Wildlife Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/wildlife/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Fri, 02 Dec 2022 20:59:31 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Wildlife Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/wildlife/ 32 32 2696646 New Trees https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2022/12/new-trees/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2022/12/new-trees/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2022 09:14:17 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=38493 Anna recently drew my attention to a post on the ‘Make Room for Nature’ Facebook Group saying: Spent a lovely day off taking Woodland Trust Cymru and Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust staff around a few of last year’s tree-planting sites If you’d like anything from 1 to 300 native trees to help tackle climate change and...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2022/12/new-trees/feed/ 1 38493 Big Butterfly Count https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/07/big-butterfly-count-4/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/07/big-butterfly-count-4/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2014 11:20:21 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=17312 Morgan and I have just taken part in the Big Butterfly Count. It was a gorgeous day for it, 20ºC and sunny with butterflies and other flying bugs all over the place. It was hard to keep up with them all, but we counted 16 Meadow Browns, 3 Small Tortoisehsell’s and a Small White. It was easy to...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/07/big-butterfly-count-4/feed/ 1 17312 More Bees Please https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/06/bees-please/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/06/bees-please/#respond Wed, 18 Jun 2014 07:56:46 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=17000 The Bee Hotel was a live with activity today – who’d have thought it could be so successful. I’m still working on my bee ID though. The larger bamboo canes seem to be filling up nicely with Red Mason Bees (Osmia bicornis), at least that’s what I thought they were, but I’m beginning to have...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/06/bees-please/feed/ 0 17000 Red Mason Bees https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/06/red-mason-bees/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/06/red-mason-bees/#comments Mon, 16 Jun 2014 05:51:26 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=16994 I’m pleased to announce that our bee hotel has some new residents. Since installing it earlier in the year a few spiders have taken up residence in and around it, it’s roof has been used for sunbathing by fledgling sparrows, and the magpies stole a load of the bamboo canes and smaller sticks to add...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/05/a-soggy-garden-may/feed/ 0 16829 Building a Bee Hotel https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/04/building-bee-hotel/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/04/building-bee-hotel/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2014 06:14:08 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=16192 I’m not really sure what brought it on but late on Sunday afternoon I suddenly had the urge to build a bee hotel. We’d already inspected our honey bees during which Moirgan was stung by one, but I persuaded him to come out into the garden again to help. It had warmed up a little now,...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/10/a-new-garden-speices/feed/ 0 8944 Bumblebee Photos – Which is Best? https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/05/bumblebee-photos-which-is-best/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/05/bumblebee-photos-which-is-best/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 09:08:14 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=7976 The Aberystwyth Beekeepers Association has a photographic competition coming up, so Morgan and I are going to enter. The categories are: Inside the Hive Beekeepers Other Bees (not the honey bee) We are only allowed one photo per category so I now have to choose a single photo for each. I have to make sure Morgan...

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