Archive of: Michael Blencowe

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  Back Garden Bird Race September results

  20 September 2020

  Results from the September Back Garden Bird Race

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  Back Garden Bird Race tomorrow (20 September 10-11)

  19 September 2020

  As we head into Autumn the Back Garden Bird Race returns

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  Amazing Ivy

  14 September 2020

  Despite all the life it supports ivy has a reputation as a killer, its roots sucking the life from the trees it surrounds. This isn’t true

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  Creating a Wildflower Meadow in your Garden

  20 August 2020

  How I turned my boring front lawn into a wildflower meadow.

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  Back Garden Bird Race Sunday 23 August 10-11

  20 August 2020

  The Back Garden Bird Race returns for a late summer special.

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  The Wasp Spiders Return

  05 August 2020

  It's the most wonderful time of the year! At the start of August you'll find me crawling around my front lawn - my wildflower meadow. I've been waiting all year for this day to arrive. The spring and summer days of flowers, butterflies and bees and thousand other insects have passed and the colours of the meadow have started to fade.
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  The Back Garden Bird Race returns! Sunday 10-11

  22 July 2020

  Welcome back Bird Racers!  Throughout the darker days of the Covid-19 pandemic our weekly Bird Race event gave a lot of people a reason to step out into the garden or stare out of their window and get away from the bleak news. We asked people to note down every species
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  Corona Wildlife Diary: Day One Hundred

  25 June 2020

  The final Corona Wildlife Diary.

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  Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Ninety-nine

  24 June 2020

  What doesn’t go 99 bonk?

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  Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Ninety-eight

  23 June 2020

  A final round up of wildlife in my garden.