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Rodents and corvids
Yes, the tiny squirrel's harassing the crows again.

Crone
Sep 22, 20232 min read


From the large ecosystem to the tiny
Thoughts on books and canids.

Crone
Sep 20, 20233 min read


Happiness, more or less...
Lucky cats, lucky me.

Crone
Sep 19, 20231 min read


It's a kind of magic...
The five wands.

Crone
Sep 18, 20232 min read


Critter signals
This is a rat's hole. I saw it during the tidy up of my garden inspired by my next door neighbour cutting back our boundary hedge. I have...

Crone
Sep 17, 20232 min read


What do we need to know in order to care?
Virginia Morell's Animal Wise is really very good. Let me start off with that. I'm listening to it and it is well researched, detailed...

Crone
Sep 16, 20234 min read


Summoning
An over and under post.

Crone
Sep 15, 20232 min read


A gathering
Female orb spider.

Crone
Sep 14, 20232 min read


You'll be wishing for the robin...
No kingfishers in sight.

Crone
Sep 13, 20232 min read


Puffed up
So sorry about the repeated robin posts... this one does explore some new ideas though...

Crone
Sep 12, 20232 min read


Nothing new under the sun!
The other week I was thinking about bringing various different animal songs into a comparable tempo and wondering how that might sound....

Crone
Sep 11, 20231 min read


Lost my bottle
Nice old bottle - said PRAED WELLINGBOROUGH on it.

Crone
Sep 11, 20231 min read


Dichotomies?
It’s chainsaw season again. A team day at the Reserve. I cut down three small pine trees and was glad that my “gob cuts” were straight,...

Crone
Sep 10, 20232 min read


Provisions for the songster
Back to the world of SoB.

Crone
Sep 9, 20232 min read


Day of transformation
OK, that's a headline, the story's just a filler.

Crone
Sep 8, 20232 min read


Song, subsong, sound and a squirrel
During the bat-walk, I had a brainwave. One of the volunteers was a marine ecologist. His job is mitigation for marine mammals during...

Crone
Sep 7, 20232 min read


Bat-spedition
Moonshine over Woodwalton Fen

Crone
Sep 6, 20232 min read


Time for a song
A morning with Son of Bob. Not captured on film: SoB getting chased up the path by a blue tit; SoB engaging in the community alarm calls...

Crone
Sep 5, 20232 min read


What do the willows say?
A week or so earlier, I went into the willows on the side of the reservoir as I had heard a kingfisher. Once of the side of the water, I...

Crone
Sep 4, 20233 min read


The female of the species
...is more deadly than the male.

Crone
Sep 3, 20232 min read
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