UK and Ireland Natural History Bloggers: July 2012

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The Early Birder

Two Chats. - For this weeks edition of Wild Bird Wednesday I'm featuring two different 'Chats'. Both are Passeriformes of the Turdidae (Thrush) family. First is the [Eu...
13 minutes ago
Harbour Master

UNLOVED AND UNMANAGED - These are a few shots of what was one the best reserves in kent,let alone in the county,you been wondering why no reports have been coming out off are belo...
1 hour ago
Inspired by Ecology

Tenerife: Visit to Las Canadas National Park - One of the most dramatic and rewarding experiences in Tenerife is a visit to Las Canadas National Park. This wonderful area is designated as a World Herita...
2 hours ago
Pegler Birding

Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) - on 10th July, 2014 - *Other than with Little Owls, I don't think that I've ever done a post on this blog which features only one species.* *Twenty years ago, Little Egrets (Egr...
3 hours ago
CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

Dead-nettles - *Some members of the dead-nettle family (Lamiaceae):* *White dead-nettle Lamium album, a favourite plant of bumblebees* ...
3 hours ago
Tricia's Tales

Woolbeding... a return visit.. - We got back from Munich very late at night and didn't want to brave the M25 on a Friday. It was dry when we got back but overnight.... major thunder storm...
3 hours ago
Isle of Wight Dragons

One A Day. - The Emperor Dragonfly seems to be ovipositing almost daily at my garden pond.The blue form female pictured below was seen yesterday and yet another on the ...
3 hours ago
Another Bird Blog

There’s A Reason - Bird watchers are never entirely happy with their lot. If they don’t see birds there are several likely explanations as to why that should be. It’s mostly ...
3 hours ago
Views from an urban lake

Photo of the Week #6 - Sphaerophoria Sp. - Great Holm, Milton Keynes This weeks photo of the week choice was quite limited due to my complete lack of getting out taking photos,...
6 hours ago
Matt Cole Wildlife Photography

Orange Tip Butterflies - Despite Orange Tip butterflies being quite common I've always found it surprisingly difficult to photograph them. They don't seem to be particularly plenti...
6 hours ago
Random Jottings

Great! - A few 'great' things have caught my eye recently. Firstly and by far the most satisfying to see, was the family of Great Crested Grebes which have made th...
7 hours ago
An English Wood

Ingredient in the Duke of Portland’s powder - Probably Common Centaury, Centauri […]
8 hours ago
Birding For Pleasure

WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY - Peregrine with chicks on Copeland Island (2) - I was out early on Saturday morning on Copeland Island and was going to go down to the ‘loo with a view’ to the left of the cliff, however I stood looking...
12 hours ago
Midmarsh Jottings

Tuesday Twister - Guess What - [image: gold star] All seems to be going well with this series of puzzle photos so far. Congratulations and virtual gold stars go to Adrian, Roy, TexWisGir...
13 hours ago
Bill's Birding

Skokholm-scapes - I feel privileged to be able to call this beautiful, unassuming island my home for the next few months...
16 hours ago
LOOSE AND LEAFY

THE WILD PLANTS OF SOUTHAMPTON HIGH STREET - At the top of a pedestrian subway in Southampton (but not in the High Street). This little garden has a lawn and leaves and flowers. If I have a missio...
22 hours ago
Rambles with a Camera

My grandson Arthur........................ enjoying a toasted sandwich with his Dad - My son Craig having a snack in the garden with my little grandson Arthur... I love his little wellies. He really is a happy little chap... I love him to b...
22 hours ago
Lancashire and Lakeland Outback Adventure Wildlife Safaris

Slow start then Boom! - *The Safari only* managed a short and late early look at Patch 2, nothing much doing on the dropping tide but a couple of *Common Terns* followed by a coup...
23 hours ago
Wisdom of a Wazzock

Special snake edition July 21 - Thought this was worth a special Saw a snake swimming in the canal very near Worksop. I’ve seen one before up on the top pound: here and Ian’s seen & photo...
1 day ago
NI Birds

Bird News Monday 21st July. - The Cattle Egret was still in fields (along with cows) behind Hillsborough Lake.(Garry Armstrong) 3 Reed Warbler were in front of Kinnego Hide, Oxford Is...
1 day ago
Islay Natural History Trust

Kilnaughton flora and hoverflies - How come I've never really explored Kilnaughton dunes before? I was overwhelmed by how beautiful they are and found the most gorgeous display of Meadow Cra...
1 day ago
I Love Arnside and Silverdale

Epipactis Hybrids 4 and Other local stuff - Basal leaf structure in E. Schmalhauseneii showing the purple staining. *(please click over the photo to enlarge)* I know its coming to the end of the very...
1 day ago
Rain Geese and Selkies

