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Cappuccino..
Cappuccino..
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Orchids - spotted
Orchids - spotted

Spotted orchid

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ants and aphids
ants and aphids
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Birds.

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Owlets
Owlets
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Eagles nest?
Eagles nest?

The eagles nest has landed ..

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Anting ….
Anting ….

Red ants

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Veggies.

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Time for the bean business..
Time for the bean business..

The bean business begins ..

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‘Eating the rainbow’
‘Eating the rainbow’

Seasonal home-grown vegetable soup with split peas..

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Totally tomatoes..
Totally tomatoes..

Tomatoes

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Eat Yourself Healthy.

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Mammals.

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Surveying for hazel dormice
Surveying for hazel dormice
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Hush. Keep it quiet.
Hush. Keep it quiet.
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Hazel dormice …
Hazel dormice …

Hazel dormouse awaiting weighing and being checked for a micro-chip.

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Invertebrates.

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ants and aphids
ants and aphids
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Let’s do more for invertebrates
Let’s do more for invertebrates
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.. a fly-sized pocket lobster
.. a fly-sized pocket lobster

Currant clearwing moth

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Herpetofauna.

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At last, frog spawn …
At last, frog spawn …

A tangle of mating frogs

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I become a boar …
I become a boar …
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When a day can’t get any better..
When a day can’t get any better..

A common lizard emerges from under the settee and sets off at speed across the carpet. 

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Meadow.

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Orchids - spotted
Orchids - spotted

Spotted orchid

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Seeding the meadow
Seeding the meadow

Cowslip

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welcome rain..
welcome rain..

Today the orchard meadow was strimmed and the hay mounded.

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Seeds.

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Wildflower seed sowing…
Wildflower seed sowing…

A good drop of rain forecast. Warm weather. Optimal for casting wildflower seeds.

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The memory maple..
The memory maple..

Field maple (acer campestre) is a pretty little native tree. One of my favourites. And I’ve always nurtured little native trees and shrubs wherever I can find them…

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Mullered..
Mullered..

I’m fascinated by yellow rattle.

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Compost.

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Poignant
Poignant

The cycle of the season turns and there is the satisfaction that all that time composting grass and weeds and cardboard and paper and kitchen waste has been productive.

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Luxurious
Luxurious

Several days of morning frost. Despite the frost, moles are active. Many molehills and moles’ surface tunnels.

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Soil conditioner extraordinaire!
Soil conditioner extraordinaire!

Vital in the organic no-dig garden. Browns & greens mixed. Layered up and turned once.

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Ponds.

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Four-spotted
Four-spotted

Newcomers to George’s pond - four-spotted chasers

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Orchard pond
Orchard pond

Ponds bring great richness to gardens. Thousands of ponds have been lost due to the 'improvement' of agricultural land - to the great detriment of wildlife.

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Frost
Frost

Waxwings and George’s Pond in the frost…

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In Bloom.

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golden globes ..
golden globes ..

Aconite

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Fleabane
Fleabane

Small copper on Mexican fleabane

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Water mint..
Water mint..

Water mint (mentha aquatica) is now playing a blinder around the pond.

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Climate Change.

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Climate change ‘a hoax’
Climate change ‘a hoax’

Atmospheric carbon

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Have we already lost the war..?
Have we already lost the war..?

Hubert Reeves has it. ‘Man is at war with Nature. And if he wins he loses’.

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Realising a vision for building biomass and recovering nature…
Realising a vision for building biomass and recovering nature…

I’ve got this vision that calls to mind the memory of the massive Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station.

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