#natureobservations — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #natureobservations, aggregated by home.social.
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Nocturnal migratory birds follow rhythm of the moon
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nocturnal-migratory-birds-follow-rhythm-moon
#HackerNews #nocturnalbirds #migratorybirds #moonrhythm #birdmigration #natureobservations
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Testing out my monocle and honestly the most longlasting memorable observation was the cianopica (Azure-winged magpie)!
Oh, and of course, the Eurasian griffon vulture!
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Can't help but notice that sparrows seem to be getting much more brazen about coming inside buildings to hunt for food. I've been noticing this in various parts of Aotearoa over the last month or 2. Is it just me?
If not, I wonder what environmental change might have promoted this change in behaviour? Have the conditions been particularly good for sparrow breeding over the last few months? Are their normal outdoor food supplies being reduced somehow?
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With over 9 million Australians on iNaturalist uploading 10,000 sightings daily, the platform is crucial for monitoring.
In 2023 alone, 1,442 records triggered biosecurity alerts, showcasing the effectiveness of citizen scientists.
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From "Difference Between #OrganicGardening and #Permaculture" by April, published in 2018:
"Permaculture design has:
- Focus on closing the nutrient and water loop by using waste, and reducing the dependence on inputs.
- Creation of healthier soil and diversity of produce.
- Responsibility for waste. There is an aim to eliminate waste. i.e. no excess nitrogen nor weed seed, released.
- Variety keeps residents engaged and excited about growing their food.
- Imitating nature by conserving the soil and water, and genetic capital. There is an intensive use of space. Plants are allowed to set seed and are inter-planted for pest control. You are unlikely to see food plants in rows. The permaculture site will look more like a #FoodForest with some open glades full of herbs and perennials.
- Optimisation of natural energies, e.g. wind, dust, leaves, bird droppings.
- Nutritious food and habitat for people AND native animals and birds.
- Dependence on observation. Permaculture design is a mixed technology. Bill Mollison (co-founder of permaculture movement) said that permaculture, like a bicycle, it is adaptable and has great potential but is only as good as the user.
- Minimal risk. If we fail at permaculture, nature simply takes over. The soil will continue to heal, the forests grow and someone else can step in to rebuild our efforts."Read more:
https://permaculturevisions.com/difference-between-organic-gardening-and-permaculture/
#SolarPunkSunday #Gardening #NatureObservations #NatureBasedLearning -
Excerpt from "What is #Solarpunk Everything you need to know about solarpunk, how it connects to #ClimateJustice and how to get involved with the movement" by Andrew Sage, published January 16, 2023:
How does solarpunk relate to #degrowth?
"The overlap between solarpunk and the degrowth movement can be found in the understanding that #capitalism’s built-in imperative to grow, expand, exploit, and profit endlessly cannot continue in the context of a #FinitePlanet.
"The degrowth movement is about rejecting the #GlobalCapitalist system’s pursuit of endless growth and advocating for a world based in care, solidarity, and autonomy in which our social and ecological well-being are at the forefront.
"Degrowth means #ClimateJustice and a good life for all within #PlanetaryBoundaries.
"Although aspects of solarpunk and degrowth may benefit from particular government policies, these movements cannot rely on the state. The state is structurally unsuited to ecological restoration, and can even potentially operate as an obstacle.
"The inherently violent and ecocidal character that has marked states from their earliest inception and up to their present incarnations does not lend itself to our liberation. Top-down approaches have consistently failed where local approaches to #rewilding have succeeded.
"The solarpunk movement emphasises local power, local organising, and local #autonomy because the world we envision cannot be imposed from above.
"A forest is more than its trees; ecological restoration requires intimate knowledge with the local nuances of the land, the water cycle, and the network of microorganisms, fungi, plants, and animals that sustain it.
"Our planet will be healed on the #grassroots level. We will need to circumvent the impositions of those in power through direct action to bring a solarpunk world into being."
https://shado-mag.com/all/what-is-solarpunk/
#AntiCapitalism #Degrowth #TheLimitsToGrowth #Sustainability #Ecosystem #NatureBasedLearning #NatureObservations #SharingEconomy -
Excerpt from "What is #Solarpunk Everything you need to know about solarpunk, how it connects to #ClimateJustice and how to get involved with the movement" by Andrew Sage, published January 16, 2023:
How does solarpunk relate to #degrowth?
