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- If you go down to the woods today – June 2018
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- Day 16 of 30 days Wild – 30 seconds
- Day 15 of 30 Days Wild – Garden at night
- Day 14 of 30 Days Wild – insects
- Day 13 of 30 Days Wild – stalking lizards
- Day 12 of 30 Days Wild – Different perspective
- Day 11 of 30 Days Wild – helping hand
- Day 10 of 30 days Wild – learning about badger setts
- Day 9 of 30 Days Wild – update on rescued seal
- Day 8 of 30 Days Wild – Visit a nature reserve
- Day 7 of 30 days Wild – Trip down the river
- Day 6 of 30 Days Wild – Visit a bird hide
- Day 5 – 30 days Wild – Feed the ducks
- Day 4 – 30 days Wild – Beach clean
- 30 Days Wild – Day 3 Kayaking
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- 30 Days Wild – Day 1- Food you can forage
- Appleton Wildlife Diary is 5 years old today
- Explosion of insects
- Growing badger cubs
- Owls
- If you go down to the woods today – May 2018
- First glimpse of 2018 badger cubs
- Snares and badgers
- Billy badger cub
- First Cuckoo
- South West Coast Path
- 4 trail cams, 6 nights, 6 badgers
- If you go down to the woods today – April
- Badger watching in comfort
- Barn owl hunting
- Badger skull
- Halo around the moon
- Work Experience At CEH
- Winter again
- Starlings
- Is Spring finally here?
- Snow sculptures and footprints
- Sub Zero
- If you go down to the woods today – February
- Thermal Imaging Camera
- National Nest Box Week
- Badgers in February
- Visit to London
- 2 minute wood clean
- Best Big Garden Bird Watch so far
- Sparrow Roost
- Hide in the snow
- Afterschool
- Starling murmurations at Otmoor
- Bullfinches
- If you go down to the woods today… January
- Durlston, Dorset
- My local patch over Christmas week
- Question about Roe deer
- Badger identification
- Snowday
- Snowy local patch
- Interview with an author – Papiliones by Jonathan Bradley
- Attachment issues
- Quick visit to Farmoor reservoir
- Goodbye Fantastic Mrs Fox
- Badgers are ingenious
- Slow down for badgers
- Secrets of sound
- Young wildlife ambassadors panel
- Comparing trail cameras – Night time
- Ivy at the end of October
- York and a Peregrine falcon
- The Inner Life of Animals by Peter Wohlleben
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Tag Archives: Buzzard
My local patch over Christmas week
The week since Christmas has been busy, together with patches of heavy rain, meaning I haven’t taken as many photos as I could have. I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for their support over the past year. … Continue reading
Posted in birds, Fungi, Happy New Year, nature, Oxfordshire, photography, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography, winter, Woodland
Tagged Blogging, Bluebells, Buzzard, Environment, Fungi, grey squirrel, nature, red kite, Sunset, wildlife, winter, woodland
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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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H3 – found her again
A quick break from my South African trip blogs to report that I have positively spotted my local Buzzard H3 again. I’ve had times when I think I have seen her, but it’s been since October 2016 since I have … Continue reading
Posted in birds, nature, Oxfordshire, photography, Uk nature, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged birds, Birds of prey, BTO, Buzzard, H3, Local patch, wildlife, Wildlife photography
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Day 16 – Early evening walk and badgers
It’s Friday, the last day of Springwatch Unsprung and a must because the brilliant Dara, fellow blogger and wildlife enthusiast is on. Make sure you check out his blog here https://youngfermanaghnaturalist.com/ By 7.30pm the air was slightly cooler and with no … Continue reading
Posted in 30 Days Wild, Badgers, Blogging, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography, Woodland
Tagged 30 Days Wild, Badgers, Blogging, Buzzard, Environment, Goldfinch, kestrel, nature, photography, Stream, wildlife, Woods
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30 Days Wild – Day 2
Cloud watching The sky is ever changing, when I woke this morning the sky was blue with white wispy clouds and trails from aeroplanes called contrails. A cloud is a large collection of very tiny droplets of water or ice … Continue reading
Posted in 30 Days Wild, Blogging, garden, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, Uncategorized, Weather
Tagged 30 Days Wild, Blogging, Buzzard, cirrus cloud, clouds, Environment, images, nature, photography, thermals, Weather, wildlife
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Hawthorn
After my previous blog on the benefits of Ivy, I started to look at other plants on my local patch and how they supported the mammals, birds and insects. The first plant that caught my eye is the Hawthorn tree … Continue reading
Posted in Badgers, birds, insects, mammals, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, Rural life, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged Autumn, Buzzard, Fungi, Giant puffball, H3, Hawthorn, Long tailed tit, nature, photography, red kite, Yellowhammer
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