Bonxie pellets - Bonxie pellet To the beautiful island of Fetlar, on a mission to collect bonxie (great skua) pellets, the small regurgitated parcels of bones, fur, feather...
1 day ago
The Early Birder

Tufted Duck - Redesmere - A lazy Sunday afternoon, and I wasn't feeling too well. I thought I'd try and cheer myself up and go for a stroll with the camera. I headed to Redesmere, j...
1 day ago
Notes of Nature

A short walk around Brownsea Island - Brownsea Island is one of our favourite places. We enjoy the feeling of isolation, the chance to see red squirrels, and the amount of habitats available in...
1 day ago
Killy Birder

Balmy Druridge Bay Evening - 20th June. When Lee called to ask about a visit to Cresswell and Druridge Pools this evening I didn’t take much persuasion. A call to Sam and all was a...
1 day ago
Jake's Bones

Five years of blogging ! - It is now EXACTLY five years ago today when I wrote my very first blog post, which was about the broken swan skull I found in my local wood. I never, ever ...
1 day ago
Wilden Marsh

Look what we’ve found behind this scrub! - Sunrise: 05.26 Sunset: 09.27 8 days, over the past 8 months, have been spent clearing willow and birch scrub along the east bank of the North Pond chain...
1 day ago
My Nature Notes

Common Twayblade: lost in the wilderness | Nature Notes - Common Twayblade: lost in the wilderness | Nature Notes [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
1 day ago
Cholsey Wildlife

Sunday 20th - Sunny, 26º, light SW. Still warm & muggy. ♂*Redstart* still present on Lollingdon Hill today (per AD). Both ♂ & ♀ *Sparrowhawk* seen overhead from the gar...
1 day ago
Druridge Diary

Waders - If I was a migrant wader, I would like the look of the Budge fields at the moment, the vegetation is a bit high, but they'll do. They were certainly popula...
1 day ago
NI Bird Pics

Tony Donaldson - Grey Wagtail -
1 day ago
Wildlife Photographic Journals

Romania and the Last Frontier - Day 6 p.m: Bearded Tits by Buggy - After a very good lunch which I cannot recall but know it wasn't fish, I had a brief rest before setting out on the afternoon session. Rene, Paul and Kevin...
1 day ago
Birding the day away!

Great Northern Diver ~ Iceland - 30.06.14 - *This species was my most wanted target for the trip to photograph, they are just stunning birds ...* *Unlike their smaller cousins we only found these on h...
2 days ago
Brian's Birding Blog

Local little Owls doing well again - Dad had seen the local Owls in the week so an early morning visit was on the cards and today was the day. I arrived at the Roding Valley fields around 6am ...
2 days ago
Ecologica

Cooperative sperm, killer sperm and the competition for reproductive success - In the closing paragraph of on the origin of species Darwin famously said that nature was a war in which individuals struggle against each other and the en...
2 days ago
Paul's Back Garden Safari

Buff Arches - The light trap popped up with a real cracker this weekend when I uncovered a Buff Arches (Habrosyne pyritoides) toward the bottom. The colours and markings...
2 days ago
The Barley Bird-er

The First Common Cuckoo ever ringed at Titchfield Haven - July 2014 - The title pretty much gives away what the highlight of our first bird ringing session of the autumn at the Haven was today, and so I'll start this blog wit...
2 days ago
Thorne & Hatfield Moors Conservation News

DMBC What Do They Know about the Danvm Drainage Commissioners? - Readers may recall Forum involvement with a Mining Subsidence Remediation Scheme around Fishlake, a delightful rural hamlet amidst a once much more substan...
2 days ago
Views of the Ock

Views of the Buddleia - Buddleias are popular plants - they don't require any maintenance and quickly fill a gap in the garden with impressive and attractive flowers. They are also...
2 days ago
Keith Balmer on six legs...

Palomena prasina? - On an oak leaf near Wilstead I spotted this clutch of eggs on 14th July. Bernard and Sheila suspect they may be *Palomena prasina* the Green Shieldbug. O...
2 days ago
The Lyons Den

I walked five miles for a stick?! - This is *Babington's Leek,* a form of the nationally scarce Wild Leek that grows on the sea front at Brighton by the Volks Railway. Amazingly, having live...
2 days ago
Steve Ashton Wildlife Photography

Oare Marsh in the heat (18/07/14) - I visited the reserve at Oare on Friday afternoon, (18th) with the tide reaching its height during my stay which was more luck than judgement as I had negl...
2 days ago
UK Wildlife

