Attenborough this week
14
May
Category Archives: nature
Magpies nesting
6
Apr
By middle of March a pair of magpies were nest building in a cherry tree at foot of our garden, two metres from a three-storey house whose east facing end wall overlooks the back of ours. That wall shelters the … Read More »
Magpies, jackals and animal altruism
3
Apr
I say, I say: why did the magpie help the hedgehog across the road? No, it’s not a joke. It happened for real, was caught on a dashcam and the footage uploaded to YouTube. So why did the magpie peck … Read More »
Great tits of Attenborough
25
Feb
By far the commonest tit – in fact the commonest non water bird, period – in Attenborough is the blue tit. Here’s one snapped yesterday as I took advantage of the sunshine, and highest temperatures in many a month, to … Read More »
The Trent in spate
1
Feb
The weir at Beeston, snapped soon after our move to Nottingham in November 2018. See these gates? Their concrete platform is two metres above the river. In this next image, taken in late January this year, we can just make … Read More »
Attenborough in snow
25
Jan
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In the sweet embrace of opacity
31
Dec
Attenborough on the last day of 2020 … A happy new year to one and all …
Our tern
5
Dec
Attenborough today
Nuthatch and other high fliers
4
Dec
Attenborough on the first day of the last month of the first year of the third decade of the third millennium. *
Top cat
23
Nov
This presented itself as a screen saver when I fired up this morning. And this is one of my own, shot – in a manner of speaking – at Saigon Zoo, Christmas Eve 2012.