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Natural history

Jan 20, 2020Jan 2020

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Despite the frost and snow the spring bulbs just keep pushing through. They do not grow like most plants by dividing and increasing the number of their cells, but by inflating their existing cells hydraulically so that they become much larger, it is...

Natural history

Jan 23, 2020Jan 2020

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The catkins of willow, alder and hazel are truly a sign of the coming spring, if only because they are found on woody plants, whose leafing and seeding life will stretch right through the summer. Yet cleverly take advantage of the leafless spring to ...

Jan 23, 2020Jan 2020

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Following Allamanda's post on wild hedges. Thanks to a mild spell this spring, coming out in my hedgerows now, Hazel and Willow. I love catkins. (See the Natural History group for more about why.)

Natural history

Jan 25, 2020Jan 2020

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More cats, sorry.

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Feb 3, 2020Feb 2020

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Here's another from Mendelssohn, which I really love. It was a choice between this and the Italian Sym. but this is short and . The Midsummer Nights Dream.

Natural history

Feb 12, 2020Feb 2020

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Sound effects. Just speaks for itself literally.

Natural history

Mar 13, 2020Mar 2020

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Change is perhaps the only constant.

Natural history

Apr 5, 2020Apr 2020

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I posted this in the garden group, but thought it would go here as well. Some more of the wildflowers photographed in Portugal a few weeks ago, when we could still travel. The Cistus, also known as Sun or Rock Roses grow everywhere and flower from ...

Apr 10, 2020Apr 2020

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It looks like it is not only squirrels who raid bird tables. Spotted this through the kitchen window.

Apr 11, 2020Apr 2020

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So I have a question please. I have a friend who is very elderly, and she would like to get skype, or something like it, so that she can talk to her grand and great grand children. She only has a landline at this time and no previous experience of ...

Apr 22, 2020Apr 2020

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Since it seems its Earth day, and I just posted this in the gardens group, I just wanted to say thumbs up for really untidy gardens.

UK Atheists & Agnostics

Apr 25, 2020Apr 2020

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So I thought the UK has been doing pretty good at obeying regulations so far, with one or two exceptions. But stupid and selfish may be spreading. Today I was working in my very closed garden centre, which is advertised as closed on its website, ...

Natural history

Apr 28, 2020Apr 2020

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Thought that this would go here as well as on the garden group. Because one of my favourite weeds, the garlic mustard is just coming into flower in the rough hedge bottom adjoining my neighbors field. It is a very common weed in the UK, but I like ...

General & Hellos

May 4, 2020May 2020

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If you think that religion is a bad thing today, then I am sorry to say that I have a very sad thought to share. Religion lives by providing an alternative to the mainstream secular education and thought. In the dark ages when mainstream culture ...

Silly, Random & Fun

May 4, 2020May 2020

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While you are in lock down you may have time for a laugh. Some of these did it for me.

Natural history

May 10, 2020May 2020

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Patience rewarded on both sides.

Silly, Random & Fun

May 11, 2020May 2020

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The first five days after the weekend are always the hardest.

May 19, 2020May 2020

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Satire is always doomed to fail, sooner or later reality always throws you something even more outrageous. Anon.

Natural history

May 27, 2020May 2020

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A really amazing creature.

Natural history

May 31, 2020May 2020

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Natural childbirth and rearing, from a spy camera. Could do without the cutsy voice over at the end but well worth it.

Natural history

Jun 12, 2020Jun 2020

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A story very close to home, sometimes in it.

General & Hellos

Jun 18, 2020Jun 2020

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I you wish to know how well your country is doing controlling the virus. A lesser known statistic that could well be worth a second look.

Dandelion Hunters

Jul 3, 2020Jul 2020

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Just don't ever do as you are told.

Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology

Jul 15, 2020Jul 2020

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A very old mystery, and perhaps we have to accept that some mysteries will never be solved, but at least that gives us freedom to speculate.

Natural history

Jul 21, 2020Jul 2020

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Come on ladies, you have to admit that at least he's trying.

Religious Naturalism

Jul 26, 2020Jul 2020

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Wild Geese, Mary Oliver. You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I ...

