UK and Ireland Natural History Bloggers: July 2012

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Birding For Pleasure

GOOD FENCES - I photographed these 2 images in Ward Park and they are Greylag geese in the second shot I am linking with GOOD FENCES. *Thanks you for visiting and also...
1 hour ago
Alan Watson Featherstone's Blog

An aphid discovery in National Insect Week - "Insects that many people have negative associations with, for example aphids (which generally are only thought of as being garden or greenhouse pests), ar...
6 hours ago
Wilden Marsh

Wilden Marsh North Pasture - North, south and east views from mid way along North Pasture this evening.
8 hours ago
Wild and Wonderful

Home Patch - Ladybird, Moth Larva and ?Bee - For some days now I have been keeping an eye on these Blackfly in the hope that they might encourage Ladybirds into the garden. And they did, two to be p...
9 hours ago
NI Bird Pics

Dick Glasgow - Stonechat in the rain -
9 hours ago
NI Birds

Bird News Wednesday 20th June - A Great Spotted Woodpecker was at Ballyskeagh, near Lisburn this evening (Robert Scott) Thanks to Dick Glasgow for this picture of a male Hen Harrier from ...
9 hours ago
Appleton Wildlife Diary by Alex White

Day 20 Of 30 Days Wild – Ladybirds - For one of the 30 Days Wild two years ago I did a blog about Ladybirds https://appletonwildlifediary.wordpress.com/2016/06/09/look-for-ladybirds-day-8-30-da...
9 hours ago
Murf's Wildlife

Whinchats mid summer - I made a trip up the middle Shannon today and came across at least six Whinchats along the river. Whinchats males and females on Shannon River John N Murphy
9 hours ago
Musings on the Wild

Global Warming – Are we missing the point? - *Global Warming – Are we missing the point?* As a conservationist for nearly 30 years, the issue of global warming despite its topicality has often faded i...
10 hours ago
Cholsey Wildlife

Little Ringed Plover - An overall cloudy day, 18°, fresh W. A good find by Gerry Sexton today of a *Little Ringed Plover* on the ponds area at Cholsey Meadows. Not sure of the l...
11 hours ago
Killy Birder

Hebridean & St Kilda Odyssey..Pt4..Harris and Lewis - 31stMay. As I loaded my luggage into the car early morning I welcomed the overcast sky and lower temperatures. I had hoped that the hotel would offer us ...
12 hours ago
Tricia's Tales

Lostwithiel - I headed off this morning to meet friend Jan - it was raining. It was an interesting last few minutes to find her home but she valiantly waved at me to di...
13 hours ago
Valley Naturalist

Wildflowers of Pontypool Town Centre - Red Valerian Now don't get excited urban Pontypool is nothing like a species rich hay meadow in the spring but it does have a variable mix of wildflowers...
13 hours ago
Hampshire Dragonflies

From Headwaters to Heath - Wednesday 13th June The time was right for another New Forest visit, this time connecting with our White-legged Damselfly populations along the Blackwater ...
14 hours ago
Islay Natural History Trust

Gartbreck: Super Seashore Bonanza Walk Success! - Although we were unfortunate with the rainy weather that turned in on us whilst on a seashore wander of Gartbreck, we powered through and had much success ...
15 hours ago
Cornish Rock Pools

Friendly Fish at Kynance Cove - A day at Kynance Cove on the Lizard Peninsula has become a fixture in the Cornish Rock Pools calendar. The smooth, serpentine cliffs don’t create many hidi...
16 hours ago
Ring Watching At Antrim Marina

Millisle Hotspot... - Health problems continue to dominate my life at the moment. With no further problems with my left foot, when a wooden pallet fell on it, on the 17th March...
19 hours ago
An English Wood

Bush Vetch #wildflowers - Vicia sepium. Provisional identification. Picture taken June 2. If you can help with identification, please leave a comment below.
19 hours ago
Austin's Birding Blog

19/06/2018 Undisclosed Site, Leicestershire - Lizard Orchid: (Himantoglossum hircinum) Like a plant from another planet this magnificent rare orchid stood tall along an unassuming roadside verge. The ...
19 hours ago
Rockablog

