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Devon occasional: October 2013
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Sunday, 6 October 2013. It wasn't quite the Frank Zappa experience. Not work-friendly lyrics, I warn you): an altogether sedate and pleasant week in Brittany with wife and child - a combination of sunshine (mainly) and warm weather - just what we needed. The beach and the cliffs at Kerloc'h. Was accomplished with the minimum of fuss. We found our house, we unpacked, we stretched out our legs and chilled out, starting as we intended to go on. The flushes are dominated by Black Bog-rush Schoenus nigricans.
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Devon occasional: Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain...
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Saturday, 18 January 2014. Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain. We're quite high up the catchment and the rivers here are short and inclined to spate conditions, so flooding never lasts that long on any one occasion, but it can repeat over and over again if the weather gets it just so. Just before Christmas (doesn't that seem a long time ago? Living here would make me nervous. But I wouldn't live here anyway! The road-bridge through town. Looking across the cycle path. Looking south, towards the bridge. Inverte...
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Devon occasional: August 2013
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Wednesday, 28 August 2013. The moth itself, before its trip through the post. I gently encouraged it out of the jar and into a small box, where Basti and I took a good look at it. Seemed innocuous enough and also depressingly anonymous: fairly plain brown above and below, though with rather pointed wings. So, I enlisted the aid of the experts - why have 'em if you can't? Aka the Angoumois Grain Moth. Though the species is a grain pest. Male genitalia of Sitotroga cerealella. 169; R. Heckford, 2013).
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Devon occasional: Inselaffe am See - part II
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Wednesday, 29 July 2015. Inselaffe am See - part II. Re-wet my floodplain. Death by drowning for the conifers, life through light and water for the rest. A wonderful wet mix of marsh and swamp vegetation. A small, but rather beautiful, micro-moth in the margins of the re-wetted areas near Blankenfoerde. Setting off, Lissa snuggled down and went to sleep within about two minutes - result! I set myself into a gentle amble and did some mobile birding, botanising and general wildlife-watching on the hoof.
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Devon occasional: May 2013
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Thursday, 23 May 2013. Having a small person in the house now means that some things have changed radically. Our time outdoors is constrained by sleep patterns (to some degree) and time spent with the camera is now precious. That said, the recent spell of (whisper it) fine weather here has given me an opportunity to get out into the garden and appreciate what's lurking in the vegetation there. One of a number of slender hoverflies which cruises the garden - this one a rather black/bottle-green animal.
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Devon occasional: January 2014
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Saturday, 18 January 2014. Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain. We're quite high up the catchment and the rivers here are short and inclined to spate conditions, so flooding never lasts that long on any one occasion, but it can repeat over and over again if the weather gets it just so. Just before Christmas (doesn't that seem a long time ago? Living here would make me nervous. But I wouldn't live here anyway! The road-bridge through town. Looking across the cycle path. Looking south, towards the bridge. A Birde...
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Devon occasional: June 2013
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Sunday, 30 June 2013. A rather random collection of sightings this month. I've been out to do some bird surveys (for work, even: makes a pleasant change! On a brighter note though, the (a) pair of Treecreepers used the same gap behind a Marsh Tit nest tat was used last year, and seem to have fledged a full brood of five - last year the chicks all drowned in a torrential downpour (otherwise known as June 2012). I think this is Caloptilia cuculipenella. Easy: nice male Azure Damselfly, Coenagrion puella.
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Devon occasional: February 2014
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Monday, 17 February 2014. Back out to do some ringing - it seems like forever since the last session, though in fact it's only (only! A month. My glamorous assistant cried off late on Saturday evening, so I had the site to myself - and as wife and child are living it up in Germany for a couple of days, I had the luxury of no guilty conscience at work by the end of the session. That will be interesting! Sparrowhawk. Talons safely the other side of my mitt. Yesterday produced a handful of experienced indiv...
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Scilly Sanctuary - Links
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Scilly Sanctuary - Links
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Find out all you need to know about the Isles of Scilly. Http:/ www.simplyscilly.co.uk/. Http:/ www.cornwall-online.co.uk/islesofscilly/Welcome.html. Travel to the Isles of Scilly by Air or Sea. Http:/ www.islesofscilly-travel.co.uk/. Your window on the Scilly Isles. Http:/ www.scillywebcam.com/. Council of the Scilly Isles. Http:/ www.scilly.gov.uk/. Birdlife on the Isles of Scilly. Http:/ www.scillybirding.co.uk/. Tresco Estate and Tropical Garden. Http:/ www.tresco.co.uk/stay/abbey-garden/.