Blue tailed damselfly - A few shots of some blue tailed damselflies
2 days 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 ...
2 days ago
My Life Outside

Royal International Air Tattoo - Part 1 - Anyone in the vicinity of RAF Fairford last Sunday can't have failed to notice the abnormally large volume of fighter aircraft overhead, and we were slap ban...
3 days ago
Doorstep Birding

Purple Hairstreak Time - With Everything being a bit earlier this year I've been on the lookout for Purple Hairstreaks on the patch recently. Starting with the trees on which I hav...
3 days ago
Tales of the City

Vulpes vulpes (redux) - Dark deeds call for dark times, and there was no better time than last night, as a storm gathered, to go and chop the head off a dead fox. No, I haven't be...
3 days ago
holdingmoments

It's been a while - Well, I've been back in Wales for a couple of weeks. To begin with we had no internet connection for a while; it's back on now, but now my car is playing...
3 days ago
The Liverbirder

(No so) Common Scoter - So this morning I rolls up at Wessie to see the Guvnor's car already there. It was very early for him; had he left it there the night before or had he wet ...
3 days ago
Northern Ireland Black-headed Gull Colour-ringing Project

Having problems telling your Med or Little Gull from the Black-heads? - Well, perhaps this will help. The fabulous folk at the BTO regularly produce ID videos to help separate similar or difficult species. Their latest video fo...
3 days ago
Hampshire Dragonflies

All Quiet On The Home Front - Friday 18th July Not entirely, and there were some (unexpected) pockets of high activity, but some of the ponds I visited deserved a lot more. I had arrang...
3 days ago
Valley Naturalist

Box of bees - In a roadside pull in just outside Blaenavon there's a regular mix of garden through out plants, but thrown in for good measure was a cardboard box cont...
3 days ago
florafaunauk

A Ground Bug - Scolopostethus thomsoni - Scolopostethus thomsoni [image: Scolopostethus thomsoni 31262] [image: Scolopostethus thomsoni 31260] *Family*: Lygaeidae *Adults *- All year *Length *...
3 days ago
Considering Birds

Planet Of The Ants - As I crossed campus yesterday in the heat of the afternoon, I felt a gentle tickling sensation on my forearm. A winged ant, crawling and questing as ants d...
3 days ago
Pam's Place

Batley - On a recommendation from a friend we took a walk around an area of Batley I had no clue was there. We were on the look out for a Peregrine that he'd spotte...
3 days ago
Bugman Jones

This bee broke my Dad’s arm - On 30 March 1980 my father picked me up from my student flat in Brighton and we headed off to the old sand pit in Rewell Wood near Arundel West Sussex. It ...
4 days ago
Esticadinho Nature

Odonata diverse as Tophill moth list increases - This Southern Hawker Aeshna cyanea at Tophill Low NR, East Yorkshire on July 12th will be one of many seen on the wing at the site this summer. Having sta...
4 days ago
Zygoma

Friday mystery object #230 answer - Last Friday I gave you this skull to identify: It was obvious to everyone who had a go at answering that it was the skull of a marine turtle of some sort, ...
4 days ago
The Monday Pod

A probable improbability of puffins - This blog post is long overdue. I have become a bit complacent recently – both by being busy on shoots, enjoying some down time back at home as well as a g...
4 days ago
Wild Sight

Woodpigeon - There is an old saying that goes something along the lines of, “There are old motorcyclists and there are bold motorcyclists, but there are no old, bold mo...
4 days ago
FABirding

Marsh Harrier. - From the recent archives, a couple of shots of a female *[Western]* *Marsh Harrier* *(Circus aeruginosus)* as she drifted high above a Kent reed bed in m...
4 days ago
Thérèse Goes Birding

23rd - 26th June 2014 - Trinidad Part 2 - The second part of our stay in Trinidad was spent in the central West area of the country. The next day we headed back up past Asa Wright to work our way ...
4 days ago
Joe Wynn Photography

Terning Circles - Oh flippin' 'eck this has been coming. These last few months have been pretty horrible (workwise that is, though the weather's been lovely i'm told), but t...
5 days ago
Appleton Wildlife Diary

Moth survey of the woods - We arrived in the wood before it got dark to help with the moth survey. There was a lot of setting up including generators, cables, lights and moth traps. ...
5 days ago
SophiEco Goes Wild

The garden at Five Oaks Cottage - Tucked away in a secret spot, along a hazel-shaded lane in the heart of the South Downs, is an unusual and quirky garden encircling a cottage near Petwor...
5 days ago
Garden Bird Year

Starlings, pollen and Phormiums - Juvenile Starling ( c. Dick Coombes)There's lots of interest from members of the public in exotic looking birds sporting a luminous orange head: apart from...
5 days ago
Naturanaute

