#30dayswild — Public Fediverse posts
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Have lost track of the days cos of #painsomnia but here's a few things I've managed to do recently:
Weeding tool arrived, so I've hooked out unwanted plants in the raised bed & used solar power (heatwave) to destroy them.
Created a hedgehog and/or other wildlife watering hole by putting on the patio my least presentable ceramic pasta bowl.
First harvest: cut chives for potato salad - tasty.
Held off planting out my seedlings cos of said heatwave: they're hanging in there:
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Day 15 of #30dayswild
Out in the car to visit a group of artists & makers taking part in #Bucks Open Studios. I had to miss this annual event last year when I was mending from a #TKR .
#drivebybotany again, featuring the #pavementplants and #wallplants along a long residential road:
Field poppy
Erigeron karvinskianus aka Mexican fleabane (garden escapee)
Wall germander
Hollyhock (garden escapee)
Eschscholtzia California aka California poppy (garden escapee)
Centranthus ruber aka red valerian (garden escapee)
Yarrow
Field columbine -
Day 15 of #30dayswild
Out in the car to visit a group of artists & makers taking part in #Bucks Open Studios. I had to miss this annual event last year when I was mending from a #TKR .
#drivebybotany again, featuring the #pavementplants and #wallplants along a long residential road:
Field poppy
Erigeron karvinskianus aka Mexican fleabane (garden escapee)
Wall germander
Hollyhock (garden escapee)
Eschscholtzia California aka California poppy (garden escapee)
Centranthus ruber aka red valerian (garden escapee)
Yarrow
Field columbine -
Day 15 of #30dayswild
Out in the car to visit a group of artists & makers taking part in #Bucks Open Studios. I had to miss this annual event last year when I was mending from a #TKR .
#drivebybotany again, featuring the #pavementplants and #wallplants along a long residential road:
Field poppy
Erigeron karvinskianus aka Mexican fleabane (garden escapee)
Wall germander
Hollyhock (garden escapee)
Eschscholtzia California aka California poppy (garden escapee)
Centranthus ruber aka red valerian (garden escapee)
Yarrow
Field columbine -
Day 15 of #30dayswild
Out in the car to visit a group of artists & makers taking part in #Bucks Open Studios. I had to miss this annual event last year when I was mending from a #TKR .
#drivebybotany again, featuring the #pavementplants and #wallplants along a long residential road:
Field poppy
Erigeron karvinskianus aka Mexican fleabane (garden escapee)
Wall germander
Hollyhock (garden escapee)
Eschscholtzia California aka California poppy (garden escapee)
Centranthus ruber aka red valerian (garden escapee)
Yarrow
Field columbine -
Day 14 of #30dayswild
It was #wwkip day, so I sat out with my #knit group in the sunny patio garden of my local pub.
Craft, company, fresh air :)
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Day 12 of #30dayswild
With the help of a friend, I bought several bags of #peatfree compost to fill the raised bed at my new home.
I'll plant the #achocha , herbs, sweet peas & other annual flowers for #pollinators (and my pleasure).
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Day 5 of #30DaysWild
The Giant Bolivian #Achocha seedlings are getting their true leaves.
When (if) they flower, there will be a good food source for #pollinators , especially #hoverfly species.
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Day 1 of #30DaysWild
In a new home & a year on from my first #TKR, I'm keen to explore & share my findings.
Very close to home, here's a couple of plants for #pollinators : bolting parsley, soon to flower, and heavily nibbled raspberry. Left behind by previous tenant, so my gain :) -
Day 28 of #30DaysWild #Nature #UK
Today is 4 weeks and 3 days since I had a #TKR (total knee replacement).
I've rested to let my body heal, I've worked at my #physio exercises, gone to classes at the hospital, done my homework.
I know we are all part of nature, but today I really *felt* it, both emotionally & physically.
Today I experienced a little of how a bird might feel on fledging: I felt the wind on my face as I drove again 🥰
Just two streets, to visit a dear friend who supports me throughout, to beam and shriek and babble, "I did it! I flew!"
NB: If I could choose active travel, I would, but chronic conditions limit my mobility.
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Day 25 of #30DaysWild #Nature #UK
It's 4 weeks today I had a #TKR (total knee replacement) and I'm amazed at my body's ability to heal & repair.
Back for another #physio session at the hospital: I silently greet the Scots pine trees every time.
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Day 20 of #30DaysWild #Nature #UK
Another outing after #TKR (total knee replacement) for wound dressing.
I had time at the bus stop to enjoy the sunny day and trees in full leaf.
Certainly didn't expect to see cast herons as gate finials!
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Day 18 of #30DaysWild #Nature #UK
Three weeks ago today, I had #TKR total knee replacement surgery.
Today I went to #physio at the hospital and even managed a tiny wild moment afterwards :)
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Day 14 of #30DaysWild #Nature #UK
I focussed on my physio today, a vital element of recovery from #TKR (total knee replacement) as everyone delights in telling me.
Looking out of the window, seeking distraction, I noticed it was very much a day of sunshine and sharp showers, sometimes at once.
