing in that brief afternoon of sunshine we had the other day, and very pleasant it was too. Sat next to the horse chestnut that's in a po...
2 weeks ago
Birders in Boxers

Spring's arrived........... - Last Saturday saw Teresa and myself entertaining friends Neil and Gail up at the caravan with the lads enjoying a pleasant hike up to the top of Sugar Loaf...
3 weeks ago
Hares on the Hill

Finally the UN rules that Japanese Whaling is not Scientific - A friend has just sent me this link to a BBC News’ report. I’ve copied the salient points here and included the link (there are related links on the BBC pa...
3 weeks ago
DGPix Wildlife and Nature Photography

Badger & Fox Adventures - Since the Spring of 2013, I've been videoing and recording badgers on my land. Last year we counted 2 badgers regularly visiting feeding sites, with a sho...
3 weeks ago
Landscapes and Wildflower Habitats

Wordsworth's Daffodils - The English Lake District is famous for its mountains, lakes and Daffodils. There are many varieties of Daffodils and we have more than our fair share pla...
3 weeks ago
Gillian Dinsmore’s Bird Ringing Blog

Roaming Redpolls - I’ve been waiting all Winter for the return of our Redpoll flock in Stranraer. It’s been a very quiet Winter for them here with few Siskin and Goldfin...
3 weeks ago
Wild About...

Box End Park WeBS: 16/03/2014 - A fairly quiet WeBS count at Box End Park this month. One of the pairs of Mute Swans looked like they were starting a nest on the spit and a pair of Canada...
3 weeks ago
Flying high!

March is flying by! - Almost the end of March and I have yet to write a post in this month. I am about to remedy that! At the start of the month...well the 7th-10th...a weekend...
3 weeks ago
Entomacrographic

A flock of Dodos - On Saturday I attended another insect identification course, this time on Solitary Bees and Wasps. These informative courses are run the Hampshire Arts and...
3 weeks ago
from the robin's nest...

Early flowering plants - I decided to visit Withdean Woods today as I needed to walk my dog and wanted to check out what early woodland flowers I could find popping up. Firstly, ...
3 weeks ago
Wunderkammer

11 Questions to a Museum Blogger - It’s been a great digital couple of weeks for museums: last week we had #MuseumBlogs where the variety and quality of museum bloggers was celebrated and we...
4 weeks ago
Parus

I've no title for this one. - Sunday afternoon came around and I found myself with some unexpected free time, a car and zero inclination to break out the tile grout. In an attempt to ge...
4 weeks ago
Wildlife Conservation: Heart of the Levels Wildlife Group

CPRE campaign - Extract from CPRE web site; http://www.cpre.org.uk The Government’s planning reforms are unnecessarily damaging the countryside and undermining local demo...
4 weeks ago
Bishopthorpe Nature

Responses to the death of Fred Phelps - Recently, Fred Phelps, the founder of a particularly nasty form of Christian cult, known for picketing the funerals of gay people , died. In the last cou...
4 weeks ago
Pete Cooper Wildlife

Pine martens to the rescue? How martens could be tackling the Eastern grey squirrel - Pine martens to the rescue? How martens could be tackling the Eastern grey squirrel My first piece for the new Biosphere online nature & conservation journal.
4 weeks ago
From the muddy banks of the Dee....

Chiff-chuffed... - This post is about a Chiffchaff. Eventually... “On the spot!” I yell. Mike rolls the ball out of the D to my feet. I dink it wide to Si who starts a mazy...
4 weeks ago
GJGPhotography

Reflection Pool - Since my last post, I’ve spent more than a few hours at the hide seeing what’s about and trying to get a few images of the birds that are visiting regularl...
4 weeks 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...
4 weeks ago
indie birder

Red-flanked Bluetail - Marshfield, Gloucestershire 9th March 2014 - What a stunner! A really lovely bird, especially so in good light as on Sunday 9th March. *Red-flanked Bluetail, Marshfield, Gloucestershire - Sunday 9th M...
4 weeks ago
Norfolk Nature Photo Blog

Red Kite Soaring - One of my favourite birds is the beautiful and graceful native red kite. I used to love watching one above my garden back in Oxfordshire but I now see them...
4 weeks ago
Cath Hodsman British Wildlife Artist