Religious Naturalism

Jul 27, 2020Jul 2020

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Allamanda on here posted about Donald Culross Peattie the other day. An author on natural history especially, who to my mind is still, after nearly a century, well worth the read. As a sample I found this, which seems to almost presage Richard ...

Natural history

Aug 4, 2020Aug 2020

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Something very beautiful and not often seen on video, even if not at all friendly. You can i suppose be pretty when you are strong, that must be a law of life.

Natural history

Aug 8, 2020Aug 2020

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How to get to be very old. I love stories about deep time.

Natural history

Aug 11, 2020Aug 2020

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Just like this one, can't tell you why.

Aug 14, 2020Aug 2020

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I post this here, which I originally got for another group, but while the talk by S. Harris is good, I just love the power of the simple graphic image, it may be a bit corny, but well executed and thought through.

General & Hellos

Aug 19, 2020Aug 2020

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If you are worried that face masks may become fashionable, it could be far worse.

Natural history

Aug 19, 2020Aug 2020

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If this did not come from such a credible source, it would be hard to believe.

A friend in need is a friend indeed

Aug 28, 2020Aug 2020

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I ask the question below, because it seems that one of the most difficult things when you are homeless, and especially in trying to find a home, is that you lack a postal address. Perhaps someone nearby, same state at least, could provide a post box ...

Natural history

Aug 30, 2020Aug 2020

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I don't normally do rescue and captive animals on here. But I thought that if you are anything like me, you would like to meet a beautiful and gracious old lady.

Sep 3, 2020Sep 2020

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Meetings of the XXXX committee were perhaps not always enjoyable, but they were in there own way very satisfying. The only down-side being that they involved me in a long journey to London, which meant taking first a car and then two changes of train. Since everyone traveled a long way, there was always a lot of pressure on the time, and things were rarely completed as well as we would have liked. One day we were discussing a document which was to be sent out, but the debate got suck at a ...

Natural history

Sep 5, 2020Sep 2020

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I know winter is coming on for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, and it been a poor summer, but winter brings its own beauties.

Natural history

Sep 9, 2020Sep 2020

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Yet more of life's rich diversity.

Natural history

Sep 11, 2020Sep 2020

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Two different theories about birdsong. My own thought as ever is that the two are not mutually exclusive.

Religious Naturalism

Sep 13, 2020Sep 2020

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I had this conversation with RichCC on another post, and thought it would read well here since it relates to Religious Naturalism. RichCC You point out a serious thought. We're mostly all common folks. People almost always take themselves too ...

Natural history

Sep 15, 2020Sep 2020

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Another highly varied group is the foxes, this just list a small fraction of the species, but do give a good impression of the range.

Natural history

Sep 16, 2020Sep 2020

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Autumn may be on the way now, the Elder shrubs are beginning to turn with us here in the UK, they are always the first. A lot of people think of them as dull because they are fairly common, but if you know how to appreciate what is important and not ...

Natural history

Sep 17, 2020Sep 2020

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We are all missing travel now, just take five minutes for a walk. It is not just the wonder of the individual things in nature, but the way that so much connects, and the places, history and beauty that taking an interest in it can take you to, not ...

Natural history

Sep 20, 2020Sep 2020

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I think this is a really well observed video, so much can be got out of a simple subject.

Religious Naturalism

Sep 22, 2020Sep 2020

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Why not take a gentle half hour out, to listen to U. Goodenough, talking about what is possibly the seminal work on religious naturalism. ( Interestingly, note that there is a cut made by the slightly theological interviewer, at around 24 mins, and ...

Sep 22, 2020Sep 2020

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The vanity of the present: of seeing the past as aimed at our own time, as though the characters in history's play had nothing better to do with their lives than foreshadow us. Richard Dawkins.

Natural history

Sep 24, 2020Sep 2020

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Wonderful birds.

Natural history

Oct 4, 2020Oct 2020

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A good story for an evenings viewing, some wonderful animals.

Oct 7, 2020Oct 2020

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Some very topical thoughts and advice.

Oct 19, 2020Oct 2020

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I had to make a delivery last week, it took me over our local landmark, the Humber Bridge. A little lane leads you down underneath for a not often seen view.

Natural history

Nov 21, 2020Nov 2020

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What happens to the world without humans, perhaps even radiation is not as bad as human beings.