Eggs, pegs and chicks with legs. - It's been a busy auld time around here on Rockabill as of late. We've had a lot going on with visitors from Coquet Island being drafted into help with our...
21 hours ago
Birds to Bryophytes

Red-headed avocets, Keldron Brook Wetlands - A traveling day today but with my flight only scheduled to leave Brisbane at 14:00 I was undecided how best to use the morning. I decided that the best o...
22 hours ago
Common By Nature

Dramatic drone footage reveals bird’s eye view of tree top heronry - Drone footage of a large heronry could shed new light on bird populations across the country. Remarkable footage shot at the Woodland Trust-owned Parrs Woo...
1 day ago
Jottings of a novice nature watcher!

In the garden - Our garden is a very busy place not, just me doing the gardening but all the other residents and visitors
1 day ago
Moths of Boughton-under-Blean

- Last Saturday I visited Luddenham to try out a pheromone lure for Hornet Moths. This was highly successful with 4 being quickly attracted to the lure and a...
1 day ago
Bugman Jones

Anatomically correct — a challenge is issued - Perhaps there is nothing more smart-arse than the spiteful sci-fi critic piping up from the back of the room “Well, that’s scientifically impossible”. We’v...
1 day ago
Another Bird Blog

Underground And Overground. - We’ve had a few dreary mornings and I’d waited days for a bright, clear morning to drive into the hills with camera at the ready. Tuesday looked promising ...
1 day ago
Midmarsh Jottings

A Sticky End - Close views of a Sundew leaf showing all the sticky blobs waiting to trap any unsuspecting insect. The sticky blobs surround nectar glands. I assume those ...
2 days ago
Birding with Flowers

A Warmer Week - Tuesday morning began with drizzle so Oakhill proved out of the question, so we went to Blacktoft Sands. Apparently, shortly after I passed North Cave on...
2 days ago
The Early Birder

Adonis Blue. - A windy foray across the southern slope of chalk down-land last Friday produced numerous Meadow Browns and Small Heath, a few tatty Common Blues plus recen...
2 days ago
Butterfly Islands

Plenty of Summer Butterflies on Show. - Butterfly numbers have dramatically increased now that the summer butterflies are on the wing.Today in Bouldnor Forest Marbled White and Silver-washed Frit...
2 days ago
Linacre Blogger

Linacre Insects - June 2018 - This is my first post of 2018 about the insect life that can be found at Linacre. I had a visit on 1st June when it was a lovely sunny day. I spent some ti...
2 days ago
Too Lazy To Weed

A Lot Going on at the Allotment - We’re well over half way through 30 Days Wild already, but I’ve not had chance to blog much this month. This certainly hasn’t been due to a shortage of wil...
2 days ago
The Roving Bumbarrel

Mayesbrook Park - Mid-morning walk in the hope of photographing some invertebrates. Annoyingly it was overcast with light drizzle to start with. It did dry up and the sun sh...
2 days ago
The Lyons Den

Introduction to Spiders - Last Friday I ran a course for the first time. An Introduction to Spiders at Iping Common. This fantastic reserve is Sussex's best site for spiders, with ...
2 days ago
Elliot's Birding Diaries

Snowy Owl…. - Whilst on route with Luke for a weekend break in Wales, news came through via R. Sandham that a Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus), had just been spotted near the...
3 days ago
Murtagh's Meadow

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3 days ago
florafaunauk

VC63 Garden Moths 15 June 2018 Post Hectar - *Weather:* Rescinding breeze to Occ Light Breeze / Still Temp 17o aprox Air Warm Dry Post Storm Hectar gale. Dawn. [image: IMG_3776xx] *MV125 Robinson*...
3 days ago
Pear tree and Beyond

Fishing lakes at Shorne ! - Shorne Woods Country Park has always held many happy memories for me, when my children were young they were encouraged to participate in the Nature club a...
4 days ago
Purbeck Footprints

Recognition - There can be no doubt that if you spend enough time with a wild animal a relationship, of sorts, can build up and the animal will recognise you. I get th...
4 days ago
The Early Birder

Tawny Owl - I took a lovely midweek evening stroll in the Goyt Valley, Derbyshire and was really on the lookout for Spotted Flycatchers and other breeding activity of ...
5 days ago
Hethersett Birdlife