An island of flowers – Part 5: Monte Tropical Gardens - As promised in my previous post, this is a visit to a nearby but completely different place, the Monte Palace Tropical Gardens. Located slightly higher (60...
5 days ago
Wild Nottingham

Wildlife Weekend at St.Ann’s Allotments - Originally posted on St Anns Allotments: St Anns Allotments Wildlife Weekend 2014, on 19th and 20th July, promises to be full of activity. The timetable in...
5 days ago
Wildlife Wanderings

The wonderful Pyrenees in early summer (Day 3 17/06/14) - the evening - WE quickly visited Gavarie, but were not very impressed by the village. In order to hunt for birds of prey though we drove up a local road going west, alt...
5 days ago
Butterfly Islands

Graylings Back on Down. - I hoped that the Graylings were out on Bleak Down by now and made the walk to their usual site on the Down.The area is one of the few remaining stretches ...
6 days ago
Adam Winson, Arboriculturist

The Emotional Life of the Arboricultural Consultant - *Like most jobs, working as an arboricultural consultant has its ups and downs. This light-hearted list suggests a top ten of the emotions we face in our ...
6 days ago
LENS: Long Eaton Natural History Society

Manor Farm and Toton Fields Nature Reserves - Jul 14 Manor Farm and Toton Fields Nature Reserves. Two of our local nature reserves.Also of historic interest.See site of Manor House and two water mills...
6 days ago
Landscapism

Exploring landscape on the web - new blog - One of the first actions when setting up this blog was to put together an evolving gazetteer of the broad, diverse and ever-expanding range of landscape...
6 days ago
Donegal Wildlife

Background research - Weather hasn't been too good recently, so I have been working away researching all manner of creatures from spiders to beetles, to parasitoids. A colleague...
6 days ago
BTO Cymru

Death in the afternoon - One of the joys of growing up in north west Wales was that even in the dark days when DDT had driven Peregrines to the brink of extinction, you could still...
6 days ago
Birding with Flowers

10 Years of "Birding with Flowers" - Last week was a period of anniversaries and of celebrations. On Wednesday the Hutton Cranswick Four presented me with a padded envelope, which I didn't e...
6 days ago
Gabriel Hemery

Crowdsourcing questions for global project - I am currently working on a global crowdsourcing project T20Q, which stands for Top 20 Questions for Forestry and Landscapes. Have you had your say about i...
6 days ago
Biodiversity Gatwick

Arachnophilia - Part deux - I'm not a big fan of cows. They are dirty, smelly and kill more people in Britain each year than almost any other animal. I have been threatened, bullied a...
1 week ago
Birds and a brew...

Moth up! - Had the 125W Robinson Trap out last night... Map-winged Swift *Hepialus fusconebulosa* 0018 1 *Pandemis cerasana* 0970 1 *Eurrhypara hortulata* ...
1 week ago
Once Upon

Also as well.... - Also.........I went for a walk Ullswater-ish.....simply because it had been a while. I vaguely intended to head for my beloved Borrowdale, but ended up, be...
1 week ago
Hemel Birding

COMMA BUTTERFLY at Boxmoor Wharf (B&Q), Corner Hall -
1 week ago
The Lilac Grove

Butterflies and Moths - The no mow section of the garden continues to pay dividends, with several garden firsts this week. I was luck enough to see this Common Blue butterfly A Sm...
1 week ago
Purbeck Footprints

And More Macro... - I took far too many shots in the meadows and so here are a few more. Mini-beasts and bugs are addictive.
1 week ago
Wildlife Snapshots

Bears at the Pond - I wasn't joking when I said Finland was mostly trees and water. The view from the plane as we approached Kajaani was typical, a few scattered fields, but ...
1 week ago
Daft Mumblings | …of a concerned amateur

Sweden in the Summer – Part I: Blue Skies, Red Barns and White Swans - Walking along the forested dirt track, passing the summer homes, the lake comes into view. Approaching the water, the track gives way to short cut grass su...
1 week ago
European Trees

Trees – we just don’t know, so why say that we do? - It’s not what we know about trees and forests, but what we don’t know that we should be selling to the public. Take the debate over the Defynnog Yew Vs. Fo...
1 week ago
The Thrifty Magpies Nest

Review: BioLite CampStove - This BioLite CampStove has been on D’s lust list for quite some time and one he could finally justify buying with the money he received for his birthday...
1 week ago
A life at the shoreline

Pyramidal Orchids bloom - Pyramidal Orchids add a spark of colour to patches above the high water mark near Lahinch marsh
1 week ago
BirdPoem

