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- 30 Days Wild – Day 7 – Butterflies
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- 30 Days Wild – End of No Mow May
- Competition time: Kennedy Wild Bird Food Giveaway
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- Garden Wildlife – Part 20 Wood Mouse
- Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus)
- Garden Wildlife – Part 19 No Mow May
- Garden Wildlife – Part 18 Hedgehogs
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- Garden Wildlife – Part 16 Bank voles
- 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.
- Garden Wildlife – Part 13 Kestrels
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- Garden Wildlife – Part 11 Wildflowers
- Garden Wildlife – Part 10 Badger faces and tails
- Garden Wildlife – Part 9 Bluebells
- Garden Wildlife – Part 8 Angle shades pupa
- Garden Wildlife – Part 7 View from the windows
- 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
- Review of wildlife hide – Stealth Gear Two Man Photography Chair Hide
- Oxford’s first climate strike of 2020
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- 2019 Round up and HNY
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- Autumn Colours at Wytham Woods
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- Winter Sleep – Book review
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- Climate Strike Oxford September 2019
- Vaccinate Not Exterminate
- Dolphins at Berry Head
- Wistman’s Wood – Devon
- 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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2019 Round up and HNY
I’ll start with the highlight of 2019. The publishing of Get Your Boots On. An idea that had been in my head since 2016 and after years of writing, and then months of editing by the amazing Dived Up Publishing … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Badgers, birds, Blogging, Books, Climate strike, Environment, Every child wild, fox, garden, Get Your Boots On, Happy New Year, hedgerows, insects, Local patch, mammals, nature, Nature Books, Nature reserve, outdoors, photography, Stay Wild, trail camera, Uncategorized, Wildflowers, Wildlife, wildlife books, Wildlife photography, Wildlife Rescue
Tagged 2020, A focus on nature, Animals, Badger, Birdfair, Birdsy, Blogging, Books, education, Environment, Happy New Year, Harvest mouse, images, nature, Nature Books, nature photography, photography, Reading, Rose-coloured Starling, starling murmuration, wildlife, wildlife books, Wildlife photography, wildlife protection, Wildlife Rescue
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Day 22 – How many flowers in an acre
For Day 22 of 30 Days Wild my sister and I challenged each other to see how many different flowers we could find in an acre, in the field next door to our house. I’m sure we missed quite a … Continue reading
Posted in 30 Days Wild, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, Uncategorized, Wildflowers, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged 30 Days Wild, bindweed, bird's foot trefoil, Blogging, brambles, clover, comfrey, common spotted orchid, daisy, field scabious, forget me knot, hedge woundwort, images, nature, nettle, oxeye diasy, photography, scarlet pimpernel, self-heal, vetch, wild carrot, wild flowers
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30 Days Wild – Day 4 – Watching A Spider Catch Its Prey
Labyrinth Spider catching its prey When watching wildlife I unfortunately often tend to overlook the tiny things like this Labyrinth Spider. Labyrinth Spiders (Agelena labyrinthica) can grow up to 18mm long and can be found in the months of June … Continue reading
Posted in 30 Days Wild, Blogging, creepy crawlies, insects, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, Rural life, Uk nature, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Tagged 30 Days Wild, blog, Blogging, education, Environment, images, nature, photography, Spider, wildlife
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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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Badger watching at Wytham Woods.
Oxfordshire Mammal Group runs various educational events throughout the year. Yesterday was an afternoon of looking and learning about signs of Badgers, followed by an evening of Badger watching in Wytham Woods. Wytham Woods is located just outside Oxford and owned … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Badgers, Blogging, mammals, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, science, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography, Woodland, Wytham woods
Tagged Badgers, blog, education, Environment, images, mammals, nature, Oxford, photography, woodlands, Wytham woods
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If you go down to the woods today
This will be the third month I have been writing a short paragraph for my local Parish council website promoting our village woodland. The wood is owned by the Council but managed by the local community. The woodland covers 24 … Continue reading
Posted in 30 Days Wild, birds, Blogging, Butterfly, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, Uk nature, Uncategorized, Wildflowers, Wildlife, Woodland
Tagged 30 Days Wild, birds, Blogging, Bluetit, Butterfly, Environment, flowers, If you go down to the woods today, images, May, nature, photography, wild flowers, woodlands
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Fox cubs
Barely taller than the Bluebells themselves, three fox cubs play while their mother watches over them. I slowly creep closer until I’m hiding behind a tree trunk that conveniently splits into two giving me an ideal viewing point. … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Blogging, fox, mammals, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, trail camera, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography, Woodland
Tagged Blogging, Bluebells, Environment, fox, fox cubs, foxes, images, Keeptheban, nature, Oxfordshire, photography, trail camera, Vixen, wildlife, Wildlife photography, woodland
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Neighbourhood mammals
Back to school this week so I’ve not been able to get out much with my camera. I heard a rustling amongst the dead leaves, expecting it to be a blackbird searching for food, I was surprised to see a … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, garden, Hedgehogs, mammals, nature, Oxfordshire, Rat, science, trail camera, Uncategorized, Wildflowers
Tagged blog, Blogging, Bristol, Environment, fox, garden, hedgehog, images, nature, photography, Rat, trail camera, wildlife, Wildlife photography, Wood mouse
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Water Vole Day
Water Voles (Arvicola amphibius) are native to the UK and have been protected since 1981 by the Wildlife and Countryside act. There has been a massive decline in Water Vole numbers since 1900 and by 1990 we had lost 90% … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, mammals, nature, outdoors, photography, River, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged Blogging, Celandine, Environment, Gloucestershire, images, mammal, nature, photography, river bank, Water vole, wildlife
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Spring mammals
I’ve spent a lot of time each evening with the Roe deer over the past week. As the sun sets it is such an amazing sight to watch as each ray casts a golden light through what will become a … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Blogging, mammals, nature, Oxfordshire, photography, Rural life, Uk nature, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged Blogging, Environment, Hares, images, nature, photography, Roe deer, Spring, Sunset, wildlife, Wildlife photography
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