A little bit of wild June - We have hit the middle of #30dayswild the wildlife trusts annual invitation to do something wild and revel in nature each day even if it is only for a few ...
5 days ago
Random Jottings

Bee Orchids - It's Orchid time again, so Malcolm and I have recently spent some time searching for these delicate and beautiful little flowers. The most abundant are as ...
5 days ago
Zygoma

Friday mystery object #332 - This week I’ve been looking at birds, so I thought I’d share the joy with you. Do you have any thoughts about what this might be? I expect that quite a few...
5 days ago
Isle of Wight Dragons

Summer Dragonflies on the Wing. - In Bouldnor Forest today a first Southern Hawker hunting along the forest ride.At the ponds one mature Ruddy Darter and another maturing Ruddy Darter.While...
6 days ago
A year of my nature hunting

Post 485 - Lord Lieutenant & Cracking Cairngorms - Hey everyone, I don't know where the time goes these days but glad I've finally found the time to write up a little blog about a recent visit I had to the ...
6 days ago
Bangor West Patchwork Challenge

Muck in the Mist - June 2nd saw us heading for Ballylumford and a trip to the Gobbins via Muck Island. The target was breeding seabirds. There was good news and bad news. The...
6 days ago
Irish Wildlife Photography

Common Green Grasshopper -
6 days ago
Wildlife Conservation from the Heart of the Levels in Somerset UK

Wildlife Gardening the easy way. - In preparing for our village entry for the Britain in Bloom competition I have suggested we should try to promote wildlife life gardening. I am copying adv...
6 days ago
Pam's Place

Fairburn Ings - Saturday morning we set out for Fairburn, they have set up a viewing point for the Spoonbills on the site and we thought we'd go have a look. We were there...
1 week ago
A life at the shoreline

Red throated Divers Lahinch beach - A calm day has has brought 7 Red throated Divers fairly close in to Lahinch beach, very flighty unsettled moulting birds, their busy activity was attractin...
1 week ago
Wild Barley

Minsmere - Minsmere: 1,000 hectares of nature reserve managed by the Royal Society for Protection of Birds. A mosaic of habitats from woodland and open grassland whic...
1 week ago
Butterfly Pictures

Orange Tip - Anthocharis cardamines - Following on from my posts about caterpillars that I had observed through to being butterflies last year, here is the story of some Orange Tips from this ...
1 week ago
Wessex Wanderings

Bramshil 2018 - Bramshill walks Walks around the Bramshill plantation. Bramshill Orchids 2010 Bramshill and Riseley Bramshill 2012 Bramshill 2013 Bramshill and Hazeley Heat...
1 week ago
LENS: Long Eaton Natural History Society

Would you like to go on a LENS Walk? - June 11 Monday Anchor Cave Ingleby Meet 7pm layby on road after John Thompson Inn DE73 7HW Approx 2.5miles, very steep hill Leader Dominic Bryce This wal...
1 week ago
Coffee Shop Nature Notes

Jackdaws - We waited so so long for the spring to arrive and after a blast of blossom it has quickly flurried into summer. What a short energetic month May has bee...
1 week ago
Brian's Birding Blog

Bonny gull returns to Oare for a sixth year - A Sunday morning trip down to Oare Marsh in Kent had us picking up a nice year tick when we lucked on the summering Bonaparte's Gull just as we reached the...
1 week ago
Lancashire and Lakeland Outback Adventure Wildlife Safaris

Struggling - *The Safari is struggling* to put finger to keyboard at the moment. It's not that we've had nowt to tell you about as we've been doing loads but we've also...
1 week ago
Daft Mumblings | …of a concerned amateur

A last task of spring? - With only 11 days to go until the summer solstice my visit yesterday to my Breeding Bird Survey gird square really seemed to mark the change from spring to...
1 week ago
shirls gardenwatch

#30DaysWild Day 9 - Moth Night, this week - Moths weren’t captured by camera on my first garden wander at 9pm last night. Wild flowers and a snail were. It was a cooler night after some rain breaking...
1 week ago
Hagbourne Wildlife

Scarlet tigers – early this year - Just the odd one so far; last year the best show was a couple of weeks later, so here’s hoping… Meanwhile. it’s good to see a few linnets around Advertisem...
1 week ago
Wildlife Snapshots

Yellowstone 3 - Head Sticks - I was going to have a title about horns, but a quick bit of education has enables me to understand the animals featured this time mostly don't. Have horns ...
1 week ago
Why watch wildlife?

