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- Garden Wildlife – Part 20 Wood Mouse
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- 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.
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- Garden Wildlife – Part 10 Badger faces and tails
- Garden Wildlife – Part 9 Bluebells
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- 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
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- A year of Climate striking
- Get your boots on! — Bird Therapy
- Big Garden Bird Watch 2020
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- Oxford’s first climate strike of 2020
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- 2019 Round up and HNY
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- Winter Sleep – Book review
- Conkers
- Climate Strike Oxford September 2019
- Vaccinate Not Exterminate
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- Visit to RSPCA Southridge
- Second Butterfly count
- Big Butterfly Count number one
- Ladybirds and their 4 stages
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- Meles Meles exhibition
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30 Days Wild – Day 2 – Water
With all dry weather recently many birds and animals are struggling to find fresh water. One easy way to help them is to put a dish of water out in your garden. It doesn’t have to be anything special just … Continue reading
Posted in 30 Days Wild, Badgers, birds, Blogging, Environment, garden, Local patch, mammals, nature, photography, Stay Wild, trail camera, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged 30 Days Wild, Badger, Bushnell, garden, Great spotted woodpecker, Muntjac, nature, pond, trail camera, water, wildlife
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30 Days Wild – End of No Mow May
Today starts another 30 Days Wild run by The Wildlife Trust. I’ve taken part in this for a number of years now, but if you haven’t heard of it before you can find more details by clicking HERE During May … Continue reading
Posted in 30 Days Wild, Environment, garden, Get Your Boots On, insects, Local patch, nature, outdoors, photography, Stay Wild, Uncategorized, Wildflowers, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged 30 Days Wild, ants, Blogging, Buttercup, every flower counts, garden, hoverfly, nature, nature photography, oxeye daisy, Plantlife, selfheal, Wildflowers, wildlife, Wildlife photography
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Wildlife Blogging
7 years ago this week I started to blog about the wildlife in my garden and on my local patch. I think over the past couple of months, wildlife and nature close to home has been an important part of … Continue reading
Posted in Badgers, Birdfair, birds, Blogging, Books, Environment, fox, garden, Get Your Boots On, Local patch, mammals, nature, Nature Books, outdoors, photography, Stay at home, Stay Wild, Uk nature, Uncategorized, Wildflowers, Wildlife, wildlife books, Wildlife photography
Tagged A focus on nature, Blogging, Blue tit, Books, Brighton, climate action, Climate strike, education, Environment, fox, Get Your Boots On, Hare, ladybird, Muntjac, nature, nature photography, outdoors, Roe deer, RSPCA, Stay Wild, young adult books, Young naturalists
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Garden Wildlife Part 17 Blackbirds
For a while I’ve been using a Birdsy camera to film the wildlife and in particular the birds in my garden. Last weekend I moved it around again, this time focusing it on the birdbath in the back garden. It … Continue reading
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Tagged birdbath, birds, Birdsy, Blackbird, garden, Get Your Boots On, nature, RSPB, wildlife
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Earth Live Lessons hosted by Lizzie Daly
Since the restrictions have begun Lizzie Daly has been hosting Earth Live lessons on her YouTube Channel Lizzie Daly Wildlife TV The lessons are on every day for 20 minutes and come from a wide range of scientists, filmmakers, and conservationists. … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Blogging, Books, Environment, garden, Get Your Boots On, nature, Nature Books, photography, Stay at home, Stay Wild, Uncategorized, Wildlife, wildlife books, Wildlife photography
Tagged Animals, Blogging, Books, Earth Live Lessons, education, Environment, Get Your Boots On, Lizzie Daly, nature, Nature Table, non fiction, photography, questions, skulls, wildlife, Wildlife photography, young adult books
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Garden Wildlife – Part 15 Red kites
We have a number of Red kites on my local patch but when the fields are being ploughed like they have been over the past few days lots of red kites come in from miles around. Today, like yesterday we’ve … Continue reading
Posted in birds, Blogging, garden, Local patch, Oxfordshire, Stay at home, Stay Wild, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged Blogging, garden, Local patch, red kite, Stay Wild
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Garden Wildlife – Part 10 Badger faces and tails
I quite often get asked how I individually identify my local badgers. It isn’t the easiest thing especially this time of year as I haven’t seen them as much over the winter and new wounds and marks appear. I’ve had … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Badgers, fox, Local patch, mammals, outdoors, Oxfordshire, Stay Wild, trail camera, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged Badgers, fox, lockdown, Muntjac, nature, trail camera, wildlife
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Garden wildlife – Part 2 Peacock butterfly
The temperature hit 13 degrees celsius afternoon and a few butterflies were out and about. Firstly, a Brimstone flew over the garden. Around 3pm a Comma butterfly fluttered around but didn’t settle, then in floated this Peacock butterfly, which settled … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Blogging, Butterfly, Environment, garden, Get Your Boots On, Local patch, nature, Nature Books, outdoors, photography, Stay Wild, Uk nature, Uncategorized, Wildlife, wildlife books, Wildlife photography
Tagged Books, Butterfly, education, garden, garden wildlife, nature, nature photography, peacock butterfly, self isolation, wildlife, wildlife books, Wildlife photography
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Garden wildlife – Part 1 Blue tit
Over the next few days, weeks or at least until I run out of species or find something else to do, I’m going to focus on one species, from my garden, each day to encourage people to look closer at … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, birds, Birdsy, Blogging, Books, Environment, garden, Get Your Boots On, Local patch, nature, outdoors, photography, Stay Wild, Uncategorized, Wildlife, wildlife books, Wildlife photography
Tagged bird nest, birds, Birdsy, Blogging, Blue tit, Books, education, Environment, nature, nature photography, photography, self isolation, wildlife, wildlife books
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School closures
I found out today that along with all the other schools in the country, the college I attend will be closed on Monday for the foreseeable future. It’s such a shame, after not really enjoying school, I’m having a great … Continue reading
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Tagged Blogging, Books, Covid-19, Environment, garden, nature, outdoors from indoors, photography, school closure, wildlife, wildlife from my window, wren
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