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Spring – as if to tease us ….

Published on: January 8, 2020February 8, 2023 by Robin Sutton Category:Birds, Flora, Insects, Uncategorized, Wildlife 1 Comment
Daffodil shoots late December 2019

As if to tease us, indications of better things to come arrived just as daylight hours reached their minimum. The first tentative daffodil shoots appeared amongst the rapidly dwindling Calendulas in the garden and deep in the hedge a Song Thrush started to sing. Knowing that the worst of...

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Seven Swans a-Swimming in the Outer Hebrides

Published on: December 28, 2019February 8, 2023 by Hebridean Naturalist Category:Birds 1 Comment
Wild Swans

According to the traditional English carol The Twelve Days of Christmas, on the seventh day we should look forward to the delivery of “seven swans a swimming” which would be a notable addition to any menagerie. It conjures an idyllic, pastoral vision of a septet (or should it be...

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The other things you find in moth traps

Published on: November 22, 2019February 8, 2023 by Robin Sutton Category:Hebridean Naturalists, Insects, Wildlife Comment

Like many people I run a moth trap in the garden. It gets put out on suitable nights from March through to November. The best nights are those with low wind speeds and overcast humid conditions. Evenings with heavy rain and high winds are definite no trap days. In...

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A story in a single photograph – dandelion pollination

Published on: June 25, 2019February 8, 2023 by Robin Sutton Category:Flora, Insects Comment

A close-up photograph of a dandelion flower reveals the strange strategy of dandelion pollination. Each “flower” is actually a composite of hundreds of individual flowers.  Each has a single petal but its own set of male and female parts and produces its own nectar and pollen.  Early flowering dandelions...

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Between the Tides

Published on: June 2, 2019February 8, 2023 by Lee Thickett Category:Invertebrates, Marine Life 1 Comment
Polycera quadrilineata

As well as all the fascinating organisms reported in On the Beach, if you delve down among the seaweeds you may find some colourful and graceful creatures that you might be surprised to learn are called Sea Slugs. Scientifically they are known as nudibranch molluscs, the first word meaning...

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