30 Days Wild – Day 8 – Nature run - A very quick post to mark Day 8. I got up, had a run along the Foss listening to the sounds of birds singing and calling, in alarm, for territory, for food...
1 week ago
Pegler Birding

More Dragons and Damsels - on Sunday 20th May, 2018 - *I'll start by apologising to fellow bloggers for not visiting your blogs lately. I have been away on holiday in the Outer Hebrides where I had limited acc...
1 week ago
Nature Poetry, Sketches, And the rest.

55 Years Ago - Up past Sunnyslack to Watterfalls - *(55 years ago *– somewhere around 1960) Up past Sunnyslack to “Watterfalls, Past Maisies dad’s farm and Coldwells, And past lonely barn stood there forlo...
1 week ago
My Life Outside

#30DaysWIld - Patch Birding and Sowing Wildflowers - Each year I'm always caught off guard by the rapid greening of our landscape. After months of nothing but barren browns it's as if we wake one morning to d...
2 weeks ago
The farm upon the hill | Wildlife blog from West Wales

Swallows return - This year, Spring took a while to appear in Pembrokeshire . Snow, sleet and rain one minute, the next burning heat . Days lengthened, April melted into May...
2 weeks ago
Birding the day away!

Bulgaria and Romania ~ May '18 - *A long weekend trip with Jono L, flying in to Bucharest, Romania landing just after midnight and then driving the E81 towards Constanta and the Black Sea....
2 weeks ago
FABirding

Reed Bunting. - A male *Reed Bunting*.
2 weeks ago
Birders in Boxers

The last couple of weeks......... - A few pics from the last couple of weeks, Wood Warbler at Darren Woods, Maesteg, Meadow Pipit at Maesteg golf course, Grasshopper Warbler at Garnwen, Maest...
2 weeks ago
National Trust Fell Rangers

Starting repairs at Boredale Hause - It's that time of year again and work has now officially started on this years upland path repairs. Our biggest project this year is repairing both the foo...
2 weeks ago
LOOSE AND LEAFY in Winter

NO COMMENTS FOR A WHILE - I've discovered a glitch with Google's new comments arrangements which means anyone can leave any ole comment they like while pretending to be YOU. To prot...
2 weeks ago
Harbour Master

TWO IN A WEEK - Be waiting a long time for a adult rose coloured starling to turn up in kent,bugger me i see two in a week,big thanks to BH on finding the north foreland b...
2 weeks ago
I Love Arnside and Silverdale

Snippets of Wealth (June 2018) - *Tuesday 19th June 2018 - Hutton Roof "Taking and fixing 4 cages around the larger Helleborines and checking out others. 1030hrs to 1300hrs "More Fly O...
2 weeks ago
Sustainable Garden

Japan slaughter 122 Minke whales - KOJI TSURUOKA Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Embassy of Japan in the United Kingdom 101-104 Piccadilly London W1J 7JT Dear Ambassador Ts...
2 weeks ago
Heart of Wild

Flight of a Pixie - And she made it. This is the long awaited sequel to my last post whereupon I decided to keep a shiny, brown, finely tapered pupae found in the garden hidde...
2 weeks ago
Thérèse Goes Birding

26th May 2018 - Dubai - The trip to Dubai was a relaxing bank holiday break, but I managed to get a half day of birding in with Mark Smiles, who was a great guide. Whilst by the ...
3 weeks ago
Flying high!