I know this weather quirk as 'a monkeys wedding', an expression I think I learned in South Africa. It's also called 'a foxes wedding' or 'a jackals wedding', mainly in India and Japan respectively.
Its proper name is 'sunshower' which is a bit obvious.
Bring on the celebrating animals!
Do you have a local or favourite term?
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Day 13 of #30DaysWild #Nature #UK
Second outing since returning from hospital after #TKR (total knee replacement).
Supported by the same friend, a trip by taxi back to hospital for my first #physio session.
I saw:
Many yellow wildflowers (too fast to ID)
Three young starlings
Four wood pigeons
The town formal garden, with a stylised maroon poppy in carpet bedding and informal nodding Field poppies. -
Day 12 of #30DaysWild #Nature #UK
Today was the first day I've left my home since returning from hospital after #TKR (total knee replacement).
Supported by a friend, I travelled by taxi to have my surgical clips removed.
On the short journey, I saw:
Two Red Kites
A crow
A #wildflower verge packed with Ox-eyed daisies and a spatter of Field poppies.
A boundary hedge including Elder in flower and Dog roses.Russet, black, white, red, cream, pink 😍
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Day 10 of #30DaysWild #Nature #UK
Struggling a bit today with lack of sleep, pain & stiffness following #TKR
However, it's turned out to be a sunny evening and I'm enjoying #birdsong of blackbirds (Turdus merula) with the percussive cheeping of house sparrows (Passer domesticus).
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Day 4 of #30DaysWild #nature #UK
While having an ice & elevation session on my #TKR , I enjoyed listening to many squabbling jackdaws (Corvus monedula) among the chimneypots
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Day 1 of #30DaysWild
A very different view this time. So many different greens of tree species!
This is from my hospital, where I have had my first total knee replacement #TKR - I'm a step closer to walking in nature again 💚
Thank you #NHS 💙 -
There are several trefoil-leaved plants growing in my garden, including
Lesser hop trefoil (C: Meillionen Felen Fechan, L: Trifolium dubium),
White clover (C: Meillionen Wen, L: Trifolium repens),
and Red clover (C: Meillionen Goch, L: Trifolium pratense),
but my favourite is Common bird's-foot trefoil (C: Pys y Ceirw, L: Lotus corniculatus), named for the shape of its seed pods, also known as Eggs and bacon because of its colouring. I like them because they're bright, native pollinators like them, and they can out compete lawn grasses (although this means they can be an invasive introduced species elsewhere in the world). -
A large, rusty, rear horseshoe with quarter clips and square headed nails. No earlier than 1830s but likely more recent. Found in woodland on a disused and overgrown farm and logging trackway while litterpicking. A lucky find.
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Bugle is one of few truly blue native wildflowers in the UK, especially when growing in shade, although it can turn much redder in sunshine. It's an important nectar source for the pearl-bordered and small pearl-bordered fritillary butterflies. Botanical Latin = Ajuga reptans. Cymraeg = Glesyn y Coed (Blues of the Woods), Bual (Bugle, I think?), Corn Glas (Blue Horn), and Glesyn y Mynydd (Blues of the Mountains), amongst others.
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Leaded window in the upper storey of an old bottling works, with some panes of rondel glass, and bonus buddleia plants apparently growing out of the rotting wooden windowsill (probably covered in peeling lead paint!). The building is 1850s but parts of the window could be older architectural salvage.
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Saw three male dunnocks together and assumed it was an adult and two of this year's offspring, because I haven't seen dunnocks flock in breeding season, but apparently adult dunnocks will help feed all fledged young within their foraging range, also tmi RSPB:
"For females, that may mean mating with more than one male, in the hope that they'll both help rear her chicks. Clearly, that doesn't suit the males. So before mating, they may try to remove a rival's sperm by pecking the female's rear end (the cloaca - through which both poo and eggs exit) and encourage her to eject it! However, what works for one pair of dunnocks might not work for another. There are several different strategies they might use:
* A male paired with a female (monogamy)
* More than one male paired with the same female (polyandry)
* A male paired with more than one female (polygyny)
* 'Pairs' with two males and two females (polygynandry)
And it's all going on in your shrubbery..." -
I don't usually bother the fossil Friday tag with common Wenlockian marine fossils, but for the second of 30 Days Wild, the Wildlife Trusts' annual event, meet Big Dave the Dawsonoceras who was an orthoceratoid (like a squid in a conical shell) who swam in a warm shallow sea about 430 million years ago. Big Dave was a peak predator in his time. After Dave died and his shell came to rest on the seabed it became home to many smaller encrusting colony animals such as bryozoans. Fossilised Big Dave is about 10x5x4cm and the largest Little Dave bryozoan covers about 5x1.5cm of the surface. You can see the internal structure of one of one colony of encrusting animals in a photo below. I found Big Dave when I was walking and litterpicking in the woods. He was sticking out of a muddy bank of glacial till, which around here is a type of soil-with-rocks deposited by glaciers at least 150 thousand years ago.
#30DaysWild #larking #WenlockWednesday #fossil #fossils #FossilFriday
