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coquet nature lover: Gliding into Spring
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A garden and wildlife nature diary from Northumberland and beyond. Saturday, 25 March 2017. Le corbeau ne vole que le jour. Le hibou ne vole que la nuit. Le cygne vole la nuit et le jour. Xtract from 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame. By Vico r Hugo -. Welcome to my garden. First up the blooms. Next up a few regular visitors . Although the lesser redpoll and the brambling will be off any day now. Lackbird guarding his nesting spot. Lackbirds just love fruit! Esser redpoll feeding on niger seed. As Oliver Twis...
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn: Comma butterfly Polygonia c-album
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn. An amateur works out what lives in his garden. Wednesday, January 6, 2010. Comma butterfly Polygonia c-album. I am an amateur naturalist trying to learn something about everything living in my garden. January is seeing heavy snow falls in the UK and as I write there is more than a foot of snow in my garden. To remind us of those balmy summer afternoons during these dark winter days therefore, a picture of a butterfly on the buddleia bush. In the early 19th century Commas were...
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn: A Mock Orange Tree - Philadelphus coronarius
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn. An amateur works out what lives in his garden. Friday, June 10, 2011. A Mock Orange Tree - Philadelphus coronarius. I am an amateur naturalist trying to learn something about everything living in my garden. Photos 1 and 2, taken a few days ago, shows the Mock Orange ( Philadelphus. Bush that grows at the back of my garden. It is a large plant (maybe 4m x 4m) and a fabulous site in early summer. And yes, it smells as gorgeous as it looks! And 'true' Orange (genus Citus. Firstl...
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn: May 2011
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn. An amateur works out what lives in his garden. Tuesday, May 31, 2011. A long legged Dolichopus fly. I am an amateur naturalist trying to discover everything living in my garden. For some time I have hankered after a garden pond (there are few things better for encouraging wildlife into one's garden). On a whim, I recently took the plunge (sorry, terrible pun! Photo 1 shows two flies sunning themselves at the water's edge. There were several dozen around the pond. I found in m...
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coquet nature lover: January 2017
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A garden and wildlife nature diary from Northumberland and beyond. Monday, 23 January 2017. Winter walk in Coquetdale, Northumberland. Get your boots on with coquet nature lover. Maybe it’s a sure sign of growing old ,. Or maybe I’ve just been busy ,. But this last week I’ve been on ‘home terrain mode’ in the Coquet valle y. . Maybe you won’t return but hopefully you will . If not,. At least you can say you’ve been. and you can cross it off your list! Winter sunrise looking towards Cragside. However the...
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn: Two Prominent Moths
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn. An amateur works out what lives in his garden. Friday, May 7, 2010. I am an amateur naturalist trying to identify everything living in my garden. Some time ago I blogged the moth trap I was constructing. My first design was only partially successful (most of my catch were escaping! And since then my designs have undergo a number of iterations to finally arrive at The Walloon Super Trap. You see before you in photo 1! And the second as a Coxcomb Prominent ( Ptilodon capucina.
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn: Cat's Ear Hypochaeris radicata
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn. An amateur works out what lives in his garden. Saturday, October 8, 2011. Cat's Ear Hypochaeris radicata. I am an amateur naturalist trying to discover everything living in my garden. The pretty flower in photo 1 is Cat’s Ear - a common weed in my garden. There are a number of superficially similar British yellow-flowered weeds including the Hawkbits, Sow thistles and the Hawksbeards I blogged here. And not the rather similar Smooth Cat’s Ear ( H. glabra. By contrast, for lon...
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coquet nature lover: A walk by River Coquet in Northumberland
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A garden and wildlife nature diary from Northumberland and beyond. Friday, 8 July 2016. A walk by River Coquet in Northumberland. Oquet nature lover on and around the Coquet. What and where is the Coquet? In case you aren't familiar with this part of the world, the Coquet. I started this walk downstream at Warkworth (. Just five minutes drive north from Amble). A fantastic location for. Nature lovers - as well as the riverside walks, there are amazing beach hikes. Seriously, I saw several white beaked.
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coquet nature lover: Common ringed plover ring number 895838
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A garden and wildlife nature diary from Northumberland and beyond. Thursday, 9 February 2017. Common ringed plover ring number 895838. Quetnaturelover 's search for migratory birds. Are a familiar bird of the North umberland coast. T his species used. To be more frequent. Inland, breeding on river shingle in Coquetdale and other valleys, but are now rare in these areas. There is however a small population at Beadnell Bay where the National Trust manage a 'little tern' breeding colony with. Was rung as a ...
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