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RSPB Make Your Nature Count 1

Nature

RSPB Make Your Nature Count

The RSPB Make Your Nature Count Survey starts tomorrow. It is very similar to the Big Garden Birdwatch held earlier in the year. Basically you have to spend one hour counting and noting the birds that come into your garden. The only difference is it is held in June not January and they are also...

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Lifestyle / Nature / Photography

Naturalist Weekend

I’ve just spent the weekend in Conwy. I decided to head up to North Wales as there was a North Wales Moth Recorders’ Meeting at the Pensychnant Conservation Centre. I travelled there on Saturday, stopping on the way to do a few geocaches and arrived in plenty of time for the meeting. After a coffee...

Doing our bit for Conservation 2

Nature / Other Sites

Doing our bit for Conservation

As you may know from recent posts I’ve started moth trapping and have been part of the formation of the Ceredigion Moth Group. It’s all a little ‘geeky’ but I quite enjoy the moth trapping, as does Morgan and learning more about the creatures around us is always a good thing. Keeping records of them...

Big Garden Birdwatch Results 1

Lifestyle

Big Garden Birdwatch Results

Thanks to constant pestering from Morgan we have done our Big Garden Birdwatch. Morgan sat there quietly for a whole hour and helped me count the birds we saw. There was nothing unusual and all in all it was a fairly good representation of what we normally get in the garden, with only a couple...

RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch 3

Nature

RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch

This weekend is the weekend that the RSPB have picked for their Big Garden Birdwatch. All you have to do to join in and help with the data is sit down for an hour (preferably with a cup of coffee) and count the birds you see in your garden. You count the number of birds...