Cotswold Life pay homage to Cath’s intricate insect art in their April edition…. - Blog Wildlife Art Company Cath is will known for her intricate and accurate artistic studies of insects. She pays homage to their beauty, strength and dive...
4 weeks ago
The Naturephile

Tyto alba - A few posts ago in ‘The Owl and the Woodpecker‘ I mentioned that a pair of robins may have started getting fruity in my garden as early as the begining of ...
5 weeks ago
Adam Winson, Arboriculturist

Dyngus Day and the Willow Tree - *Salix caprea*, aka Sallow, Goat or Pussy Willow are the commonest and most widespread willows in Britain. They are the tree most likely to be encountere...
5 weeks ago
naturestimeline

January and February datasets - As promised, how is the phenology looking against a backdrop of a very wet but reasonably mild Winter. One notable thing for me were the number of Thunder ...
5 weeks ago
Why watch wildlife?

Want to hear me talk about Wildlife? - For anyone that is interested, I’ll be doing a brief presentation on ‘Why watch wildlife?’ as part of Bettakultcha York on Tuesday March 18th. You can find...
5 weeks ago
Ron's Wildlife Photography blog

Golden Eagle, Kuusamo, North East Finland. - I have been out on a trip to north east Finland to phot [...]
5 weeks ago
Ecologica

Great tits hunt for Pipistrelle bats - When under strong ecological pressure, or when a good opportunity arises, animals have often shown themselves to be surprisingly innovative in how they ada...
5 weeks ago
Keepers Cottage Wildlife Garden Diary

Torrs Warren, after the storms–4th January 2014 - A walk at Torrs warren after the storms and tidal surge. Lots of trees down, we had to negotiate over 30 across the main track alone! Lots of mud and pudd...
5 weeks 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...
1 month ago
BTO Cymru

BBS Training in Wales Hyfforddiant BBS yng Nghymru - BTO Cymru has for the past two years been working hard to increase the number of BBS squares covered across Wales. Courses backed by one to one mentoring ...
1 month ago
Bogbumper

Blossom! -
1 month ago
Birds and a brew...

Quick Update... - Just returned to Yorkshire after spending a couple of months helping out on the Isles of Scilly Seabird Recovery Project. The project aims to remove invas...
1 month ago
Once Upon

The couple next door.... - Don't know if I've mentioned it.......but Jack and Vera live across the road from me. Jack and Vera are very much a couple. A couple of Jackdaws. They live ...
1 month ago
Red on Wight

- A drey is a nest built by the red squirrel in the forks of branches,situated close to the main trunk.It is made up of twigs and leaves and the hollow insid...
1 month ago
Birdie Num Num

Happy Sundays - *03/02/2014 - Wentworth, Woodnook* Been a while hasn't it? Well there you go. It's been a quiet Winter for us, ringing wise, though to be fair it hasn't ...
1 month ago
Wisdom of a Wazzock

Thrid se’nnight o’ Solmonað - Sorry clicked wrong button
1 month ago
In the Countryside

A winter store - In moving the remains of an old fence panel I inadvertently stumbled across a great cache of hazel nuts, carefully stored away by one of the wood mice wit...
1 month ago
Thérèse Goes Birding

23rd February 2014 - Horsey Mere, Winterton and Waveney Forest - The Sunday of the Norfolk weekend was spent more in the Broads area, slowly working the way home. An early start (much to the dismay of the B&B owner) was...
1 month ago
Dawn Monrose Nature Photography

A few birds - A quick round up of this weeks photography, I’ve been trying out a new lens combination and I’m thoroughly impressed. What do you think? All of these were ...
2 months ago
Beetle Boy's BioBlog

A Strange, Fluffy Gall - Recently I have published a post on galls, and one of the species that I briefly mentioned was the Moss Gall, formed by the Gall Wasps known by the scienti...
2 months ago
Earthfast Images

Shieldbug Nymph - [image: Shieldbug Nymph by Roger B.] Shieldbug Nymph, a photo by Roger Butterfield on Flickr.
2 months ago
Life's Grandeur

Boxing day - After 11 successful years out of 11, we have had to retire our trusty blue tit nest box.
2 months ago
Murf's Wildlife

American Wigeon - Passing though Tullaghans in County Leitrim today just south of Bundoran in Donegal, I stopped on the main road to check the flooded fields for the America...
2 months 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...
2 months ago
The Wild West!

