Cosmos in bloom, Shadyside, 5 Aug 2024 (photograph by way of Kate St. John) 10 August 2024 This week a flower lawn stuck my consideration with brilliant yellow-orange cosmos flora. The vegetation have been in … Read more
Some of the highlights of my summer season vacations used to be a week-long climbing shuttle with two birding pals I met ultimate 12 months whilst volunteering on the chook observatory on Heligoland. We deliberate … Read more
Blue dasher male (photograph from Wikimedia Commons) 9 August 2024 Two weeks in the past you could have noticed movies at the Web of a big swarm of dragonflies at a Rhode Island seashore on … Read more
I used to be amused to learn Sara Jentsch’s contemporary diatribe on gulls: Why I despise Seagulls: A Story of Humiliation. It was once encouraging to find that it’s no longer simply in Britain that … Read more
An acrobatic Barn Swallow within the skies above Nepal. Photograph via Deepak Budhathoki / Macaulay Library. Our planet has a bounty of birds—greater than 11,000 species in all. However on a world scale, maximum have … Read more
Some birds are particularly thrilling, as a result of they’re so arduous to look. Others are strangely gorgeous, or in all probability, simply undeniable abnormal. And a couple of are each. (Once they if truth … Read more
Banded or sycamore tussock moth, Halysidota sp. (picture from Wikimedia Commons) 8 August 2024 Worm Season continues this month as caterpillars pupate into grownup moths and butterflies. What species have we discovered? Step one is … Read more
Take a snappy take a look at the breeding distribution of Eu birds and you’ll see that there are a stunning collection of species which might be limited to the Balkans. (The Balkans, via the … Read more
Noticed lanternflies alongside the 3 Rivers Heritage Path, Herr’s Island backchannel, 3 Aug 2024 (photograph by way of Kate St. John) 7 August 2024 Noticed lanternflies (SLF, Lycorma delicatula) have been a deadly disease in … Read more
Whilst visiting the town of Corpus Christi in Texas in November 2023, we had been advised about an extraordinary chicken within the middle of the downtown. We went to the world the place it have … Read more