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Archive for March, 2009

Fieldnotes: 29th March 2009 – The Blackthorn Winter

Posted in Birds, Fieldnotes, tagged , , , on March 29, 2009 | 5 Comments »

In Britain, the spring weather follows a fairly consistent pattern.  The warmer days of February and early March tend to be followed by a short cold spell at the end of March.  This cold snap coincides with the flowering of the blackthorn, hence its country name: the Blackthorn Winter. This year has followed the tradtional [...]

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All small beasts should wear bows in their tails

Posted in Background, tagged , , on March 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Well, it seems that spring is here at last.  I’ve been keeping busy travelling the world with work lately.  When I went away everything was frozen solid, and now that I’m back it’s thawed out, and allowed the first signs of spring to peep through. Snowdrops are flowering down the lane, and the hazel catkins [...]

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Of coincidence and kites

Posted in Thoughts and Musings on March 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »

As a psychologist I find coincidences strangely intriguing.  Since I started writing this blog they seem to happening regularly.  Take the sparrowhawks for example; or the time I mused about never having seen a long-tailed tit and then saw a whole flock of them the very next day. My last post was about the kites [...]

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High as a kite in Hong Kong (literally!)

Posted in That's not a badger!, tagged , , on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Things have been very quiet on the wildlife front lately because I’ve been working in Hong Kong.  It’s been a fantastic experience in one of the world’s most dynamic and exciting cities, but at the same time it’s nice to be back in the green fields and quiet lanes of rural Bedfordshire. Oddly enough, even [...]

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