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Dragonflies
The Ruddy darter dragonfly is one of the most common dragonflies. You can tell it apart from the common darter by its black legs and club shaped abdomen Get Your Boots On available at Amazon
Posted in Animals, Blogging, Books, Environment, Get Your Boots On, Local patch, nature, Nature Books, outdoors, Oxfordshire, Ponds, Wildlife
Tagged dragonfly, Ruddy Darter, wildlife
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Water for wildlife
Back on 17th June I wrote a post about putting water out for wildlife. After the last month of very little rain, it is even more important Doesn’t have to be anything special, just as long as it isn’t too … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Blogging, Environment, garden, Get Your Boots On, Local patch, mammals, Weather
Tagged Deer, Drought, garden, nature, rain, water for wildlife, wildlife
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Food Supply July
‘No Mow May’, turned in to ‘Let it bloom June’, it’s now ‘Food supply July’ . Each year we stop mowing our small front garden for a few months over the summer, starting in May. This year the sparrows have … Continue reading
Posted in birds, garden, Get Your Boots On, Local patch, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, Stay Wild, Wildlife, wildlife books
Tagged birds, Blogging, Get Your Boots On, Green finch, nature, outdoors, Sparrow, wildlife
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Day 19 – 30 Days Wild – Rainbow
Amazing rainbow over the garden this evening
Posted in 30 Days Wild, Local patch, outdoors, Oxfordshire, Weather
Tagged 30 Days Wild, nature, Rainbow, Weather
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Day 17 – 30 Days Wild – Water for wildlife
With the past few days of very hot weather putting a dish of water out for wildlife can be a life saver
Posted in 30 Days Wild, Animals, Badgers, Books, Environment, garden, Get Your Boots On, Local patch, outdoors, Oxfordshire, trail camera, Uncategorized, Wildlife, wildlife books
Tagged 30 Days Wild, Badgers, garden, Get Your Boots On, nature, pond, water, wildlife
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Day 16 – 30 Days Wild – Butterflies
The recent warm weather as meant the bramble hedge close to my house is covered in butterflies
Posted in 30 Days Wild, Animals, Butterfly, Environment, Get Your Boots On, hedgerows, Local patch, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, Wildflowers, Wildlife, wildlife books
Tagged 30 Days Wild, brambles, Butterfly, Get Your Boots On, nature, painted lady, Small tortoiseshell, wildlife
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Day 12 – 30 Days Wild – Clouds
Clouds
Posted in 30 Days Wild, Local patch, outdoors, Oxfordshire, Uncategorized
Tagged clouds, nature, Weather
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Day 11 – 30 Days Wild – close up
Catching up with posting on 30 Days Wild Taking a closer look
Posted in 30 Days Wild, Blogging, Books, Environment, Get Your Boots On, Local patch, nature
Tagged Local patch, nature, outdoors, wildlife, Wildlife photography
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Day 10 – 30 Days Wild – Pied wagtail fledglings
Great to watch a couple of Pied wagtail fledglings hopping from roof top to roof top being fed One of the fledglings was getting pretty hot sat in the sun and was ‘gular fluttering’ which is a bird’s version of … Continue reading
Posted in 30 Days Wild, Animals, birds, Blogging, Books, Environment, garden, Get Your Boots On, Local patch, nature, Nature Books, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, Uncategorized, Wildlife, wildlife books, Wildlife photography
Tagged birds, Blogging, garden, nature, outdoors, Pied Wagtail, wildlife, Wildlife photography
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Day 9 – 30 days Wild- Light
Light through the leaves
Posted in 30 Days Wild, Blogging, Local patch, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire
Tagged nature, outdoors, phone photography, trees, wildlife
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