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I’m really excited. I’ve been living here three years, and for the first time, it looks like I have some birds nesting in the nesting box at the bottom of my garden. I only have one decent tree, and it is the same one I had the flock of Bohemian Waxwings in in January. I think it’s a pair of blue tits. They spent a few days in March clearing out what was probably a bit of a mess in [...] You can’t fail to have heard about the recent rain of dead and dying blackbirds in Arkansas over the new year. Up to 5000 American Blackbirds were found dead or dying in the streets and gardens of Bebe, Arkanas. Less well covered is that this seems to have coincided with a mass Drum fish-die-off in the same state. Arkansas game officials hope testing scheduled to begin Monday will solve the mystery of why up to 5,000 blackbirds fell from the [...] I had some interesting visitors in my back garden for a little while this morning. I have no idea what these birds are. They were around the size of a starling. Notably, many of them seemed to have a head-crest. You can click the picture for a rather larger version. As usual, my cheap camera utterly failed to get a decent picture. Update: After a little research, it looks as if they were Bohemian Waxwings, not commonly found in [...] My garden would horrify most real gardeners. Most of what I do to it involves ripping out the ever-encroaching bindweed coming under the fence from neighbours who consider them “ornamental”, and trying to make it as pleasant a place for nature as possible. Here are a few things I found in my garden adventures today. My little camera, as usual, struggles with getting close enough, but they’re just about usable: Seven Spotted Ladybird Galls on a Sycamore leaf [...] Araneus diadematus, the European garden spider, has been busy in my garden. I spotted this group of bouncing babies having fun on my wheeliebin and thought I’d share! The focus isn’t perfect, but I think it’s the best my little camera is going to manage as close as I had to get. These spiderlings are little more than a millimetre across each. Click the picture to get a larger version. Araneus diadematus – Baby European Garden Spiders I hope [...] Via Twitter from Ysharros. It really IS cold. This is a NASA satellite image from today. The British Big Freeze 2010 Truly epic. From the Telegraph: The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.” He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock. Mr Bush, whose second and final term as President ends at the end of the year, then left the meeting at the Windsor Hotel [...] |
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