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  • Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Twenty-four

    10 April 2020

    Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Twenty-four

    Fancy another bird race? Check out our snazzy new logo and fantastic bird identification guides.

     
  • Species of the day: Goldfinch

    09 April 2020

    Species of the day: Goldfinch

    The UK’s Goldfinch population has pretty much doubled in the last fifty years, now heard commonly in around two thirds of gardens across the country. In fact, it’s our gardens that have undoubtedly been the key to its recent success.

     
  • Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Twenty-three

    09 April 2020

    Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Twenty-three

    The Nuthatch - the Bird Table Buccaneer

     
  • Moth Blog 2

    09 April 2020

    Moth Blog 2

    Clear, cold and frosty nights have been hampering our garden moth trap, but things are improving

     
  • Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Twenty-two

    08 April 2020

    Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Twenty-two

    A pink moon and a Green Woodpecker get me thinking about life, the universe and everything.

     
  • Species of the day: Grey Squirrel

    08 April 2020

    Species of the day: Grey Squirrel

    There probably couldn’t be a more contentious animal amongst UK wildlife than the Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis).

     
  • Species of the day: Hairy-footed Flower Bee

    07 April 2020

    Species of the day: Hairy-footed Flower Bee

    These Flower Bees are certainly characterful - the males in particular zip around at inordinate speed, interspersing that with bouts of immaculate hovering

     
  • Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Twenty-one

    07 April 2020

    Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Twenty-one

    I’m not the only one trapped inside on this sunny afternoon.

     
  • Robin - Bird Song

    07 April 2020

    Robin - Bird Song

    We may love the Robin, but there’s something about them that belies their general demeanour - they’re viciously territorial.

     
  • Species of the day: Buzzard

    06 April 2020

    Species of the day: Buzzard

    The Common Buzzard has in recent years displaced the Kestrel as the UK’s most widely distributed and observed raptor species - it can now be seen in every county.

     
  • Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Twenty

    06 April 2020

    Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Twenty

    After being confined for twenty days it’s time to pause and insert a Comma into my prison sentence.

     
  • Moth Blog

    06 April 2020

    Moth Blog

    Bob Foreman starts a regular series of blogs about garden moth trapping