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Monthly Archives: January 2018
2 minute wood clean
There is a lot of publicity about litter and plastic waste at the moment. Blue Planet highlighted the problems of plastic and ghost nets floating in the ocean, but plastic can also be an eyesore and cause danger to wildlife on … Continue reading
Posted in Local patch, outdoors, Oxfordshire, plastic waste, Uncategorized
Tagged Environment, Local patch, plastic waste
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Best Big Garden Bird Watch so far
The Big Garden Bird Watch 2018 turned out to be the best one I’ve done so far. Despite drizzling with rain to start with, there were still plenty of birds around. Here’s my list of the birds that actually landed … Continue reading
Posted in birds, Blogging, Citizen science, garden, nature, Oxfordshire, photography, Uncategorized, Wildlife photography
Tagged Big Garden Bird watch, Blackbird, Blue tit, Chaffinch, Coal tit, collared dove, Dunnock, Environment, House Sparrow, Long tailed tit, red kite, Robin, wood pigeon, woodpecker
8 Comments
Sparrow Roost
The House sparrow number in my garden have been steadily growing over the past couple of years. Every evening about 12 of them roost in a laurel tree in my garden. I thought I would do something different and record … Continue reading
Posted in birds, nature, Oxfordshire, photography, Uncategorized, Wildlife, winter
Tagged birds, Environment, House Sparrow, Roost, Sound recording, wildlife, winter
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Hide in the snow
Such a surprise this morning to wake up and find the ground covered in a thin layer of snow. Within a few minutes of entering the wood I spotted a fox trotting along the hedgerow. I stopped and set … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, fox, Fungi, mammals, nature, Oxfordshire, photography, Rat, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography, Woodland
Tagged Blogging, Chaffinch, Environment, footprints, fox, Fungi, hide, Long tailed tit, nature, pigeon, Rat, wildlife, Wildlife photography, woodland
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Afterschool
It’s nearly a month since Winter Solstice and it is definitely more noticeable that the sun is setting later. This time last month the sun was setting around 3.45pm. Today it set at roughly 4.30pm. This has meant that I … Continue reading
Posted in birds, Blogging, Citizen science, Fungi, nature, Oxfordshire, photography, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography, winter, Woodland
Tagged BBC Wildlife magazine, Big Garden Bird watch, Blogging, Dunnock, Environment, Fieldfares, Fungi, Local patch, Sunset, wildlife, Wildlife photography, winter
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Starling murmurations at Otmoor
It was 3.15pm, we had been walking around Otmoor for the past two hours. The weather was cold and windy, the ground a mixture of ice and squelching mud. Even with 3 pairs of socks on each step I took … Continue reading
Posted in birds, Citizen science, nature, Nature reserve, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, RSPB, Uk nature, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography, winter
Tagged amazing nature, birds, Citizen science, nature, Otmoor, Oxfordshire, starling murmuration, Starlings, wildlife, Wildlife photography, winter
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Bullfinches
Over the past couple of years I’ve noticed an increase in the number of Bullfinches on my local patch. I’m not sure whether there are actually more or whether I just notice them more often because UK Bullfinch populations have … Continue reading
Posted in birds, nature, Oxfordshire, photography, Uncategorized, winter, Woodland
Tagged birds, brambles, Bullfinch, nature, wildlife, winter, woodland
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