London Paramount: Round 1 - The photo above (taken from a display panel) shows the extent of Swanscombe Marshes as they fan out into the Thames in North Kent. This is the site of a...
1 week ago
Barcode Ecology

Apologies … - This blog is on a very short hiatus, but will return soon! Here’s a cute butterfly photo to make up for the break:
1 week ago
Trent Valley Beetles

Purple Hairstreak - Stumbled upon a rather obliging Purple Hairstreak. *Favonia quercus, *in Cotgrave Forest on Saturday. Hope you like the pictures. Also saw White letter Ha...
1 week ago
Victoria Hillman Nature Photography Blog

Continued Work With Adders - Hello, seems I'm a little behind with my blog posts so time to play a bit of catch up with posts all about orchids, grasshoppers and an update on adders al...
1 week ago
Hares on the Hill

An unexpected visitor last night - Our garden is full of trees, hawthorn and blackthorn and is intentionally quite wild; it backs onto woodland so we regularly get all sorts of interesting i...
1 week ago
Zoo Volunteer

New Arrivals: Visayan Warty Pig - Visayan Warty PigMoving on from hornbills, it is perhaps appropriate that we have just added to the collection a new species that shares the range and habi...
1 week ago
The Curious Naturalist

What do the scientific names of birds mean? - I have always found it easy to remember the scientific names of the birds and other organisms with which I work. In fact, for groups like fungi, insects a...
1 week ago
Hedgeland Tales

Hedgehogs in the garden - Just a small selection of the hundreds of photos that I have taken over the past couple of weeks of our visiting Hedgehogs. We regularly have at leas...
1 week ago
Frank Anderson Photography

Peek-a-boo Fox - This is a good time to see Foxes. This years youngsters are off on their own, out exploring and have less fear of people combined with an abundance of...
1 week ago
Wild About Bungay

Common interests - Outney Common, Mid June, 2014 Here are a few pictures of insects and a spider on Outney Common, taken during the Suffolk Wildlife Trust's dyke dipping even...
1 week ago
Samanta's Wildlife

Considering a career in animal testing - Last Tuesday I attended an Aquarium Technician interview in London only to discover, after talking at length about my knowledge and enthusiasm for fishkeep...
1 week ago
Natural Born Blogger

Italian Wall Lizards - Italian Wall Lizard – Sorrento, Italy Strange to recall that the last Italian Wall Lizards we’d seen were on the outskirts of Bournemouth. Great to finally...
1 week ago
The Wilder Garden

Crash landing - I didn't notice it on the way to the dustbin, just walked straight by. But on the way back to the house I couldn't miss the swift that was flattened face d...
1 week ago
Owls about that then!

An hour with an owl...... - I am currently very fortunate that a number of my monitored Little Owl sites now have fledged juveniles. At the majority of these sites I have to be satisf...
1 week ago
Wild and Wonderful

Scottish Odyssey 2014 ~ The Crex-Crex of the Corncrake - *"... a summer noise among the meadow hay…" * *John Clare* Corncrake making its 'Crex- crex' song. Photo credit: © David Gill 2014 I have a new 'lifer' on...
1 week ago
Entomacrographic

The lesser of two weevils - Whilst looking for Adonis Blue butterflies on West Yatton Down I discovered this little chap standing on a Hazel leaf. Further investigation revealed it to...
1 week ago
Ben's Birds and Beastly Bugs

Volunteering in the rain - Recently I went to Chilswell Valley to help cut back reeds and nettles (they were up to the height of my face!). Like last time it poured with rain which ...
1 week ago
The Cowboy Birder

It's oh so quiet - The song by quirky Icelandic pop princess Bjork kind of sums up mid-summer birding, and a walk through Wanstead Park at the weekend confirmed this. The pai...
1 week ago
Wildlife news from Wild Lochaber

Whale at Last - Have been busy with Glenloy Wildlife trips over the last couple of weeks, and places, sightings and people are beginning to blur somewhat! The weather in L...
1 week ago
What's Wild in Cornwall

In praise of brown butterflies - When your mind turns to butterflies on a summer’s day, it is usually the Red Admirals, Painted Ladies, Silver-washed Fritillaries and Peacocks that flutter...
1 week ago
Linacre Blogger

Garden Moths- Hawk-moths are comimg! - Its been quite a while since I last blogged about my moth trapping activities in my garden (click on the label Garden Moths for details of previous blogs)...
2 weeks ago
Mid Cheshire Barn Owls

A New (Unwanted?) Record - The discovery of this new female brooding her young owlets yesterday afternoon threw up a number of anomalies that go against conventional wisdom. At firs...
2 weeks ago
Alan Watson Featherstone's Blog

Early summer in Glen Affric, part 2 - On Sunday 8th June, after spending more than two hours with an oak tree (Quercus petraea) and a young hazel (Corylus avellana) beside the road at the easte...
2 weeks ago
National Trust Fell Rangers

Fix the Fells Volunteering Day - A few weeks ago as part of our Fix the Fells work we held a volunteering day giving members of the public the chance to come along and help with some path ...
2 weeks ago
A.W.Birder: Always on the lookout for fine birds...