Red Fox - Yesterday I decided to leave the Trailcam at a new sett. Entering the woodland I came across several tufts of Red Fox fur caught on the lowest strand of th...
2 months ago
Beyond the Riverbank

Poland II : Wieliczka Salt Mines & Krakow Jewish Quarters - After last weeks rather sinister and foreboding post, this one will hopefully have a slightly happier feel to it as I put up the last few photos from the ...
2 months ago
Wild Valleys

Brown Field Site - One of the best brown field sites found locally to me has to be the area in between Aberbargoed, Bedwellty and Markham, its apparently owned by the Environ...
2 months ago
The Rambling Ecologist

Mysterious silence - Morning all, Just thought I’d write a very quick post to apologise for the massive lack of posts going up here for the past few months. I’m currently study...
2 months ago
Cranfield's Wildlife Blog

2014 – a new project for this year - I will be at the Herpetofauna Workers’ Meeting at the end of the month. An excellent meeting which sold out within 13 days. My company is sponsoring the ev...
2 months ago
Myky Speaks

Get Out Of The Armchair - We’re always being told that wildlife thrives anywhere- towns and cities, the countryside, gardens, nature reserves etc. And while it’s true, we only ever ...
3 months 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 ...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
Ron Bury's Wildlife

Surveys show need to conserve western Scotland’s healthy seas - Volunteers onboard Silurian Copyright G.Leaper *Research surveys conducted by the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust (HWDT) during 2013 have identified a rem...
3 months ago
The Bristol Wildlife Blog

A Siberian Chiffchaff on a Bristol dung-heap - Common Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) is a leaf-warbler familiar to birdwatchers in Britain, as a common summer visitor, and in much of the country as...
3 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
The Heartwood Blog

Stairs and Fencing in Cleft Sweet Chestnut - Intro This project involved working jointly with another company Quay Carpentry www.quaycarpentry.co.uk. The brief for their customer was to craft compon...
3 months ago
UKbirdingtimeline | an insight into the United Kingdom's birding season

Bird Science as a career - It is about time this blog received some input, the birding element is actually a huge part of my current career activities. In fact, I’ve been a birder an...
3 months ago
Compare the Marsh Tit

Normal service resumed - This morning three Egyptian geese flew clangourously over my house. Twice. This seems as good a reason as any for writing a blog. Now, where were we?
3 months ago
Nature Writing Notes

Tokyo Park Life - Bridge to West Beach, Kasai Rinkai Park When I returned to Tokyo in autumn for another temporary work contract, I promised myself that I'd blog less a...
3 months ago
Joe Wynn Photography

2013- The Year In As Many Characters or Fewer - Hello internet! Remember me? No me neither. Still, i've had a fairly mental last few months so it's perhaps unsurprising how little time i've had for updat...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
Downland Views

Last Post (for a while) - I have legitimately been able to forget the housework and go off exploring the countryside as the doctor said walking would strengthen my knee and help wit...
4 months ago
The Gray Gallery / Nature through the lens

Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) - With poor light this morning and a heavy mist shrouding the landscape, this Grey Squirrel obliged by posing perfectly. Good job, too, because the long and he...
4 months ago
Rock N' Roll Birder

Scottish Highlands - Saturday 7th to 14th September 2013 - Here are a few pictures from my week in the Scottish Highlands which included trips to Skye, the Flow Country, Speyside, The Black Isle, Gairloch & the sur...
4 months 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...
4 months ago
the katsura tree | the world outside your window

I’m going to have to go back up there - But more on that story later. Something, (possibly a Jackdaw), has kicked the camera out of the box. My ingenious home-brew plant-pot inspired camera mount...
5 months ago
Ian McCall

Autumn beach - Autumn colours on the beach this afternoon. Walked to where the kids gather and light fires. It’s a nice south facing spot. And there are great views over ...
5 months ago
Alcester Nature Photography

Backlit Teasels - Quick picture of some backlit Teasels, I quite liked the lens flare it added some interest to the picture (IMHO). A Goldfinch feeding on them would have ...
5 months ago
Between the Weave

Updates from the garden - This is my first post since July as I have been busy writing books (for example, Sadie and the Lost Treasure). So, July. Well that was a hot month. But hey...
6 months 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...
6 months ago
Ryan Clark Nature Photography