Nov 24, 2020Nov 2020

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It is easy, to make seventeen friends in one year. But to keep one friend for seventeen years, that's an accomplishment. Anon

Nov 27, 2020Nov 2020

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On an industrial estate near me. It is located near the Humber river and the driftwood is local.

Natural history

Nov 27, 2020Nov 2020

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Although getting quite rare in many parts of the UK, hares are still fairly common near me, and in the next county of Yorkshire where this film is shot. I have often seen boxing, especially at the end of winter, but only twice really long bouts like ...

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Nov 28, 2020Nov 2020

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Posted this in Natural History as well, but it goes well here too. Communicating to embryos, even at a cellular level perhaps. The Smithsonian.

Natural history

Dec 3, 2020Dec 2020

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Some thing you don't think of as a climber, but animals alway throw out something new.

Natural history

Dec 17, 2020Dec 2020

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A resurrection story for just before Christmas, enjoy because this one is real. And some colour.

Natural history

Dec 19, 2020Dec 2020

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Seasonal reminder, for those in the North at least. How things survive the winter.

General & Hellos

Dec 21, 2020Dec 2020

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A familiar face but a new compilation, I was not familiar with several of these. Great comments on basic issues.

Natural history

Dec 22, 2020Dec 2020

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What even our smallest pieces of litter can do. Care counts.

Natural history

Dec 25, 2020Dec 2020

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Plant with an amazing story, or six, to tell, you may know the first bit, but stick with it I don't think you will be familiar with all of it.

Natural history

Dec 26, 2020Dec 2020

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The interesting story of an often overlooked group of mammals.

Natural history

Dec 27, 2020Dec 2020

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I love the stories that occur when, human culture and nature interact. This is a good example if slightly sad.

Natural history

Jan 13, 2021Jan 2021

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Just discovered and could be gone very soon, you wonder about how many things there are that we missed before we killed them. But enjoy the cute video, of mother and child.

Academic (e.g., Science)

Jan 20, 2021Jan 2021

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Despite the cold, the spring bulbs are still forcing their way up. The interesting point is that, unlike most plants which grow by dividing and increasing their cell numbers, the spiring bulbs increase their size, by inflating their existing cells ...

Natural history

Jan 28, 2021Jan 2021

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Just an interesting story about two plants. I love this guys videos, but they are not for you if you have difficulty with strong language. You have been warned.

Silly, Random & Fun

Jan 30, 2021Jan 2021

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A lot funnier (And shorter.) than a lot of atheist/agnostic/religious videos.

Natural history

Feb 3, 2021Feb 2021

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A seasonal look at birds in winter, and their amazing stories of survival. Some great and beautiful footage too.

Natural history

Feb 7, 2021Feb 2021

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In the UK we never quite had the equivalent of the US Audubon, but we do have Archibald Thorburn. Whose books on birds and mammals came out in the early twentieth century, they were much more populist, and cheap enough to be affordable, yet well ...

Action Advocates for our Environment and Ecology

Feb 9, 2021Feb 2021

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The slightly sad, but hopeful story of the brown bear today, things are changing, perhaps for the better.

General & Hellos

Feb 24, 2021Feb 2021

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Once religion was everything, you performed a ritual before you started work, or when you gave birth, you went to the shaman when ill, unhappy, in need of advice or in love. But over a long period of time better ways have been found to do almost ...

Feb 24, 2021Feb 2021

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No fog on the barrow downs. Therefore I went for a tour round the village to photograph trees, but ended with barrows as well. The first is a neolithic long barrow, called Cromwells plump seen end on, on the hill just above the village. A funny name ...

Natural history

Feb 26, 2021Feb 2021

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The wonderful sound of spring, coming soon in the north I hope, but the struggle ( literally ) for survival at it most brutal.

Natural history

Feb 28, 2021Feb 2021

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Predation, evolution always seems to find a way. And another reason to avoid Australia. LOL

Action Advocates for our Environment and Ecology

Mar 1, 2021Mar 2021

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A beautiful creature in need of, and getting help, and pictures of a wonderful environment too.

Dandelion Hunters

Mar 6, 2021Mar 2021

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Tiny very tiny.