Is it Autumn Already? - I had a really productive June and after last weekends twitch (details here and here) thought that would be that until September/October time. Well, turns ...
2 weeks ago
Wild About...

Farne Islands: Part 2 (04/06/2014) - So a couple of days on from the first trip out to the Farnes and it's time to go again. The forecast was terrible and the forecast rain was with us from th...
2 weeks ago
Austin's Birding Blog

04/07/2014 Norton Marsh, Warrington - Osprey: Another after work trip but this time with Dawn. I was hoping to see the bird perching on the fence posts however when I arrived it was miles away...
2 weeks ago
Steve Oakes' Wildlife Photography Blog ~ Latest Updates

Wild Bird Photography by Steve Oakes - 5 July 2014, Pwllheli. - We've been away for a few days visiting my wife's mother in North Wales. Weather was a bit mixed but an early start on Saturday morning paid dividends wi...
2 weeks ago
Keepers Cottage Wildlife Garden Diary

Logan Botanic Garden Bioblitz–28th June 2014 - Great fun helping out Butterfly Conservation SW Scotland at the Bioblitz at Logan Botanic Garden. Here is a selection of things we found and views of the g...
2 weeks ago
Matt Gould's Wildlife Photography

Meadow Pipit. - This is another photo taken in Scotland. It was taken after the whole class walked up the hill (that felt like a mountain and wasn't too far off) behind th...
2 weeks 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...
2 weeks ago
Ron Bury's Wildlife

Scotland’s first full humpback whale post mortem for Mull’s first stranding of iconic species - [image: Recovering dead Humpback Whale]Recovering dead Humpback Whale Scotland’s first full post mortem of a humpback whale – found dead at Fishnish on the ...
2 weeks ago
indie birder

More Twitching: Black Scoter and Short-toed Eagle - *Short-toed Eagle, Ashdown Forest, East Sussex - Sunday 22nd June 2014* Lunchtime walks along the river and the frustratingly-rare trips to the patch have...
2 weeks ago
Flying high!

Catch up time again! - *A few holiday snaps taken on my holiday in the Algarve. 19th-29th May.* The highlight of the holiday was seeing a Little Bittern with a chick at Quinta do...
2 weeks ago
Alan Tilmouth

Pinch Punch First of the Month - I headed for the Church pool this morning to check for duck broods, I didn't stay long, clouds of pollen floating up from an ungrazed and overgrown path se...
2 weeks ago
Nature Poetry, Sketches, And the rest.

Westmorland's Epipactis Schmalhauseneii rare hybrid Orchids "Feature Indicators" - This is a guide I produced last year (2013) to try and help me with the identification of the rare hybrid orchid which occurs locally in the area once known...
3 weeks ago
Woodlouse House

End of Month View - June 2014 - Time to cut back spent flowers and watch new colours take over. The foxgloves and poppies are dropping their petals but I want the seeds for next year s...
3 weeks ago
Austin Thomas Photography - Blog

Starling in flight from my Photography Hide… - I have been taking some pictures from my Photography Hide recently, whilst waiting for my local Owls to show me their young… One of the openings of the hid...
3 weeks ago
Murmuration

Hare & Tortoise - Viper's bugloss, Breckland, Norfolk. Photographed by Jo SinclairWeeds. Jarvis Cocker threw shapes on stage singing about them. Richard Mabey cooked them a...
3 weeks ago
Ian Butler Photography

228/365 Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax - Using a prime lens will always have its advantages and disadvantages with photography. Sharpness, focus speed and lens quality is … Continue reading →
3 weeks ago
Pete Cooper Wildlife

Nature Diary: The New Forest, 18th June - The bliss of beginning a summer liberal of commitments (or at least ones I rather wouldn’t do). Having come home to Hampshire from university five days bef...
3 weeks ago
From the muddy banks of the Dee....

