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Bird survey in the local woods
The wood conservation group I belong to does regular bird surveys in the wood. Here are the results from yesterday. Robin, Crow, Wood pigeon, Green Woodpecker, Wren, Great Tit, Raven, Red Kite, Buzzard, Blue tit, Great spotted woodpecker, Long tailed … Continue reading
Posted in birds, nature, outdoors, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Woodland
Tagged Autumn, birds, Buzzard, Citizen science, Long tailed tit, Marsh tit, nature, outdoors, red kite, survey, wildlife, woodpecker, Woods
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Wildlife when I’m asleep
I wrote a comment on Twitter the other day about how I like the trail camera because it shows me what wildlife is about when I’m asleep. Here are some clips taken this week from in and around my garden … Continue reading
Posted in garden, nature, outdoors, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Tagged Autumn, Badgers, Deer, garden, mammals, nature, outdoors, trail camera, wildlife
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Roe deer
Over the last couple of days 8 Roe deer have been in the nearby field. Normally they can be found on their own or a mum with young, but this time of year the females gather together in groups. They … Continue reading
Posted in nature, outdoors, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Tagged Autumn, Deer, mammals, nature, outdoors, Roe deer, ruminating, wildlife
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Wildlife from my window
I had a few hours to spare Tuesday afternoon, so set up a couple of cameras, one looking out the front of the house, the other looking out in to the back garden. Elizabeth Guntrip runs a brilliant hashtag on … Continue reading
Posted in birds, Every child wild, garden, nature, Nature reserve, outdoors, Uncategorized
Tagged Autumn, birds, Blackbird, Blue tit, Every child wild, garden, Great spotted wood[ecker, Jackdaw, nature, outdoors, Sparrow, wildlife from my window
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Red Kites
After years of persecution Red Kite numbers are now increasing and they can be seen all around the Oxfordshire area. They are easily identifiable by their forked tail. I have a number of both Buzzards and Red Kites on my … Continue reading
Posted in birds, nature, outdoors, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Tagged Autumn, birds, Birds of prey, Buzzards, nature, outdoors, red kite, wildlife
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Otmoor RSPB Nature reserve
The popularity of Starling murmurations are huge in the UK. It is an amazing sight to watch and film. Starling murmurations appear on BBC Autumnwatch and also show up in CBBC Newsround. On my local patch we have two Starling … Continue reading
Posted in birds, nature, Nature reserve, outdoors, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Tagged Autumn, birds, geese, murmurations, nature, outdoors, Starlings, wildlife
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Why I go on Badger marches
Over the past couple of years I have been on quite a few Badger marches including Oxford, Birmingham, Wincester, Ross 0n Wye, Witney and today Hereford. The marches are a peaceful way to educated people about Badgers and the badger … Continue reading
Posted in nature, outdoors, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Tagged Badger cull, Badgers, education, nature, save our badgers, stop the cull, wildlife
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#Rantsforchange
Rants for Change is a You Tube channel set up by Emma as a way for people to be heard, a way for people to rant about something they care about for up to 2 minutes. For me it would … Continue reading
Posted in nature, outdoors, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Tagged #Rantsforchange, Dogs, Nature reserve, wildlife
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Guest blog for Wildlife Watch
Wildlife Watch is the junior club of The Wildlife Trust. The Wildlife Trust are great at encouraging kids to getting in to nature with workshops, a magazine, events and recently their Every Child Wild campaign. Wildlife Watch recently asked me … Continue reading
Posted in Every child wild, nature, outdoors, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Tagged blog, Fungi, nature, The Wildlife Trust, wildlife, woodland
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Windy weekend
With the sun hiding behind the clouds and the wind trying its hardest to blow us off our feet, we reached the field where I wanted to take photos of the Rooks from the local Rookery. Although they have been … Continue reading
Posted in birds, nature, outdoors, Wildlife
Tagged Autumn, Badgers, birds, magpies, murmurations, red kite, Starlings, woodpecker
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