Menorca in May 2018. - If I had known in advance that the UK would be at least 5-6c hotter than on the Island of Menorca at the beginning of May then I may have stayed at home.;-...
3 weeks ago
The Heirs of Gilbert

Kazakhstan - A bit different this week as I have just returned from a brilliant birding trip to Kazakhstan. Nearly 200 species logged in eight days. We covered a wide r...
3 weeks ago
The Cowboy Birder

Eastern Poland - Day 3 (Bialowieza and the road to Warsaw) - After yesterday's long day in the field the plan was to have a more leisurely start so we planned to meet up about 6am, but I woke early and decided to hav...
3 weeks ago
Wildlife on our Allotment

Damselfly - We've seen damselflies in the greenhouse before, but this one is interesting as it's just emerged from the water and moulted its final skin to go from an a...
3 weeks ago
European Trees

Arboreal Bullsh*t and the Brexit Blues… - Last Friday I did a talk in a Devon seaside town, the evening was beautiful and the door was left open as I ploughed through photos of the arboreal delight...
3 weeks ago
Gabriel Hemery

Green Gold talk at WoodWords 2018 - This week I was pleased to give a talk at WoodWords 2018, run by Sylva Foundation, about my latest book-in-the-making Green Gold: the Lost Journals of Jo...
3 weeks ago
Hares on the Hill

I have come back to my trees, thank you. - The Welsh phrase “dod yn ôl at fy nghoed” meaning “to return to a balanced state of mind”, literally means “to return to my trees”. Or more fully “Dwi we...
3 weeks ago
Sorby Natural History Society, Sheffield

Field meetings in June 2018 - Our June field meetings include...
3 weeks ago
Considering Birds

Review: Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? Lev Parikian - Lev Parikian is a professional conductor, a writer and, until the beginning of January 2016, a lapsed birdwatcher. Then, while he was on a simple walk thro...
3 weeks ago
A Birding Odyssey

A policy that did change ! - Yesterday saw various sections of barbed wire had been removed around fields on the Spurn Penninsula, a commendable response from the Yorkshire Wildlife Tr...
3 weeks ago
Biodiversity Gatwick

Airport bryology - Guest post: Brad Scott (Sussex Botanical Recording Society) How many mosses and liverworts might you expect to find at Gatwick Airport? Surely it is hardl...
3 weeks ago
Ruffled Feathers

Curlew Cam 2018 - Curlew nest monitoring and protection is in full swing at the moment with several nests fenced and 50 eggs safely installed in incubators - fingers cross...
4 weeks ago
Esticadinho Nature

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

Update 11 - *Have a good week*
4 weeks ago
UK Wildlife

Taking Stacked images of live insects on the Olympus EM1 mark ii - In the last few months I have posted a number of stacked images of live invertebrates (and occasionally vertebrates!) and people have asked two questions: ...
4 weeks ago
leavesnbloom

BBC Beechgrove Garden Appearance - Tern TV got in touch early this year and asked if I'd like to go on episode 1 of BBC2's Beechgrove garden. It's Scotland's favourite gardening television s...
4 weeks ago
Sissinghurst Birds etc...

Canada May 2018.....Algonquin National Park - The Blue Spruce Resort at the west side of Algonquin was the base for the next two nights, looking out over a mostly frozen lake, we still heard the haunti...
4 weeks ago
Naturanaute

First there were rocks… - I am a botanist. I studied taxonomy, I learned all about plant ecology, I spent days looking at pollen grains under a microscope, I became a master of iden...
4 weeks ago
Keith Balmer on six legs...

TL0830 Green Hairstreak - I set out with GPS in hand to re-discover Green Hairstreaks populations in 1km squares not seen in at least 10 years. I found this one at Barton Hills 10m ...
5 weeks ago
Wader World

Forest - End of the Week & the Weekend. - *Had a couple of visits on Forest with an all-dayer at the tail end of last week and a couple of hours again tail end of this weekend, highlights being t...
5 weeks ago
The Caged Naturalist

Cuckoo! 100 Up - Since I started doing the Patchwork Challenge, I've reached 99 species each year and then got stuck for a number of weeks. My 99th bird this year was *s...
5 weeks ago
Philip Strange Science and Nature Writing

Nurdle hunting in west Dorset - You may have never knowingly encountered a nurdle but these small plastic pellets are the raw material of the plastics industry and are ferried around th...
5 weeks ago
Cabinet of Curiosities

The Natural History of Upper Teesdale - *Durham Wildlife Trust has produced an entirely new edition of The Natural History of Upper Teesdale, perfectly timed to coincide with the blooming of spri...
1 month ago
Irish Wildlife - Blog