The Bumpy Road to Borselv... - Nordic Adventures Part One: Along the bumpy road to Borselv I found my niche. I say found, I suspect that I always really knew what and where it was, but o...
3 weeks ago
Jenny McLaren- art, fieldnotes & findings

Sketches on a sunny day. - "Bob finds a shady spot" by Jenny McLaren 2014 I had a nice afternoons sketching in the Highland Wildlife Park yesterday, I did some very quick studies of ...
3 weeks ago
The Natural Stone

Back to Broadway - The Broadway Cemetery conservation area looking very nice at the moment. Mainly common insects but some reasonable photos. Common Darter *Sympetrum striola...
3 weeks ago
Jason Ridge Photography

Garden Hedgehog Update - Its been a busy and exciting couple of nights at our garden hedgehog feeding box. We invested in a camera trap so we could see...
3 weeks ago
DGPix Wildlife and Nature Photography

Blakeney Point 2014 - I paid 2 trips to the reserve on Blakeney Point this year - a thin spit of land branching out of the north Norfolk coastline into the north sea, home to a ...
3 weeks ago
Wessex Wanderings

Avebury, Rockley and Winterbourne Monkton - The year is almost half over and I am well behind on my normal schedule of walks. My excuse for the last week or so has been it has been too hot. With a ...
3 weeks ago
A dribble of knowledge

What a difference a shrew makes - Last year, I wrote an article about how we used pine marten (Martes martes) scats or faeces to detect the DNA of small mammals that the pine marten had bee...
3 weeks ago
Wild up North

Unbridled Terns - Artic TernsA trip to the Farne Islands is great with or without rarities, and the fact that a Bridled Tern was reported on Inner Farne was coincidental to ...
4 weeks ago
The Wold Ranger

New beginnings.... - This is just a short note to inform you all that this blog has closed and will no longer be updated. I am currently working on a new blog where I will keep...
4 weeks ago
Why watch wildlife?

Pied Wagtails in the garden - I had a little surprise the other day when a Pied Wagtail with a single juvenile dropped briefly into the garden. As common as these birds are today, I sti...
4 weeks ago
Wildlife on our Allotment

Common Asparagus Beetle - I'm glad we don't grow asparagus. I was shocked to see a couple of plants on our allotment site infested with eggs, larvae and the adult common asparagus b...
4 weeks ago
A Birding Odyssey

Scottish Windfarm Bird Steering Group. - Whilst I was away in Speyside around a month ago I picked up a Scottish Provincial Press supplement entitled Energy North. It's packed full of really inte...
4 weeks ago
Ron's Wildlife Photography blog

White-tailed Eagles – Isle of Mull Workshop - I held my annual white-tailed eagle workshop again last [...]
4 weeks ago
Hagbourne Wildlife

Scarlet Tigers - The Butts Piece Scarlet Tiger Moth colony produced a good crop of caterpillars in April, and as expected the adults are starting to appear: Here’s a graph ...
4 weeks ago
Dawn Monrose Nature Photography

The King of the River - The Norfolk Broads, a watery wonderland that has to be one of my favourite places. At dawn and dusk it’s a magical wild world, that huge Norfolk sky reflec...
5 weeks ago
George's wonderful wildlife report

An update on all things wild ! - Hello and welcome to my latest blog, I hope you are all well and have some nice plans for the summer holidays which are nearly upon us, lets hope we get th...
5 weeks ago
Ian McCall

Gruinard Bay -
5 weeks ago
Cath Hodsman British Wildlife Artist

“Mariposa”, Cath’s contribution to the Cirencester Hare Festival, 2014 - Blog Cath was really pleased to be asked to take part in the community project, The 2014 Festival of the Hares in Cirencester. This is “Mariposa”, her beau...
5 weeks ago
naturestimeline

A naturestimeline Facebook page production – Snail pictures! - As stated, some photographic captures from my bird research activities from recent years. Should I receive welcoming feedback, more images will follow over...
5 weeks ago
Lee Brady's Recording Blog

Chased Snake Takes Bite... - The injury happened as he tried to catch the adder, to take a photograph, having nearly ridden over it. via www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk Not very sensible.
5 weeks ago
shirls gardenwatch

Wordless Wednesday: Snap Happy - Snapping off last spent rhododendron flower trusses of 2014 Photo snapping glorious sight of first wisteria flowers for 2014 *Images captured June 10th. ...
5 weeks ago
Wildlife Matters

A spring in our steps - Spring is well under way – the flowers are blossoming, bird chicks are growing fast and the weather is occasionally warm. Fittingly, the trainees are also ...
1 month ago
Holywell Birding

Sparrowhawks and Ducklings - I've been lucky enough this year to be able to follow the story of our local Sparrowhawk pair at the nest, today I've spent the majority of my time in the ...
1 month 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...
1 month ago
Duckwoman's Diary

