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May | 2011 | The Wild Diary
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James Chubb, Wildlife Ranger. Monthly Archives: May 2011. Dry as a bone. I would be wrong of me to open this weeks article with anything not linked to the incredibly dry weather we have been experiencing recently. And, while it may have come as a nice surprise for early season cricketers (although Newton’s square already looks like mid August) and has brought a potentially bumper crop of pears to my trees, it is having a massive impact in the countryside. Dragonflies are bound to water for most of their ...
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August | 2011 | The Wild Diary
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James Chubb, Wildlife Ranger. Monthly Archives: August 2011. A host of unusual loveliness. Firstly, a quick apology for the hiatus of last week, a sheer volume of events through the week and the previous three weekends meant that I was unable to meet the copy deadline and sadly missed our weekly wildlife rendez-vous. Easily overlooked as a piece of algae, sea spiders are weird creatures! Sea spiders in our waters tend to be found in rockpools, hanging on to tiny tree-like algae, on which they hunt for ti...
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James Chubb, Wildlife Ranger. This year I toddled off for my holidays in early July. I rather innocently termed this break my ‘summer’ holiday, as it happened to fall at a time of year when the earth’s axial tilt during its annual orbit of the sun produced longer daylight hours and historically higher average temperatures. Looks like I chose the wrong summer month to take a beach holiday, I should have booked October! People lay strewn across the beach, the sun beat down and baked the golden sand and the...