Just wondering how many different species of wild life there are on our gardens. How many could we find in a week if we looked hard enough: plants, insects, birds and animals.
We've seen evidence of wild rabbits (droppings) and foxes (a couple of dead rabbits), there are always birds and insects.
It does make you think.
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Showing posts with label Amateur Naturalist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amateur Naturalist. Show all posts
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Mushroom in the garden
PLEASE NOTE THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY MADE ON 6TH SEPTEMBER 2011
I made a minor editing change. Not sure why it has now appeared on this date. Apologies!
Out in the garden I spotted this strange fungi (strange to me, because I've never been into mushrooms and toadstools). I had a look and I think it's a Blackish-Purple Russula Russula atropurpurea we have a Beech tree in the garden and this mushroom seems to be common with Oak and Beech trees.
Top view.
Side view.
I made a minor editing change. Not sure why it has now appeared on this date. Apologies!
Out in the garden I spotted this strange fungi (strange to me, because I've never been into mushrooms and toadstools). I had a look and I think it's a Blackish-Purple Russula Russula atropurpurea we have a Beech tree in the garden and this mushroom seems to be common with Oak and Beech trees.
Top view.
Side view.
Industrial Estate Nature
I had to take my car for an MOT today and so went to our local garage on an industrial park. It was a nice day so I decided to go out and have a look around to see what I could see.
It was quite amazing that it about 15 minutes of ambling around just how much was around.
Apart from the usual Dandelions Taraxacum officinale, Daisies Bellis perennis, Hawthorns Crategus monogyna, and (what I recognise almost instantly like an old friend) Common Ragwort Senecio jacobaea, I also saw Wild Pear Pyrus communis. There were some areas which seemed to be cultivated too, and were several plants in these beds, one of which looked as though it might be Sea-Buckthorn Hippophae rhamnoides, some rosehips, and a number of shrubs with white berries. Now these ones with white berries were in the area where there was an actual bedding area. So these may well be cultivated plants rather than wild ones.
I did feel a bit foolish looking around an industrial estate looking at plants and taking photos, but it takes all sorts and I am trying to be an Amateur Naturalist....
It was quite amazing that it about 15 minutes of ambling around just how much was around.
Apart from the usual Dandelions Taraxacum officinale, Daisies Bellis perennis, Hawthorns Crategus monogyna, and (what I recognise almost instantly like an old friend) Common Ragwort Senecio jacobaea, I also saw Wild Pear Pyrus communis. There were some areas which seemed to be cultivated too, and were several plants in these beds, one of which looked as though it might be Sea-Buckthorn Hippophae rhamnoides, some rosehips, and a number of shrubs with white berries. Now these ones with white berries were in the area where there was an actual bedding area. So these may well be cultivated plants rather than wild ones.
Wild Pear
Rosehip
Sea-Buckthorn
Unknown (to me at least) plant with white fruit
Monday, 5 September 2011
Welcome
Well, this is the first post of my new blog. A few details first... I'm a 40-something dad with two young children, one 6 and the other 3. I've been interested in the natural world and birds, insects, animals for some years (since I was a child), and with my children becoming more interested in nature themselves, I thought I might try and learn more too.
So this is going to be a web record of some of the 'discoveries' and fun that I have (as an adult) and that we have as a family when we explore nature.
So this is going to be a web record of some of the 'discoveries' and fun that I have (as an adult) and that we have as a family when we explore nature.
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