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Bamber Bridge Birder: 01/08/11 - 01/09/11
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Musings and photos from the nature around me. Local Patch - Stags Lodge, Cuerden Valley Park. Aston Rowant NNR - 2nd August 2011. I managed a second visit to this wonderful butterfly site in just over a week and what a difference. The temperature was around 25C with very little wind and though it was cloudy the number of butterflies was treble the amount I saw on my previous visit. Above Essex Skipper below Large Skipper. Above Small Copper below Small Heath. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Awesome Inc. ...
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from the field book: August 2010
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From the field book. Sunday, 22 August 2010. Great Hill and Black Brook. The skies were looking very changeable today as I set off for Great Hill. I'm glad I went because a wonderful spectacle awaited - well over a hundred swallows zooming around at low levels. As I paused to admire them, I wondered if the many short-tailed youngsters amongst them knew about the migratory adventures that lay so soon ahead. I decided to return. Monday, 16 August 2010. All the photos below are from the British Dragonfly So...
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from the field book: OPAL Survey
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From the field book. Sunday, 10 October 2010. I've recently been working with a group to complete a clean air survey organised by OPAL. Open Air Laboratories). It involved measuring tree girths, counting fungal spots on sycamore leaves and identifying lichen on oak, ash and sycamore trees. The survey doesn't take long to complete and you could easily complete it in a local park or open area. What's more all the ID charts and materials you need are provided - a great teaching resource. From the field book.
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Catch a Single Thought...: February 2015
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Friday, 27 February 2015. After my mammoth reading session in January, I haven't done so well this month. I'm blaming half term and now chicken pox for absorbing all my time! I did manage to complete my B for A-Z authors but should really be much further along than this by now.I need to choose shorter books I think. Here's what I've read this month:-. A Walk in the Park by Jill Mansell. Star rating: * *. The Skeleton Cupboard: Stories from a clinical psychologist by Tanya Byron. Star rating: * *. This is...
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from the field book: Great Hill and Black Brook
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From the field book. Sunday, 22 August 2010. Great Hill and Black Brook. The skies were looking very changeable today as I set off for Great Hill. I'm glad I went because a wonderful spectacle awaited - well over a hundred swallows zooming around at low levels. As I paused to admire them, I wondered if the many short-tailed youngsters amongst them knew about the migratory adventures that lay so soon ahead. I decided to return. And I saw a Black Darter ( here. This w/e, too . my first. 5 September 2010 at...
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from the field book: May 2010
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From the field book. Tuesday, 25 May 2010. One of the reasons I love living near the West Pennine. Moors is that there are always wonderful walks to enjoy whatever the season. I took my camera to show you but without a view finder and it being such a sunny day I couldn't see what was on the screen, it was a case of point and hope! Nevertheless here is a short extract from Sunday's walk. Only a few minutes up the hill from White Coppice. These great millstone grit (? Slabs guide you along Spitler's. Peat ...
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from the field book: Stocks Reservoir
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From the field book. Wednesday, 11 August 2010. We decided to enjoy the sun and showers by taking a walk around Stocks Reservoir. It's a 11km / 7m circular walk which is well signed. Close to our start point is a United Utilities office - don't they just own some beautiful buildings? We see several oystercatchers. One of the joys of this walk in summer is the flowers. Everywhere fields are pitted by the purple heads of black knapweed. And self-heal and through the grass vetch. And I also spot sneezewort.
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from the field book: June 2010
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From the field book. Wednesday, 23 June 2010. Woodland Wonders and Wellbeing. This month, I'm teaching at Yarrow Valley Park, Chorley. The aim is to promote the importance of trees in the environment as well as developing social interaction and communication skills. Created a sculpture which doubles up as a home for mini beasts. Above is another design which we hope will attract centipedes and beetles etc. Sunday, 20 June 2010. Sunshine on the Fells. To Great Hill. Left is a photo taken en route. Today I...
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from the field book: September 2010
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From the field book. Sunday, 5 September 2010. Charnock Richard Scarecrow Festival. A quick visit to White Coppice. This morning was rewarded with the delight of about two hundred house martins, along with a few sand martins and swallows feeding in the shelter of Stronstrey. This evening I had a look around Charnock. This charming horse and fox really made me smile. It's obvious whose side the horse is on. But it looks like not everyone was enjoying themselves - I wonder what made this guy angry. Bird Fo...
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from the field book: December 2009
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From the field book. Monday, 28 December 2009. The Neatness of Crows. All photos of crows welcome - just attach to an email. Thanks. And first up is a hooded crow from Peter Woodruff. This reminds me of my trips to the north. (We don't often see hooded crows in Lancashire.). Tuesday, 22 December 2009. I've not seen a goldcrest in the garden this winter which is a shame. For the past few years one has wintered in / close to out garden. It has been a bad year for them but let's hope. I managed to coincide ...
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