Well that felt like the quickest year of my life; perhaps seeming even quicker for documenting it on a monthly basis. December was a good month for my list with the addition of over 50 species, though most of them were technically not new species. Instead they were ones that I had just got roundContinue reading “To see a thousand things – December”
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To see a thousand things – November
The poet Thomas Hood has beaten me to my blog this month. His poem, “No!”, ends with the stanza; “No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!” That was pretty much it for November. I found two new plants, though neither was a flower, and added anotherContinue reading “To see a thousand things – November”
To see a thousand things – October
October started with great excitement. A Facebook friend posted a photo of a shrew that her cat had caught in the garage. The photo, just of its head, resembled a flattened Womble, which is exactly how I think White-toothed shrews look. I would have gone with that identification were it not for the fact thatContinue reading “To see a thousand things – October”
To see a thousand things – September
September sucked! I was thinking of leaving the entry for September at that, a sort of blogging equivalent of the Haiku, only for people who haven’t the patience to read a whole Haiku. I had envisaged August as being the month when nothing much happened, a brief pause before the next season started. I hadn’tContinue reading “To see a thousand things – September”
To see a thousand things – August
I hadn’t expected much of August. The month when no news ever happens is also a lean month for wildlife. Most of the flowers are over, the fungi haven’t really started and the birds have swapped singing for skulking. It is still a decent month for moths and with a good guide book and aContinue reading “To see a thousand things – August”
To see a thousand things – July
If June had been my worst month so far, then July was probably my best. Not quite as many new species as I found in May but then these were on top of the ones I had found in May, and all of the other five months in the first half of the year asContinue reading “To see a thousand things – July”
To see a thousand things – June
Where did June go? Before I knew it, it was the 23rd and I had only recorded an additional five species. Not that I hadn’t seen any wildlife this month, in fact I had seen quite a lot, including some species that I had never seen in the wild before, such as Muntjac and Spoonbill,Continue reading “To see a thousand things – June”
To see a thousand things – May
I do pick them! Years in which to do a Bioblitz that is and what a year this is proving to be. As far as winter lingering on in to summer goes, I think I can only recall one other year like it, back in the 90s, when the May blossom didn’t come out untilContinue reading “To see a thousand things – May”
To see a thousand things – April
I took my eye off the ball a bit in April. I’d had in mind that it would have been a bit of a banker, you know with spring and all that. But spring seemed to be in short supply, poking its head out occasionally between pockets of frost in what I’m told was theContinue reading “To see a thousand things – April”
To see a thousand things – March
March was a much better month; it just was! The weather got better, so much so that according to the papers we had the warmest March day for 53 years (when I say we, it was the Telegraph so it will have meant that the south had the warmest day for 53 years, but IContinue reading “To see a thousand things – March”
Raven on the Wing 