Robbie RoweIn the cemetery today:
Air still chill despite the sun
Dunnock & Robin singing
A collared dove launches wings whistling into the air
First blossoms of cherry, petals creased like crumpled bedclothes
Crocuses battered by the recent rains
Drove out to J's thatched cottage near Fordingbridge.
Forest very wet after weeks of rain, ponds overflowing onto roads, winter trees reflected in standing water, fords running high.
A solitary bat flying in the late afternoon gloom.
Evening birdsong building as Spring approaches.
A surprise on leaving: clear skies, stars glittering, Orion gazing down.
Gartenpoet🪳 Auch wenn er sich fotogen in Szene setzt - der Rothalsbock (Stictoleptura rubra) ist es nicht, der an meinem Kohl frisst 🙄😅
– der adulte Käfer lebt von Pollen und Nektar, nicht von Kohlblättern 🥬
#InsektenImGarten #Kohlpflanzen #Naturbeobachtung #FreisingerGartenblog #Makrofotografie #Käferwissen
Not the red-necked longhorn beetle (Stictoleptura rubra) munching on my cabbage…
#InsectsInTheGarden #LonghornBeetle #GardenObservations #BeetleWatch #MacroPhotography #NatureNotes
KellyannPlaintain-leaf pussytoes and painted trillium are blooming and catbird is back! 🌱🪶 #NH #Spring #NatureNotes
Went for a wander through the woods and heathland around Eyeworth pond in the New Forest yesterday. Even at 10 in the morning the birdsong was stunning: mostly song thrush, wren, blackcap, chaffinch. A single common redstart was my 1st of the year (male, singing), and at least 2 cuckoos, 1 seen in flight. Also 2 common lizards darted away into the bracken. Crab apples in bloom and alive with droning bees.
Squirrels feasting on camellia blooms
A song thrush singing since before the dawn
A great spotted woodpecker calling and exploring a liquidambar
A crow cleans its beak against a ridge tile
A firecrest fossicks in a laurel
Dunnocks & great tits chatter and chant
KellyannCVS was out of literally everything I needed, but a great blue heron flew over the parking lot as I left, so I'm counting that as a win. 🪶
Today I watched a chipmunk ease her body down a bramble and reach out a paw for blackberries, eating them one at a time.
Why would anyone want to live on Mars?
This bog is my happy place. It's where we found a haul of black trumpet mushroooms last summer, where we saw beavers and a heron and geese and a wood duck and her ducklings last week on a 95-degree day. So many interesting and gorgeous trees as well, and beautiful wildflowers. So glad it was saved.
Beavers, developers and community can-do celebrated at Rumney's Quincy Bog's 50th - InDepthNH.org
At the Quincy Bog Natural Area Saturday, the story was told and cake was enjoyed, marking an amazing story of community can-do, which began with a developer trying to blow up dams to drain the wetlands.
Last night on my return from work I saw a cecropia moth under our outdoor light.
I can't believe I saw a bobcat and a cecropia moth in less than a week.