Monthly Archives: January 2018

2 minute wood clean

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Alex White - Appletonwild

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 | 1 Comment

Best Big Garden Bird Watch so far

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Alex White - Appletonwild

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

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Alex White - Appletonwild

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 | 3 Comments

Hide in the snow

Posted on January 21, 2018 by Alex White - Appletonwild

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 | 8 Comments

Afterschool

Posted on January 17, 2018 by Alex White - Appletonwild

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 | 7 Comments

Starling murmurations at Otmoor

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Alex White - Appletonwild

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 | 20 Comments

Bullfinches

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Alex White - Appletonwild

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 | 3 Comments

If you go down to the woods today… January

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Alex White - Appletonwild

January’s ‘If you go down to the woods today’…… in just over 50 words. If you go down to the woods today listen to the ice crunch or the mud squelch underfoot. Look through the bare branches as zephyrs of … Continue reading →

Posted in birds, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Woodland | Tagged Bluebells, Environment, If you go down to the woods today, Long tailed tit, nature, Treecreeper, wildlife, Wildlife photography, woodland | 2 Comments

Durlston, Dorset

Posted on January 2, 2018 by Alex White - Appletonwild

With wind bowing blowing sheets of rain on my face and the sound of waves crashing against the cliff face I stood at Durlston Head looking out to sea trying to spot dolphins. Unfortunately there were no Dolphins to be … Continue reading →