Tommy Noddys and Cuddy Ducks - As business grows there is always more to do and I've realised, now that I have Facebook and @StartBirding on Twitter, that I've not been updating my blog...
1 month ago
Seabed Habitats

Marmo the Octopus cuts the World Oceans Day Earth Cake!! - Further Information Links Galway Atlantaquaria website and Facebook Page Ryan Institute Geological Society of London’s Great Geobake Off with Entries and R...
1 month ago
Kingfisher Diary

Feeding young - After the failure of the first nest burrow, the kingfishers wasted no time excavating a new burrow. A month later and for the first time this year I’ve s...
1 month ago
leavesnbloom

Garden Photography - Dream With Open Eyes - [image: Garden photography by Rosie Nixon] Do you take photos of your garden? I don't just take photos ... *I grow photos! * and I've some exciting news ...
1 month 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 known...
1 month ago
Birders in Boxers

Savi's Warbler : Newport Wetlands...... - During my week off I paid a couple of visits to Newport Wetlands to see and attempt to photograph the Savi's Warbler found by Matt Meehan, my first visit w...
1 month ago
Landscapes and Wildflower Habitats

Fly Orchids on my Local Patch - Scout Scar is a limestone crag situated high above the beautiful Lyth Valley in the quiet south east corner of the Lake District, a couple of miles from my...
1 month ago
Sissinghurst Birds etc...

Back on patch and a photography present :-) - Pictures first for a change :-) Swallow Garden Warbler An intent looking Little Owl Large Red Damselfly Mediterranean GullThe patch has been neglected over...
1 month ago
Chasing Tails - A wildlife photographer's blog

Yet more hare workshop images from this year... - For those that don't follow my regular updates on Facebook (click the tab above if you want to) here's a few recent images from my brown hare workshops (yo...
1 month ago
The Urban Countryman

How High? - It has been a tough day clearing hawthorn scrub from the top of the steep south-facing slope of the North Downs and I am looking forward to collapsing into...
1 month 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...
2 months ago
Wader World

AW 350 - For Sale: - *This Lowe Pro AW 350 Scope Photo Travel back pack is curently for sale. It is in very good condition, almost brand new only used a few times and is in f...
2 months 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...
2 months ago
Wild Reviews

Hebridean showers - Thanks to everyone that read my last post and gave an opinion, great to hear that most of you agreed with my view on things. SNH also read my post and left...
2 months ago
The Naturephile

Birds and bees… - …and butterflies. A male large white butterfly (Pieris brassicae, aka the ‘cabbage white’) zeroing in on a potential mate… I normally try to avoid taking p...
2 months ago
Parus

Underwhelming - If I had to describe my Essex yearlist progress, I'd call it "underwhelming". Which is hardly surprising - these things always start with the best of inten...
2 months ago
Ecology Escapades

Garden List 2014 - #gardenlist2014 This isn’t an established hash tag, rather it was created by a fellow ecologist and blogger with the intention of recording everything she ...
2 months ago
Beyond the Riverbank

Birthday, Norfolk and a Ratty Afternoon... - Once again, I find myself apologising for the lack of posts and the long period of silence. Poland seems like a very long time ago now. If you would like...
2 months 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
2 months ago
Oscar Dewhurst Wildlife Photography

Peru 5 - I'm currently sitting in my hotel room in Puerto Maldonado. I'm here a week earlier than planned due to a miners' protest that's been going on here. The re...
2 months ago
Herts Nature

unit link terbaik di Indonesia Commonwealth Life - Menjadi yang terbaik dalam melindungi dan meningkatkan kesejahteraan Finansial Anda, Bisnis, dan Masyarakat. KOMITMEN Senantiasa memberikan pelayanan yan...
2 months ago
Tarka Challenge

Venture Travel Magazine - Here is my interview with Venture Travel Magazine - http://www.venturetravelmag.com/blog/wildlife-challenge
3 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months 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 ...
3 months 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...
3 months 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 months 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 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months 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 months 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 months 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...
4 months 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...
4 months 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 ...
4 months 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...
4 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...
5 months ago
Earthfast Images

Shieldbug Nymph - [image: Shieldbug Nymph by Roger B.] Shieldbug Nymph, a photo by Roger Butterfield on Flickr.
5 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.
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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 ...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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?
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
8 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 ...
8 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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. ...
10 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 ...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
11 months ago
Ann Kelley - On The Edge

POND - ALDERFLY?
11 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...
11 months ago
Irish Wildlife Photography

Wren -
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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
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
Ninjameys

Functional Adaptations to Brachiating in Gibbons - Gibbons are the smallest of the extant ape species and are, with the exception of the Genus Homo, the most … Continue reading →
3 years ago
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