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Badger trails
The crops have been harvested and the wild flower meadow cut leaving telltale signs of the badgers foraging paths from over the summer. Badgers will use the same paths for generations. It is not just badgers that weave their way … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Badgers, Blogging, fox, mammals, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography, Woodland
Tagged Autumn, Badger, Buzzard, fieldcraft, fox, H3, Muntjac, nature, Roe deer, trail, trail camera, wildlife
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Pond and other stuff
Over the summer holidays my family built a pond in the corner of the front garden. After replacing a wall with a hazel hedge together with a few hawthorn and honeysuckle last year, we hoped that this would encourage more … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, birds, garden, insects, mammals, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, Ponds, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged beetle, Buzzard, garden, Grey wagtail, H3, Hazel, nature, Nicrophorus vespillo, pond, wildlife, Wildlife photography, wood pigeon
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Trail camera, badgers and darker evenings
It’s getting darker earlier and earlier each evening and it won’t be long before the clocks go back meaning it will be dark not long after I get home from school. I’ll miss seeing the badgers in daylight, but look … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Badgers, Blogging, fox, mammals, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, trail camera, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Tagged Autumn, Badgers, fox, mammals, nature, Oxfordshire, trail camera, wildlife
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Folklore and fungi
While walking through the wood yesterday I came across a Fairy ring. The ring of fungi is caused by the mycelium which moves outwards from the centre. After using up the nutrients, the centre dies and a ring of mushrooms … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Fungi, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, Uncategorized, Wildlife photography, Woodland
Tagged deadman's fingers, EarthBall, Fly Agaric, Fungi, Jelly ear, King Alfred's cakes, mushroom, myths, Scarlet Elf cup, Witches butter, woodland
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BBOWT – Hitchcopse Pit
BBOWT’s Nature Reserve, Hitchcopse Pit, like Dry Sandford Pit was once a quarry. I visited Dry Sandford Pit in March and had planned to go back in the autumn but we ended up at Hitchcopse pit instead. https://appletonwildlifediary.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/bbowt-dry-sandford-pit/ Hitchcopse Pit … Continue reading
Posted in birds, Blogging, Butterfly, insects, nature, Nature reserve, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, Uk nature, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged Bullfinch, Butterfly, comma, dragonfly, evening primrose, Fungi, Heron, Lichen, nature photography, Red admiral butterfly, red kite, small copper, wildlife
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Grey day at Farmoor reservoir
The sky was overcast with smirr – thanks to Robert Macfarlane and his ‘word of the day’ on Twitter for this word. Smirr is fine, drifting rain, so light as to seem mist- or smoke-like, but which coats evenly & … Continue reading
Posted in birds, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged British wildlife, dragonfly, Farmoor reservoir, geese, House martin, Leucistic coot, nature, photography, Smirr, Wheatear, wildlife, Word of the day
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Importance of hedgerows
On the Breakfast news this morning there was an article about a group of people who were unhappy that their local council has plans to demolish a large hedgerow to enable a road to be widened in the lead up … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, birds, hedgerows, insects, mammals, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, Uk nature, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged acorn, Blackberry, Blogging, breakfast news, Hazelnut, hedgerow, photography, wildlife
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