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Halo around the moon
This evening about 8.30pm there appeared the most beautiful halo around the moon. Today the moon is 91.2%, so nearly full. It rose at around 15.40 this afternoon. I had just gone to let my dogs out in to the … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, garden, Local patch, Moon, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, sky at night, Uncategorized
Tagged garden, photography, Moon, space, sky
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Work Experience At CEH
Over the last week I have been doing Work Experience at The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. I really enjoyed working here and I am very grateful for the opportunity. Day one Arriving at The Center for Ecology and Hydrology … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Citizen science, nature, Oxfordshire, science, survey, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography, Work Experience
Tagged Bees, Blogging, CEH, Environment, Honey, kestrel, photography, pollution, School Life, science, water, Work Experience
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Winter again
After seeing my first Brimstone Butterfly of the year on Friday my local patch seems to have returned to winter this weekend. I do wonder how all the butterflies, bees, other insects and plants which started to emerge in the … Continue reading
Posted in Local patch, mammals, nature, Oxfordshire, photography, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography, Woodland
Tagged Butterfly, nature, photography, rabbit, Roe deer, 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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Plettenberg bay
The area around Plettenberg bay is full of water based activities, from Whale watching to snorkelling with seals, kayaking to diving with sharks. As the weather was calm we decided to go out Whale watching again, this time with Ocean … Continue reading
Teniqua Treetops, Knysna
After spending a few days on the coast we moved to a totally different setting, Teniqua Treetops. A group of canvas tree houses make up an eco friendly place to stay high up in indigenous forest on the foothills of … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Blogging, Camping, nature, outdoors, photography, South Africa, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged Blogging, Cape White-eye, Cattle Egret, Double Collared Sunbird, Environment, Fiscal shrike, Hadeda Ibis, jackal buzzard, Kynsna, Kynsna Touraco, Little Sparrowhawk, nature, photography, scorpion, Southern Boubou, Teniqua treetops
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