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- 30 Days Wild – Day 7 – Butterflies
- 30 Days Wild – Day 5 – badger identification
- 30 Days Wild – Day 4 – Little things
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- 30 Days Wild – Day 2 – Water
- 30 Days Wild – End of No Mow May
- Competition time: Kennedy Wild Bird Food Giveaway
- Wildlife Blogging
- Garden Wildlife – Part 20 Wood Mouse
- Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus)
- Garden Wildlife – Part 19 No Mow May
- Garden Wildlife – Part 18 Hedgehogs
- Garden Wildlife Part 17 Blackbirds
- Garden Wildlife – Part 16 Bank voles
- Earth Live Lessons hosted by Lizzie Daly
- Wild Days – Lessons and resources.
- Garden Wildlife – Part 15 Red kites
- Garden Wildlife – Part 14 The swallows are back.
- Garden Wildlife – Part 13 Kestrels
- Garden wildlife – Part 12 past couple of weeks
- Garden Wildlife – Part 11 Wildflowers
- Garden Wildlife – Part 10 Badger faces and tails
- Garden Wildlife – Part 9 Bluebells
- Garden Wildlife – Part 8 Angle shades pupa
- Garden Wildlife – Part 7 View from the windows
- Garden wildlife – Part 6 Foxes
- Garden Wildlife- Part 5 Ladybirds
- Garden Wildlife – Part 4 Jackdaws
- Garden wildlife – Part 3 Long tailed tit
- Garden wildlife – Part 2 Peacock butterfly
- Garden wildlife – Part 1 Blue tit
- School closures
- Young Mammal Photographer of the Year
- Tracks and signs workshop
- Late afternoon Barn owls
- Barn Owl Pellets
- Badger Rescue Afternoon
- A year of Climate striking
- Get your boots on! — Bird Therapy
- Big Garden Bird Watch 2020
- Review of wildlife hide – Stealth Gear Two Man Photography Chair Hide
- Oxford’s first climate strike of 2020
- Busy garden
- Slavonian grebe
- 2019 Round up and HNY
- Starling murmurations Brighton pier
- HS2 – Stand for the trees
- Starling murmurations
- Pit 60 Standlake
- Leaf litter
- Roost at sunset
- Birdsy Camera
- Harvest mice
- Autumn Thrushes
- Autumn Colours at Wytham Woods
- Crazy few days
- Fallow deer behaviour
- Red Rebels In Oxford
- Competition Time
- Winter Sleep – Book review
- Conkers
- Climate Strike Oxford September 2019
- Vaccinate Not Exterminate
- Dolphins at Berry Head
- Wistman’s Wood – Devon
- Visit to RSPCA Southridge
- Second Butterfly count
- Big Butterfly Count number one
- Ladybirds and their 4 stages
- Flying Ant day
- Meles Meles exhibition
- Wild Flower Meadow
- Get Your Boots On – Book Launch
- Letters from Young Naturalists
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Monthly Archives: April 2017
Neighbourhood mammals
Back to school this week so I’ve not been able to get out much with my camera. I heard a rustling amongst the dead leaves, expecting it to be a blackbird searching for food, I was surprised to see a … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, garden, Hedgehogs, mammals, nature, Oxfordshire, Rat, science, trail camera, Uncategorized, Wildflowers
Tagged blog, Blogging, Bristol, Environment, fox, garden, hedgehog, images, nature, photography, Rat, trail camera, wildlife, Wildlife photography, Wood mouse
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Easter Holidays
It’s the last day of the Easter holidays. I’ve not been too far off my local patch as my sister is revising for her GCSE’s, but we did have a trip out to Westonbirt Arboretum. Not much wildlife but it … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Badgers, Blogging, garden, Hedgehogs, mammals, nature, Oxfordshire, photography, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged Badgers, Blogging, Chaffinch, Environment, garden, Hare, hedgehog, housing development, nature, photography, trail camera, TV, Westonbirt Arboretum
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Badger identification
Identifying my local badgers can be difficult. After spending so much time with them and watching so much footage of them from the trail cameras, I can nearly always work who is who. With the adults it is not only … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Badgers, Blogging, mammals, nature, outdoors, photography, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged Badger, badger cub, Blogging, Environment, Identification, nature, wildlife, Wildlife photography
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Water Vole Day
Water Voles (Arvicola amphibius) are native to the UK and have been protected since 1981 by the Wildlife and Countryside act. There has been a massive decline in Water Vole numbers since 1900 and by 1990 we had lost 90% … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, mammals, nature, outdoors, photography, River, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged Blogging, Celandine, Environment, Gloucestershire, images, mammal, nature, photography, river bank, Water vole, wildlife
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Spring mammals
I’ve spent a lot of time each evening with the Roe deer over the past week. As the sun sets it is such an amazing sight to watch as each ray casts a golden light through what will become a … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Blogging, mammals, nature, Oxfordshire, photography, Rural life, Uk nature, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged Blogging, Environment, Hares, images, nature, photography, Roe deer, Spring, Sunset, wildlife, Wildlife photography
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Little owl
The Little owl (Athene noctua) was introduced to the UK by Col. E.G.B.Meade-Waldo in Kent, in 1874 and by the 4th Lord Lilford in Northamptonshire around 1889. Little owls are the smallest owl in Britain and are about the size of … Continue reading
Posted in birds, Blogging, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged birds, Blogging, Environment, images, Little owl, nature, owl, photography, Sunset, wildlife, Wildlife photography
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