We’ve had a couple of frosts this month, nothing serious, just a dip closer to zero* rather than below. Personally, I love cold and frosty nights and days, from the crisp blue skies to the clear air to the way the frost sparkles and glitters in the sun. Not forgetting the fact that if it’s [...]
Posts Tagged ‘wildlife’
6 Aug
Butterfly, butterfly, whence do you come?
I confess I am no naturalist, let alone a lepidopterist, so all I was able to do when I saw this beauty was ooh and aah and take a photo, in the hopes that someone out there will be able to put a name to it:
24 May
Enjoying the sunshine
Forgive the picture-heavy post. I don’t seem to have woken up yet. Uploading photos from yesterday seems like the most sensible route to take, if a degree of coherence is ……. nope, can’t finish the sentence. Need more coffee!
4 Feb
Fox!
I have just seen a small fox slinking away from the chicken enclosures. Naturally, the second I saw it I ran outside into what’s left of the snow (luckily I had my boots on and wasn’t just in my socks!) and am relieved to report that All Is Well. I don’t know if the chickens [...]
24 Jan
RSPB Birdwatch 2009
Earlier today, I took part in the RSPB Birdwatch and had a fantastic time doing so. As a kid, I found birds and birdwatching to be extremely dull so never learnt anything about even the most common of our British garden birds, let alone anything more exotic. That is something I have come to regret [...]
16 Dec
Getting to know the neighbours
Ever since I moved the pigs into their field, there’s been an abundance of wildlife, mainly birds, taking advantage of the freshly turned up earth and lashings of manure to secure themselves a snack or two. As autumn turned to winter, the birds have descended en masse and are now so confident around me that [...]
14 Dec
Elephants ‘die earlier in zoos’
The other day we had a report “revealing” that dogs experience jealousy – and now there’s a report which demonstrates that captive elephants have a shorter life span than their cousins in the wild: A new study comparing wild, captive and working elephants has found that living in zoos can significantly shorten the animals’ lives. [...]
16 Oct
Hope for red squirrels?
Some people like to scare themselves silly with stories from the BBC news website about man-eating spiders the size of buildings. I find cute and cuddly stuff. Just for the record. Such as this story which talks about their being hope for the survival of our native red squirrel: Scientists have found that some red [...]
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