"The overlap between solarpunk and the degrowth movement can be found in the understanding that #capitalism’s built-in imperative to grow, expand, exploit, and profit endlessly cannot continue in the context of a #FinitePlanet.
"The degrowth movement is about rejecting the #GlobalCapitalist system’s pursuit of endless growth and advocating for a world based in care, solidarity, and autonomy in which our social and ecological well-being are at the forefront.
"Degrowth means #ClimateJustice and a good life for all within #PlanetaryBoundaries.
"Although aspects of solarpunk and degrowth may benefit from particular government policies, these movements cannot rely on the state. The state is structurally unsuited to ecological restoration, and can even potentially operate as an obstacle.
"The inherently violent and ecocidal character that has marked states from their earliest inception and up to their present incarnations does not lend itself to our liberation. Top-down approaches have consistently failed where local approaches to #rewilding have succeeded.
"The solarpunk movement emphasises local power, local organising, and local #autonomy because the world we envision cannot be imposed from above.
"A forest is more than its trees; ecological restoration requires intimate knowledge with the local nuances of the land, the water cycle, and the network of microorganisms, fungi, plants, and animals that sustain it.
"Our planet will be healed on the #grassroots level. We will need to circumvent the impositions of those in power through direct action to bring a solarpunk world into being."
https://shado-mag.com/all/what-is-solarpunk/
#AntiCapitalism #Degrowth #TheLimitsToGrowth #Sustainability #Ecosystem #NatureBasedLearning #NatureObservations #SharingEconomy -
Excerpt from "What is #Solarpunk Everything you need to know about solarpunk, how it connects to #ClimateJustice and how to get involved with the movement" by Andrew Sage, published January 16, 2023:
How does solarpunk relate to #degrowth?
"The overlap between solarpunk and the degrowth movement can be found in the understanding that #capitalism’s built-in imperative to grow, expand, exploit, and profit endlessly cannot continue in the context of a #FinitePlanet.
"The degrowth movement is about rejecting the #GlobalCapitalist system’s pursuit of endless growth and advocating for a world based in care, solidarity, and autonomy in which our social and ecological well-being are at the forefront.
"Degrowth means #ClimateJustice and a good life for all within #PlanetaryBoundaries.
"Although aspects of solarpunk and degrowth may benefit from particular government policies, these movements cannot rely on the state. The state is structurally unsuited to ecological restoration, and can even potentially operate as an obstacle.
"The inherently violent and ecocidal character that has marked states from their earliest inception and up to their present incarnations does not lend itself to our liberation. Top-down approaches have consistently failed where local approaches to #rewilding have succeeded.
"The solarpunk movement emphasises local power, local organising, and local #autonomy because the world we envision cannot be imposed from above.
"A forest is more than its trees; ecological restoration requires intimate knowledge with the local nuances of the land, the water cycle, and the network of microorganisms, fungi, plants, and animals that sustain it.
"Our planet will be healed on the #grassroots level. We will need to circumvent the impositions of those in power through direct action to bring a solarpunk world into being."
https://shado-mag.com/all/what-is-solarpunk/
#AntiCapitalism #Degrowth #TheLimitsToGrowth #Sustainability #Ecosystem #NatureBasedLearning #NatureObservations #SharingEconomy -
Excerpt from "What is #Solarpunk Everything you need to know about solarpunk, how it connects to #ClimateJustice and how to get involved with the movement" by Andrew Sage, published January 16, 2023:
How does solarpunk relate to #degrowth?
"The overlap between solarpunk and the degrowth movement can be found in the understanding that #capitalism’s built-in imperative to grow, expand, exploit, and profit endlessly cannot continue in the context of a #FinitePlanet.
"The degrowth movement is about rejecting the #GlobalCapitalist system’s pursuit of endless growth and advocating for a world based in care, solidarity, and autonomy in which our social and ecological well-being are at the forefront.
"Degrowth means #ClimateJustice and a good life for all within #PlanetaryBoundaries.
"Although aspects of solarpunk and degrowth may benefit from particular government policies, these movements cannot rely on the state. The state is structurally unsuited to ecological restoration, and can even potentially operate as an obstacle.