Natural history

Mar 15, 2021Mar 2021

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Just one of those small encounters, that happen every day. But I wonder how long it will take them to learn to do this when a car comes.

Natural history

Mar 17, 2021Mar 2021

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Being different to the rest, may help.

Mar 23, 2021Mar 2021

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Suppose I told you that buying wine could help create jobs, protect wildlife and prevent pollution ? Here is the full story.

Natural history

Mar 25, 2021Mar 2021

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When one journey ends a bigger one begins. The return of one wolf. (Good ten mins read.)

Natural history

Apr 8, 2021Apr 2021

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It is interesting to think about the commonality of our senses, and how much similar animals, especially related ones like large mammals may share an appreciation of the world. I have posted some of these in music groups, but it is I think, the first...

Apr 15, 2021Apr 2021

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Interesting little short, about bears. Though it is also time for a little cute for cutes sake as well.

Natural history

Apr 18, 2021Apr 2021

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Its an ill wind they say, and some even gain from Covid.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Apr 24, 2021Apr 2021

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Its an ill wind they say. Thoughts about the possible benefits of the fall of the Roman Empire, especially to western civilization, and why it made Europe an innovative spring. (Warning to the sensitive, some of this historians conclusions are fairly...

Natural history

Apr 28, 2021Apr 2021

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One of the strangest creatures, just got even stranger it seems.

Apr 28, 2021Apr 2021

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First flush of green just coming on the trees, and a bright spring sky.

Philosophy & Meaning

May 2, 2021May 2021

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When we see a beautiful flower, bird or tree, and find wonder, we also of course appreciate, the wonderful patterns of DNA, programed by billions of years of natural selection, which must exist within the creature, which is expressing itself though ...

Natural history

May 6, 2021May 2021

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Taxonomy is a very subjective business, perhaps the most subjective in all science. (Which is perhaps why it is a first point of attack for creationists. ) But it is especially subjective at the outer edges, yet speculation is always fascinating, ...

Silly, Random & Fun

May 12, 2021May 2021

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I don't know how true this is, about Australian government. But it is funny, and it may stop those of you from the US feeling quite so alone. LOL

May 13, 2021May 2021

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More from Edward Fitzgerald, and Omar Khayyam.

Natural history

May 13, 2021May 2021

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Spring and the ferns start to emerge with: Matteuccia the shuttlecock fern by the water side, the furry fronds of Soft Shield Fern, Dryopteris affinis in the wood, and Osmunda the Royal Fern before the water.

May 13, 2021May 2021

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I posted this in the nature group, but since they are all in the garden, I though you would like to see them too. Spring and the ferns start to emerge with: Matteuccia the shuttlecock fern by the water side, the furry fronds of Soft Shield Fern, ...

Natural history

May 14, 2021May 2021

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Two videos about rewilding ancient forest. If you can find time to watch, they both contain some beautiful images. And the contrast between the two from opposite sides of the Atlantic where the problem are quite different is striking. ...

May 17, 2021May 2021

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Another one from E. Fitzgerald.

Natural history

May 18, 2021May 2021

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Ok, the basic click bait title is a bit silly, but the video introduces some really interesting studies.

May 19, 2021May 2021

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One of the dominant plants in our area is the Oil Seed Rape crop. The Bee Keepers love it because it give a good crop of honey too, but I am not so sure it is all that good for the bees, especially the wild bees, since it comes all at once in spring ...

Science, Health & History Tidbits

May 21, 2021May 2021

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So how much time have you got ? A light hearted look at the quirky subculture end of science.

May 28, 2021May 2021

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Just proving what a great thing for wildlife a garden pond is. A friend produced an automatic wildlife camera, and we placed it on my garden pond for a couple of nights. There are no real revelations so far, but I did manage a duck and the squirrel ...

Natural history

Jun 7, 2021Jun 2021

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Out for my bike ride, and I saw this perfect ecological division, with Red Champion on one side of the road, the slightly shadier side, and Cow Parsley dominating the other side.

Natural history

Jun 9, 2021Jun 2021

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This does not go into any great depth sadly. But just videos of human and bird interacting are worth watching for their own sake. Birds watching humans do magic tricks, as a test of intelligence. (Spoiler. They are better at seeing through slight of ...

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