Nature, as we know, is pretty amazing. You don’t have to wait long before something new comes along to surprise you, making encouraging, observing and recording wildlife so rewarding. This proved the case yet again on new years day 2024 when out in the Garden we spotted a new species of fungi, our first newContinue reading “First new species record of 2024”
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Being tiny changes everything!
We recently recovered a small petri dish mistakenly left outside for several months gathering rain. Rather than just wash it out we decided first to see what had colonised the dish during this time. We could already see that lots of algae had formed throughout the dish. Lots of detritus had also arrived as well.Continue reading “Being tiny changes everything!”
The Common Chrysalis Snail
Today we confirmed our first ever record of the normally very common land snail, Lauria cylindracea. Sadly we only found it’s shell, the animal itself obviously recently perished. It was attached to some Nostoc (a cyanobacterium) in amongst the mosses on the concrete steps as shown below. Known as The Common Chrysalis Snail, we assumeContinue reading “The Common Chrysalis Snail”
Sparrowhawk
On the 12 December whilst sat at a bedroom window I spotted, out of the corner of my eye, what can only be described as a “Blur” near the garden fence. This was followed immediately by a puff of feathers and soon afterwards a cacophony of cries from circling carrion crows, magpies and gulls. IContinue reading “Sparrowhawk”
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