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Some thoughts on non-native species
How many non-native species do you think there are in the UK? Ten? Fifty? A few hundred? Keep going upwards…
Posted in Biology, Birds, Botany, Invertebrates, Mammals
Tagged beaver, crayfish, grey squirrel, himalayan balsam, introduced, invasive, japanese knotweed, non-native, snow geese
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30 Days Wild – Day 28 – Rain
With the rain continuing to fall I was wondering what I could write about today. Surely not another wildfowl photo?
Posted in 30 Days Wild, Biology, Birds, Botany
Tagged 30 Days Wild, birds, rain, weather
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30 Days Wild – Day 26 – Aberlady Bay
Day 26 is really a second part to Day 25, coming from the first ever Local Nature Reserve, established in 1952. Aberlady Bay.
Monday Bird of the Week No.19 – House Sparrow
Since we have been covering common birds in this run of MBOW, it seems only right to turn to our most common of all; the House Sparrow. Yet its perennial status on the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch list masks a … Continue reading
Monday Bird of the Week No.15 – The Dunnock
Unlike last week’s entry, this week we have a bird that is beyond any doubt brown. It is the quintessential ‘little brown job’. It is the Dunnock. But does ‘brown’ mean ‘boring’?
The dinosaurs didn’t see their extinction coming… what’s our excuse?
When I was younger I used to think about dinosaurs a lot. I’d think about how they lived and interacted, what they might have looked like, all the usual things. But I also used to wonder about extinction. Did they … Continue reading
Posted in Amphibians, Biology, Birds, Botany, Evolution, Fossils, Fungi, Invertebrates, Mammals, Media, Plants, Why watch wildlife?, Zoology
Tagged anthropocene, extinction
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What… is the flight speed of an unladen Goldcrest?
An unintended consequence of yesterday’s post was that I found myself in a discussion on Facebook regarding how long it took a Goldcrest to fly across the North Sea between England and Scandinavia.
Lazing on a sunny afternoon at RSPB Old Moor
With the happy confluence of a much-needed day off work, and some decent weather, it seemed sensible to get out of the house and do a little birdwatching. There were a few options, but in the end I decided to … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Birds, Ethology, Plants, Why watch wildlife?
Tagged birds, nature, RSPB Old Moor
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