Your personal ecocide - Think you are environmentally aware? Are you one of the exceptions who is doing.your bit for the planet? The answer is that even if you think you are, you...
1 month ago
Matt Cole Wildlife Photography

Photomicroscopy: Different image styles - I mentioned in a previous post that I have been using a microscope quite a lot in recent months and have been very much enjoying taking different styles of...
1 month ago
Sketchbook Squirrel

Additions - With the new website under construction, I have been working on lots of new ideas to help my ever enthusiastic students get the very best out of learning w...
1 month ago
Views of the Ock

Water Voles 2018 - Recent studies have shown that water voles in the UK are in even more trouble than previously thought, with a decline of 30% in recent years ( https://www.t...
1 month ago
Marilyn's Wildlife Diary

Not finding moths in Epping Forest - Some time ago I booked a day course at the Epping Forest FSC entitled 'Spring Moths for Beginners', thinking it would help me with moth ID as I am now runn...
1 month ago
Hedgeland Tales

Some more Otter photos -
1 month ago
Ecologica

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

Pagan sampler interlude - New substantive post on the way soon, an archaeology of walking; in the meantime here's a musical interlude, some post-Easter pagan and animist sounds. Tr...
2 months ago
Ian McCall

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2 months ago
Pete Cooper Wildlife

Silent Fields Revisited: Don’t let shifting baselines tell us how much nature we can have - Memories are fickle old things. They are the sum of who we are as people. Our best days and worst days, while long gone physically, can stay with us for li...
2 months ago
Wildlife Matters

“Simon Says” – Oil in Poole Bay: now is the time to stand up for wildlife - (Above an example of an offshore oil rig) Drilling in Poole Bay Recently a proposal to drill a 1,800m deep exploration oil well out at sea in Poole Bay was...
2 months ago
EFRS

The heat is on - *(CLICK ON A PIC AND IT WILL GO BIG)* Yes it was indeed. The sun, a bit like this blog, hasn't been seen like for ever. So being the fair weather bir...
2 months ago
Hemel Birding

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

Project Puffin - When I was invited to spend a week working with RSPB's Project Puffin team last year, I didn't realise that I would have to travel all the way to the mo...
2 months ago
Wildlife Wanderings

Early spring on RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset - THE warm weather has kick started spring with amphibians, reptiles and insects appearing at last, and resident birds singing: toads brimstone comma roe d...
2 months ago
Barcode Ecology

Dreaming of summer – Latvian wildlife part 1 - Spring is taking forever to properly arrive, and more cold weather is due. I’ve sown various seeds, and even have a few seedlings, but spring (let alone ...
2 months ago
Seabed Habitats

Geoscience and Sustainable Development - Guest Post by Dr. Joel C. Gill Executive Director, Geology for Global Development Joel is an interdisciplinary geoscientist, integrating natural and social...
2 months ago
Wildlife Photographic Journals

Exploring Extremadura: Day 3 pm - An Evening on the Tiles - After waking from the afternoon siesta, I stepped out of the darkness into the brilliant sunshine bathing the small balcony of my room. It did not look pro...
2 months ago
Thorne & Hatfield Moors Conservation News

Hidden landscapes, Dynamic habitats & Sphagnum? - Further to the previous blog post inviting people to the public presentations at our Annual Meeting on Friday 6 April, the Executive are pleased to provide...
3 months ago
Ron Bury's Wildlife

Helping ‘The Reds Return’ to the Highlands - Red squirrel © Peter Cairns Trees for Life has launched an appeal to raise £22,000 to ensure a better future for red squirrels in the Highlands of Scotland...
3 months ago
Yorkie's Wildlife Photos

An afternoon with a Kingfisher -
3 months ago
Entomacrographic

Pure gold - I often meet up with Paul Darby ex Wiltshire Wildlife Trust for a pint and a bag of twiglets and inevitably our conversation turns to wildlife. Recently he...
3 months ago
Frank Anderson Photography

Beast from the East comes to the North East - They named it ‘The Beast from the East’, the cold and snowy weather that hit the country last week. Most people seemed content with staying in out of th...
3 months ago
The Street Tree

Winter-flowering Cherry – the Great Deceiver - You may have noticed – possibly with some alarm – the delicate, yet persistent blooms of the winter-flowering Cherry which have been flowering for months n...
3 months ago
BTO Cymru

Dates for your diary - Dates for your diary - Dyddiadau i'ch dyddiadur Once again this spring we are planning on holding some member and volunteer days at various venues around Wa...
3 months ago
The Wild West!