"The inherently violent and ecocidal character that has marked states from their earliest inception and up to their present incarnations does not lend itself to our liberation. Top-down approaches have consistently failed where local approaches to #rewilding have succeeded.
"The solarpunk movement emphasises local power, local organising, and local #autonomy because the world we envision cannot be imposed from above.
"A forest is more than its trees; ecological restoration requires intimate knowledge with the local nuances of the land, the water cycle, and the network of microorganisms, fungi, plants, and animals that sustain it.
"Our planet will be healed on the #grassroots level. We will need to circumvent the impositions of those in power through direct action to bring a solarpunk world into being."
https://shado-mag.com/all/what-is-solarpunk/
#AntiCapitalism #Degrowth #TheLimitsToGrowth #Sustainability #Ecosystem #NatureBasedLearning #NatureObservations #SharingEconomy -
Excerpt from "What is #Solarpunk Everything you need to know about solarpunk, how it connects to #ClimateJustice and how to get involved with the movement" by Andrew Sage, published January 16, 2023:
How does solarpunk relate to #degrowth?
"The overlap between solarpunk and the degrowth movement can be found in the understanding that #capitalism’s built-in imperative to grow, expand, exploit, and profit endlessly cannot continue in the context of a #FinitePlanet.
"The degrowth movement is about rejecting the #GlobalCapitalist system’s pursuit of endless growth and advocating for a world based in care, solidarity, and autonomy in which our social and ecological well-being are at the forefront.
"Degrowth means #ClimateJustice and a good life for all within #PlanetaryBoundaries.
"Although aspects of solarpunk and degrowth may benefit from particular government policies, these movements cannot rely on the state. The state is structurally unsuited to ecological restoration, and can even potentially operate as an obstacle.
"The inherently violent and ecocidal character that has marked states from their earliest inception and up to their present incarnations does not lend itself to our liberation. Top-down approaches have consistently failed where local approaches to #rewilding have succeeded.
"The solarpunk movement emphasises local power, local organising, and local #autonomy because the world we envision cannot be imposed from above.
"A forest is more than its trees; ecological restoration requires intimate knowledge with the local nuances of the land, the water cycle, and the network of microorganisms, fungi, plants, and animals that sustain it.
"Our planet will be healed on the #grassroots level. We will need to circumvent the impositions of those in power through direct action to bring a solarpunk world into being."
https://shado-mag.com/all/what-is-solarpunk/
#AntiCapitalism #Degrowth #TheLimitsToGrowth #Sustainability #Ecosystem #NatureBasedLearning #NatureObservations #SharingEconomy -
A blessed #WinterSolstice / #Yule for all those who celebrate it. My morning was spent cleaning the bird trays, identifying "mystery tracks" in the snow (99% sure it was a Fisher Cat weasel looking for a drink), and then enjoyed watching many different colored birds having a feast! And yes, I love winter and snow. It's something I treasure and hope that will still happen (but who knows with Global Warming and Climate Change).
#Maine #MaineBirds #Wildlife #NatureObservations -
A blessed #WinterSolstice / #Yule for all those who celebrate it. My morning was spent cleaning the bird trays, identifying "mystery tracks" in the snow (99% sure it was a Fisher Cat weasel looking for a drink), and then enjoyed watching many different colored birds having a feast! And yes, I love winter and snow. It's something I treasure and hope that will still happen (but who knows with Global Warming and Climate Change).
#Maine #MaineBirds #Wildlife #NatureObservations -
A blessed #WinterSolstice / #Yule for all those who celebrate it. My morning was spent cleaning the bird trays, identifying "mystery tracks" in the snow (99% sure it was a Fisher Cat weasel looking for a drink), and then enjoyed watching many different colored birds having a feast! And yes, I love winter and snow. It's something I treasure and hope that will still happen (but who knows with Global Warming and Climate Change).
#Maine #MaineBirds #Wildlife #NatureObservations -
A blessed #WinterSolstice / #Yule for all those who celebrate it. My morning was spent cleaning the bird trays, identifying "mystery tracks" in the snow (99% sure it was a Fisher Cat weasel looking for a drink), and then enjoyed watching many different colored birds having a feast! And yes, I love winter and snow. It's something I treasure and hope that will still happen (but who knows with Global Warming and Climate Change).
