Search results for query: *

Maybe Stig, or they’re part of a left wing conspiracy to prevent Bob from burning fossil fuels, it’s open for debate.

Seem to be overwinterering more often here as well. Taken a couple of days ago.

Good pic Stig, we had some storks stop off for a pit stop in a field the other day. Road too busy to stop and snap though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27s_gull Inland gulls.....who’d a thunk it?

I never see one here and I’m 100k inland.

Gulls? I thought you were a million miles inland?

Ahhh.

Black bird = bird which is black Blackbird= Turdus Merula, member of thrush family. But you probably knew that.

I think an etymologist would have been rather confused about your questions! I saw on a David Attenborough thing about dung beetles and star navigation a few years back, mind blowing!

The early arrivers always look a bit bewildered like "wtf am I doing here this early"

We have what we call swallows hirondo rustica. The similar species are called house martins Delichon urbicum. Swallows nest inside buildings, martins under the eaves outside.

According to google you do have the same swallows as us, ours overwinter in Africa.

It's about this time of year I look out for the first swallow. It's kind of a big deal for me. Here's last year's, April the 1st. (Taken on an iPhone)

Frogs make a lot of noise in my pond at night, I'd welcome a heron.

Brilliant link!

Anyway, it's a happy ending

I've noticed that tree names in Dutch often resemble English. Oak =Eik. Birch=berk ash= Es In French chêne, bouleau and frêne. I know Dutch Isn't Danish but they're sort of Germanic aren't they?

Just checked "brud" on a translation site no animals mentioned, Hermelyn or something for stoat, and vaessel or something for weasel. Looks like the English word for weasel comes from Northern Europe. Hermelyn =ermine

Not to be confused with a stoat, which becomes an ermine in winter, in northern climes at least. Very similar but the weasel is much smaller without the black tip to its tail.

No it's genuine, it's on the bbc website with a back story.