Back on the Wight (Day 2) - Day 2 back on the Isle of Wight: after breakfast I drove to the chalk downs above Mottistone to meet up with an old (young) friend, George Greiff. Over the...
3 months ago
The Wildlifewriter

Catching the Worm - *Migration Forecasts 2018, #1* *Yep – it's that time of year again....* The end of February is the period when some early birds are already feeling the...
3 months ago
Natural Born Blogger

Knott End-on-Sea - Great to finally catch up with the over-wintering Twite at Knott End. During the past few years they’ve become a regular feature favouring the area adjacen...
3 months ago
Rain Geese and Selkies

The Gift of Trees - Televåg, Norway A cold but sunny morning in mid-May and the village of Televåg seems exceptionally tranquil. A young woman wearing sunglasses guides a pu...
4 months ago
Northern Ireland Black-headed Gull Colour-ringing Project

Finding out more about Hoodies - In an attempt to find out more about Hooded Crows (love them or hate them......we don’t know a lot about their movements and even less about their populat...
4 months ago
A.W.Birder: Always on the lookout for fine birds...

2017 A Big Work Year! - Working for Birding Ecotours I get the opportunity to travel around the world and show people some amazing birds, and for that I am very lucky, and truly g...
4 months ago
Dawn Monrose Nature Photography

Tales from the Riverbank - The thin January light seeps through Winter’s brown stems, warming the muddy tones faintly golden. The cold grips my limbs despite three layers, as I sit f...
4 months ago
In a Beekeepers Garden

MSF Mission - Two weeks ago I received my mission which was to Kirkuk in Iraq it would have been for 6 months and I was really looking forward to it but half way through...
4 months ago
Wisdom of a Wazzock

More Jan - Meanders Stubbing Lane: there appear to be at least four roads of that name in addition to our Worksop one: Sheffield, Halifax, Skipton and Sowerby Bridge....
4 months ago
The Wild Photographer

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

Wildlife Camera Trap - Hedgehog Time in Our Garden -
5 months ago
The Natural Stone

7 weeks in Costa Blanca - In March 2017 we decided we would like to give up regular work. To do this we would need to rent out the house to provide an income and live somewhere chea...
5 months ago
Bug Mad Girl

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

A toast to National Robin Day - Celebrating our Songbirds on National Robin Day.
5 months ago
Springhill Lane Wildlife

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

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

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

- I've just watched the film Lawrence of Arabia (1962) for the first time. It's taken me a week to watch it on Youtube. Half an hour an evening for seven days....
6 months ago
Donegal Wildlife

Another update! - On 14th September 2014, I posted about a Stigmella perpygmaeella leaf mine on Hawthorn with a hymenopteran parasite in the mine. I couldn't get any further...
6 months ago
Notes of Nature

Wordless Wednesday: Some Lanterns at Longleat Festival of Light 2017 -
6 months ago
From the muddy banks of the Dee....

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

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

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

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

Otter-ly Brilliant! - I must have spent so much time out in the Broads lately that Otters now think I am part of the landscape! Let me explain how, for a brief moment today, I b...
7 months ago
Druridge Diary

Seawatching - The weather forecast today was for strong northerlies, become lighter as the day went on - which meant it could be good for seawatching. The wind was out o...
7 months ago
A Small Field Called Ellers Meadow

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

Ural Owl, Czech Republic. - I am a big fan of owls, any owls from any wherein the world. But I think that the Ural owl is just about my favorite owl. These image where taken in the...
8 months ago
Newhaven Wildlife

The end of the survey season at Newhaven's Castle Hill Local Nature Reserve - The dodgy weather during the first half of the week meant that I didn't get out until Thursday lunchtime. There was a decidedly autumnal feel (if it's not...
8 months ago
exploringwildlife.blogspot.co.uk