A quick update - Hello everyone, Just a quick update from me. As some of you will know I have been rather busy this summer with my fieldwork for my dissertation. Unfortun...
7 months 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. ...
7 months ago
Beneath the Stream

Blog moving to new site - Dear loyal followers, I'm no longer going to update this blog but instead everything has moved to my website at www.colin-williams.com. Just click on the ...
7 months ago
WillowWhispering

Finca Son Jorbo, Mallorca – (A birders’ delight) - This summer we returned to the beautiful island of Mallorcafor our annual holiday. We stayed at a traditional 17th century farmhouse in a rural location on...
7 months 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...
7 months ago
Hedge Britannia

At the Cutting Edge – hedge poetry - Here’s another charming poem from Nizgal (whose Sheep from Oats I put on the blog last year) – he has belatedly got in touch, very nice to hear from him. A...
8 months ago
Ann Kelley - On The Edge

POND - ALDERFLY?
8 months ago
The Natural World of Wildlife

The Galapagos Finches Evolution in Action - *Evolution is a fantastic process, and is basically the change of inherited traits of a certain population from generation to generation. Evo...
8 months ago
Irish Wildlife Photography

Wren -
9 months ago
Inspired by Ecology

To Twitch or not to twitch – that IS a question! - Dusky Thrush, Margate Cemetery, May 2013Not long ago, a rare bird from the far east, a Dusky Thrush turned up in East Kent. This was the first time this sp...
9 months ago
Springhill Lane Wildlife

bats - I knew there were bats in the area because we have had pipistrelles in the house before and local dog walkers see them regularly in the evening, so I set o...
10 months ago
Birding Blog

Quality not Quantity - First time out for a while. Went to a survey site this morning. Didn't have very much there but we did have brilliant views of a Green Woodpecker. We also ...
10 months ago
Habitat Aid's Blog

The Tortoise and the Hare - Talk about tortoise and hare. We trashed the soil so badly around our new build when sloshing around in last year’s mud that it’s having to undergo compr...
10 months ago
Chosen Path's Monthly Nature News

05. Chosen Paths - Nature News - May, 2013 - The critical State of Nature Report; a CO2 milestone surpassed; centuries-old plants brought back to life, and the first crane egg laid for 400 years. Ma...
10 months 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...
10 months 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 ...
11 months ago
flockmentality | Feral goose chasing

Drama! More photos - Most birds get pretty feisty in the breeding season. It could be all that testosterone knocking about, and sometimes the females are as bad as the males. S...
11 months ago
Love our Lakes and Parks

The sun is out – go find nature! - At last, after a very wet and windy few days, the sun is back and it looks like spring again. So get out there and enjoy the outdoors. Take some time to g...
11 months 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 ...
11 months ago
Paul Chanin | Mainly Mammals

10. How to scare an otter - I recently spent week at an otter conference in southern Ireland. About 50 people from 13 European countries gathered at Kinsale to talk about otter ecolog...
11 months ago
Marilyn's Wildlife Diary

SWT Hazelwood Marshes - On New Years Day 2012 we walked The Sailers Path from Snape towards Aldeborough, and back. We saw the sign for the marshes but did not have time to go any...
1 year ago
Druridge Bay ... Watching Wildlife

Brrrrrrr! - A quiet day compared to yesterday. Sedge and Willow warblers still singing. Whitethroat put in a brief appearance but the wind chill was noticeable and the...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Wild Watching

- On love When I think of love, I think of the depth of the earth and my own smallness. I think of how the earth will eat me, eventually, and how my fles...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Geltsdale Wildlife Warrior

My Cumberland News Article... - I was asked to be interviewed for an article in the Cumberland News after doing one regarding a Cumbrian Aurora display last spring. The focus was on my e...
1 year 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
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Tory Island Bird Blog

7th March; Chris Ingram - I recieved an e mail from Chris Ingram who was on Tory yesterday. He reported the following; Went to Tory yesterday, here is the list: Red-throated Diver ...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Seeds for Rewilding

Little Island, Hundreds of Beetles - (This post relates to an ongoing project in Canterbury, the wider context of which you can read about here.) I have just finished curating my first beetle ...
1 year ago
The Urban Countryman

Winter Woodland Wonderland - The forecast snow duly arrived, gradually [...]
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 cafés are dark and lifeless...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
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