Goodbye to March & Hello April
The final Ostara #DailyNature Community challenge blog is now up for reading/ listening along
Complete with a positive environmental news roundup 💚
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#Nature #NaturePoetry #NatureWriting #Finifugal #Spring #Water
The warbler season is well underway at the #weedypond
Many birds are dropping in to wash & refuel after their long migration journeys.
Can't wait to see the first Blackcap on camera.
Old favourites are still present of course.
#Chiffchaffs #Wrens #DailyNature 🦉
From the Dorset Dunnock Appreciation Society.
In slomo... what a beauty.
#Birds #UkWildlife #DailyNature
A summer day, freshened by light showers. The bow of the Erica can just be seen round a bend in the canal. She is (rightly) dwarfed by the dense green foliage and magenta flair of loosestrife. In the foreground a mother mallard shepherds two of her ducklings.
The canal doesn't choose
Who will come and enjoy
Its waters
But it does choose
Those who will stay.
#DailyNature #ukcanals #poetry #nature #life
Church windows strapped to the back of a chocolate mining bee, fuzzily grasping pillowy petals of a blackthorn blooming tree, is greeted by the windy echos of robin and chiffchaff.
#NatureWriting #BloomScrolling #DailyNature #Bees
“Place a sprig in a can and hope for the best”
On this day in 1957, following a nature - food documentary voiced by Richard Attenborough people phoned the BBC looking for advice on growing spaghetti trees.
Results were not reported.
01/04 #dailynature #naturewriting
Today is the last day of #dailynature challenge and I want to thank all that consistently brought joy to this month. You may or not have sensed that I have been all over the place (physically and organisationally) but I really appreciate this little nature corner of the world 💚 what a privelege!
#DailyNature
Denim sky pockets bulge full of blackbirds and robins. One in see saw the other twiddles and trills. Lullabies for children who forget the sun comes again.
I thought this month only had thirty days, then remembered the extra one. 'see, we'll still be here tomorrow' they sing.
A close-up of a pale green-yellow coloured Brimstone butterfly. Its long proboscis is probing a yellow Dandelion flower
What a wonderfully uplifting afternoon! Sunshine, warmth and lots of insects whizzing about.
I wonder if there’s a word to describe the joy brought by the arrival of spring?
This unusually approachable Brimstone was a highlight.
#DailyNature #Butterfly #Spring #JoyofNature
A drake (male) mallard duck, looks straight at us on water turned to liquid light. Even his magnificent Spring plumage is dimmed by the dazzling light of sunshine on water.
March bows out with unaccustomed warmth and good grace. A playful nor'westerly holds on to our humour and casts a sparkle of ripples on the canal. A kingfisher and heron should be here. But they're not.
They are, however, elsewhere, and wherever that is, they're magnificent.
#DailyNature #ukcanals
Watching. From kitchen window. The tree creeper (certhia familiaris) creeps, weaves, hangs, spirals around the Apple tree bole. It was movement, seemingly of the bark itself, that gave away ‘ki’ presence before id of white belly and tweezer bill.
🌱 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 31/03
3/3 The peak time for feather gathering in my North Dorset garden is usually the first 2 weeks of April.
As the year progresses it's satisfying to see the offspring that you have helped bring into the world come back & develop their life skills.
#UKWildlife #UKBirds #DailyNature #Ornithology
Two wrens, and a third, trills and recitative in soprano coloratura, across damped fields gauzy with drizzle. A skylark's counter-melody, up in the gods, to goldfinches' flamenco tambourine-jangle; so many little singers, none on the same page. Spring, warming up, despite the grey cold. #DailyNature
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ruffledfeathers.
Here we have the Wren, post-bathing, attempting to put those ruffled feathers back into place, Houdini-like, before your very eyes.
Plenty of preen gland oil applied.
#Wrens #Birds #DailyNature @drrjwarren.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social
Sometimes,
The canal is silent
Biding time
Keeping counsel.
Don't ask
Let things be.
At other times,
It reaches out
With whispers
That sing soft and sad
Holding memories
Of old friends.
#DailyNature #swans #ukcanals #naturepoetry
Deluge shatters new blooms, cherry, apple, honeysuckle blossoms, petal tip in grip, survivors parading on rainbows, spells cast from gold lipped evening, dusk, darkness, rolling over and on again.
#DailyNature
A pale pink and white flowering Toothwort spike rising out of the ground
Toothwort looking magnificent for this week’s #WildflowerHour
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A little different adventure with nature today
#dailynature
Looking through the window into the garden.
Some days, nature seems further away, as though there were a window between you and the world. #DailyNature The birds are in their world today and I am in mine.
The sun segments the bed into an orange. I sit on one wedge, candied by spring. My work on a darker, brooding slice. A spider drops like a jewel thief onto the keyboard's metal jaw. When I'm watching TV - the spider stays, instead it leaves. I hear imaginerary eyes rolling on exit...
#DailyNature
A pile of 12 clear plastic insect collection pots with white lids on a patio. There is a brown moth in each of the pots
First garden moth trap of the year resulted in a pile of middle-sized brown moths! Let’s see how many I can remember from last year… 🤔
#MothsMatter #TeamMoth
#DailyNature
'There is a season turn, turn,turn.
A time to build up, a time to break down'...
Goldfinches in the early Autumn, a coming together.
Linnets in the early Spring, about to go their own ways.
#DailyNature #UKWildlife #Birds #TheByrds #Finches
The sound of crow song
Through the slant of rain
Soothes my mind
After a restless night
#DailyNature #naturepoetry
Lap-wing, Flap-wing
Black-wing, Silver-wing
Dawn-lit, Spring Pee-wit
💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
Large willow, shot taken from below a thick assembly of twigs , blowing in different directions.
#DailyNature & #photography
Under the willow tree
March 2026
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The old willow in the park wears her twigs like golden hair, letting it dance in the wind.
#Berlin #trees #willows #nature
Caution Wet Wren at Work!
A slomo view, (x10 times⬇️), of troglodytes - straight out of the bath & back to work.
'If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it'
#DailyNature #weedypond
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A sky mottling from greys to cadmium white, moves in still shot, trees black reach towards it
Clouds the chin of a fin whale,
Impasto striped
pearl glades in pebble swathes,
a single cluster cauliflower
unfurls it's slow body:
caterpillar
dragon
soup.
Air prepared for show,
Listen to what you can see.
#DailyNature
#NatureWriting #NaturePoetry #Poetry #Sky #Nature #Photography #Colour
Wind-buffeted Cowslips.
Despites the strong, cold, northwesterly and occasional showers of hail, these chalkland Cowslips were standing up to the ordeal very well.
The vernal are prepared for the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune...
#DailyNature #Wildflowers
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
Last of the large winter Linnet flocks - twittering finches from yesterday.
Any day now they will be dispersing to find their April breeding territories.
Lovely to see them in such abundance - a less common thing to witness these days.
#Finches #UKWildlife #DailyNature
My Good Morning #DailyNature post from Marbury, Cheshire. Sunrise on the Llangollen Canal. The #FirstBirdOfMyDay today was a noisy back-door robin, followed by blackbird, barn owl, wren, thrush, crow, Fieldfare, yellowhammer… lots to see and listen to early in the day!