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

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

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

Saran dan Masukan Agar Blog Bisa Menghasilkan Dollar - World Ranger Blog | Saran dan Masukan Agar Blog Bisa Menghasilkan Dollar - Ada beberapa hal yang wajib atau perlu dilengkapi terlebih dahulu semoga blog ya...
10 months ago
The Curious Naturalist

Wildflower meadow management at Chapel Green, Rocklands - Today villagers got together to carry out the annual cut of Chapel Green wild-flower meadow. Further posts on this wonderful local asset, managed by the c...
10 months ago
Harry's Wildlife

High on Fritillaries - So, in late July I went to the Lake District with my family, and no matter how glorified it is compared with its biological value, Arnside still has good b...
10 months ago
Zoo Volunteer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Olympus 300mm F4 Pro more observations - Well it’s still very much early days for me with the Olympus set up, and I still have a nice warm glow about the system. Thus far my only gripe is the au...
1 year ago
Steve Oakes' Wildlife Photography Blog ~ Latest Updates

Wild Bird Photography by Steve Oakes - 23 May 2017, Macedonia. - My wife and I made our almost annual trip to Macedonia last week. It's always a chance to do some photography which, as you'll probably notice from the r...
1 year ago
flockmentality | Feral goose chasing

This site is archived until further notice -
1 year ago
Outdoors

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

UK resident orca Lulu found contaminated with ‘shocking’ levels of toxic chemical - Last year Lulu, a 20 year old female orca from the UK’s only resident population, was found dead off the Isle of Tiree, after becoming entangled in fishing...
1 year ago
Owls about that then!

Blowing the cobwebs away......... - After spending most of my free time during the winter months making and erecting Barn Owl boxes and barrels I had a very welcome and overdue "owling" sessi...
1 year ago
The Naturephile

The great grey shrike - Back in January there was a report of a great grey shrike at Wicken Fen and I’d never seen one before so I decided to go and have a look. A distant tree ac...
1 year ago
Garden Bird Year

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

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

Jack in-the-box - There was a smattering of sun through the cloud, and spring seemed to be uncoiling itself.
1 year ago
My Nature Notes

Rough hawkbit: the answer lies in the soil - I think it is very easy to get dismissive, jump to a conclusion and move on when you see a flower. I know I do it, I try not to but I still do. With rough ...
1 year ago
An Irish Nature Journal | A Digital Journal of Irish Nature

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The firsts of spring - 20th March As the vernal equinox arrives and the changing of the clocks approaches, it is impossible not to take each seasonal event as a sign. The evidenc...
1 year ago
The Barley Bird-er

Back in the Bay of Biscay - September 2016 - There is not a year that goes by without me taking a trip out on the open water in search of seabirds and cetaceans. This year I chose Biscay, and a late s...
1 year ago
Will's Wildlife

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

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

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

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

Mull Hen Harrier Day 2016 - Mull Hen Harrier Day 2016 Sunday 7th found us braving the very autumnal weather for the second year running on Mull. We were one of 12 national events acr...
1 year ago
Murmuration

Bat Out Of Hell - Image: Jo SinclairA bat evacuated the attic in the blazing light of day. It flew rapidly back and forth, looking uncertain of the way back in, but eventua...
1 year ago
What's Wild in Cornwall

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mobile Sawmill at Buckland Filleigh, Devon - Mobile Sawmill We’re now able to provide customers with locally sawn timber using our Peterson Winch Production Frame mobile sawmill, our goal is to help...
2 years ago
Cath Hodsman British Wildlife Artist

Beetle Gallery (Coleoptera) - British Beetles…British Beetles….British Beetles…..British Beetles…..British Beetles Any Art work may be purchased by emailing Cath on cathhodsman@gmail....
2 years ago
Wild Life

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Neverending Glade - The last two weeks volunteering effort has seen the midweek volunteers back at Hem Heath armed with our bow saws. We’ve been continuing the coppicing work ...
4 years ago
Natural Adventures

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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6 years ago
The Malvern Birder

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Ninjameys

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Seeds for Rewilding

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Not Just Birding

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Roots'n'Shoots

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The Natural World of Wildlife

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