I am reading the New Scientist magazine and there are yet several more articles on climate change. One of the article raised the question that most of us would probably have considered at one point. Does it make a difference whether I walk or drive? Or if I leave my tv and computers on standby [...]

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These days Robin is not coming over for mealworms as frequently as before, when he has his children to feed. It’s likely that he’s not short of food now that it is summer (I think) with plenty of insects around.
Talking about insects, we recently bought three berries plants, Holly, Raspberry and Blackcurrant, to help boost [...]

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These are a few photos taken when I met up with Peter yesterday at White Knights Lake. I was intending to take photos of the various young chicks that were born there. But sadly many of them died. Particularly, according to Peter, the chicks of Mandarin, two broods of 15 and 3, all died as [...]

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After days of “planning”, I finally got down to bringing the chunky SLR camera with me today to take some photos of birds on my way to work. I very much regretted for not doing it yesterday, due to rain, as all five mute swan chicks were seen carried by one of their parents on [...]

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This is definitely the heaviest snowfall I’ve seen in the UK, in almost 10 years I’ve been here! We have experienced one of the warmest month in January not that long ago. And today we have heavy snowfall all around the UK. Isn’t it interesting how global warming is affecting the weather pattern?

This was taken [...]

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