After last year’s mixed success of completing my resolutions, I am going to not aim quite so high – but I am still going to set myself 17 resolutions for the year. See a silver-spotted skipper butterfly (Hesperia comma). If I do this, I will have seen all the skipper species (Hesperiidae) in the UK. […]
Completed Take part in BSBI’s New Year Plant Hunt As discussed in ‘Back from my break‘ (January 2016) Explore NT Wimpole Estate Definitely managed that, although I still didn’t get to visit everywhere on the estate – but that is because it is ridiculously huge Visit NT Wicken Fen I went a bit further than […]
This post originally appeared on the A Focus On Nature blog on 24th December 2016. Welcome to our 2016 Advent Calendar series (#AFONAdvent)! This year, our theme is “The Gift of Inspiration”. For each day, one of our members has written a blog post about someone who has inspired them, and how that inspiration has […]
Having recently read and reviewed Winter, I was reminded of the winter storms I experienced at Chesil Beach. The wind is rising. I can hear it buffeting against the windows, thundering its way down the street like it’s throwing a tantrum. The cottage isn’t right next to the beach, but I can hear the waves […]
*This post originally appeared on the A Focus On Nature blog* Thus far the Season anthologies from E&T and The Wildlife Trusts have been wonderful reads, and when Winter alighted on my doormat, I had my fingers crossed for more literary delights. I always struggle with winter as a season. Suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder […]
Everything is beginning to calm down and sort itself out in my life, which is wonderful and also means that I may just have some time to write my blog again! Fingers crossed! There is a lot I could write about in this post, but I am going to focus on a nature walk I […]
I haven’t managed to write a blog post for three months now, which is just crazy. Due to a combination of being incredibly busy at work, very busy with A Focus On Nature work and some not-so-great stuff happening in my personal life, I haven’t had the time to write. And when I have, the […]
I had a manic few days to finish off the month of June and thus 30 Days Wild – pond dipping, moth trapping, butterfly chasing … the usual stuff really. Rather than go through all 6 days, I have included the highlights below. Day 24 Thrilled to see this Large Skipper butterfly at @WickenFenNT this […]
Another day at Wicken Fen today with another school group. I was leading two of their activities today: pond dipping and a guided walk on the Fen. However in other news, this week is National Insect Week and today I published my post for the A Focus On Nature blog about NIW and how AFON […]
Ok, so I fell behind somewhat on my #30DaysWild blogging – oops! Not to worry though, I have been connecting with nature every day despite being busy with work, AFON bits and pieces, and general life stuff. I won’t go into every single wild act that happened every day, so here is a summary, shown […]