-
Recent posts
- Visit to RSPCA Southridge
- Second Butterfly count
- Big Butterfly Count number one
- Ladybirds and their 4 stages
- Flying Ant day
- Meles Meles exhibition
- Wild Flower Meadow
- Get Your Boots On – Book Launch
- Letters from Young Naturalists
- Day 4 – 30 Days Wild, discovery
- Day 3 – 30 Days Wild, Lesser Stag beetle
- Day 2 – 30 Days Wild, Roe deer kids
- Day 1 – 30 Days Wild, garden
- Ermine moth caterpillar webs
- Say No to the Mow in May
- Get Your Boots On
- First sighting of 2019 Badger Cubs
- Churchyard Wildlife
- Swallows are back
- Small mammal survey in woodland
- Climate Strike April 2019
- Muntjac deer
- Wildflower Meadow
- Trail camera – badgers and a polecat
- Climate Strike March 2019
- Hedgerows
- What is Wildlife blogging?
- Layers of bird song
- Youth Strike 4 Climate
- Raven
- Snow day 2019
- Finding time for wildlife
- Un Science An Animal
- Big Garden Bird Watch 2019
- It’ll soon be the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2019
- Get Your Boots On
- Roe deer
- Rose-coloured Starling
- Busy first day 2019
- Last photos of 2018
- Hazel Hill Wood
- Lost Words evening for Sobell House
- How often does a badger change its bed?
- Deer scrapes
- Badger Bones
- UK Blog Awards: Nature and Wildlife
- Badger Trust Symposium 2018
- Autumn colours
- Fallow deer rescue
- Book review – Bobby the brown long- eared bat
- Pocket Pals App – Youth ambassador
- October Starlings
- Problem solving Woodpecker
- Small mammal survey 2018
- The Lost Words – in photos
- AFON – The People’s Walk for Wildlife
- Autumn mornings and evenings
- Snow Geese
- Wordless Wednesday
- The People’s Walk For Wildlife
- The geese return.
- Squares in the field
- Interesting morning at O.U.M.N.H
- Snorkelling at Bembridge
- Rockpooling – Isle of Wight
- Glow worms
- Snuffling on through
- Big Butterfly Count – wildflower meadow
- Big Butterfly Count 2018 – Garden
- Badger cub rescue
- Guided butterfly walk
- Badgers
- Day 30 of 30 Days Wild – Roundup
- Day 28 of 30 Days Wild – Foxes
- Day 27 of 30 Days Wild – Strawberry moon
- Follow Appleton Wildlife Diary by Alex White on WordPress.com
Contact me
appletonwildlifediary@gmail.com
Search here
Follow me on Twitter
My TweetsCategories
Social media
Archives
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
Youth Ambassador Pocket Pals App
Highly commended by BBC Wildlife Magazine
Top Posts & Pages
- About
- Day 22 - How many flowers in an acre
- Badger cam
- A Barn owl and Storm Doris
- State of Nature in Oxfordshire 2017
- Comparing trail cameras - Night time
- Badger watching at Wytham Woods.
- Interview with an author - Papiliones by Jonathan Bradley
- Look under a stone or log - Day 7
- Acorn vs Bushnell trail camera
Meta
Category Archives: winter
Snow day 2019
Yesterday we had a snowday. School was cancelled, mainly because my school is on a hill and the buses are unable to get up the hill when it snows. Getting out in the snow it was interesting to see which … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Badgers, birds, Blogging, Environment, Local patch, mammals, nature, Oxfordshire, photography, Uncategorized, Wildlife photography, winter
Tagged Dunnock, footprints, husky, nature, red kite, Robin, snow, sunrise, trails, wildlife, winter
2 Comments
Finding time for wildlife
Going through primary school and the lower years of secondary school I always found it really easy to find time to watch wildlife. Actually I didn’t ‘make’ time, the time was just there because I didn’t have any other pressures. … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Badgers, Blogging, fox, garden, mammals, nature, outdoors, photography, trail camera, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography, winter
Tagged Badger, exams, fox, garden wildlife, mammals, nature, Oxfordshire, pond, time management, trail camera, wildlife, Wildlife photography, winter
12 Comments
Sub Zero
With the ‘Beast from the East’ in full swing, and temperatures hitting well below 0, the garden is packed with birds looking for shelter and a easy meal. Looking out over the garden I can see 5 robins forgetting to … Continue reading
Posted in Badgers, birds, garden, Local patch, Oxfordshire, Ponds, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography, winter
Tagged Badgers, birds, Blackbird, fieldfare, pond, Reed bunting, Robin, snow, wildlife
1 Comment
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
3 Comments
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
7 Comments
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
20 Comments
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
3 Comments