#Maine #MaineBirds #Wildlife #NatureObservations -
A blessed #WinterSolstice / #Yule for all those who celebrate it. My morning was spent cleaning the bird trays, identifying "mystery tracks" in the snow (99% sure it was a Fisher Cat weasel looking for a drink), and then enjoyed watching many different colored birds having a feast! And yes, I love winter and snow. It's something I treasure and hope that will still happen (but who knows with Global Warming and Climate Change).
#Maine #MaineBirds #Wildlife #NatureObservations -
Alright that's one green bin full. With all that rain the trees are growing like crazy
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I only sighted 6 #Ladyslipper #Orchids in the usual spots. They've been dwindling down every year. I remember when the spot was full of them -- just a few years ago! I'm grateful the property owner is aware of them and does his best to protect them from plant poachers (which are a real thing). Ladyslippers don't transplant well, and they should just be left alone (and viewed form a distance -- I used a telephoto lens for this shot).
#Nature #NatureHike #NaturePhotography #NatureObservations #LadySlipperOrchids #EndangeredSpecies #Nature #Bloomsbury #Bloomscrolling -
[Thread] This was my day today... A hike in a nearby forest and meadow, recording bird songs, and taking photos. Observations? Plenty for the bees to eat, but no bumblebees and barely any other bees. A couple of carpenter bees, a few small bees, but that was about all. I did capture some cool bird songs and used Merlin to identify them. So, mixed feelings about my hike. But it was still good to spend some time in nature -- even if my observations confirmed my misgivings about the local bee population.
#Nature #NatureHike #Maine #NatureObservations #CitizenScientist #RachelCarson -
Our gardens are coming alive again!
Photos by Suzie Simmons.
#Nature #NatureObservations #RichardJefferies #Wildlife #WildlifeWalk #RichardJefferies175
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Our gardens are coming alive again!
Photos by Suzie Simmons.
#Nature #NatureObservations #RichardJefferies #Wildlife #WildlifeWalk #RichardJefferies175
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"Time changes the places that knew us, and if we go back in after years, still even then it is not the old spot; the gate swings differently, new thatch has been put on the old gables, the road has been widened, and the sward the driven sheep lingered on is gone."
The Open Air#175WildlifeWalk #NatureObservations #Nature #RichardJefferies #richardjefferies175
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"Time changes the places that knew us, and if we go back in after years, still even then it is not the old spot; the gate swings differently, new thatch has been put on the old gables, the road has been widened, and the sward the driven sheep lingered on is gone."
The Open Air#175WildlifeWalk #NatureObservations #Nature #RichardJefferies #richardjefferies175
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"Legion is a little word for the butterflies; the dry pastures among the
woods are brown with meadow-brown; blues and coppers float in endless succession; all the nations of Xerxes' army were but a handful to these."Those were the words of Richard Jefferies in Field and Hedgerow – Hours of Spring.
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Photograph by Rosie Tozer.
#natureobservations #175wildlifewalk #richardjefferies175 #nature #richardjefferies #butterflyconservation #butterflies #conservation
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"Legion is a little word for the butterflies; the dry pastures among the
woods are brown with meadow-brown; blues and coppers float in endless succession; all the nations of Xerxes' army were but a handful to these."Those were the words of Richard Jefferies in Field and Hedgerow – Hours of Spring.
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Photograph by Rosie Tozer.
#natureobservations #175wildlifewalk #richardjefferies175 #nature #richardjefferies #butterflyconservation #butterflies #conservation
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This is a promotional clip for #WildIsles , the new David Attenborough-fronted documentary.
If you're involved with our walk this year (tip: anyone can join in!), we'd love contributions to our next book. More details here:
https://www.richardjefferies.org/wildlife-walkWild Isles will be broadcast on the BBC this spring.
Photo by Rosie Tozer.
#175wildlifewalk #natureobservations #nature #richardjefferies #richardjefferies175
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This is a promotional clip for #WildIsles , the new David Attenborough-fronted documentary.
If you're involved with our walk this year (tip: anyone can join in!), we'd love contributions to our next book. More details here:
https://www.richardjefferies.org/wildlife-walkWild Isles will be broadcast on the BBC this spring.
Photo by Rosie Tozer.
#175wildlifewalk #natureobservations #nature #richardjefferies #richardjefferies175
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Richard Jefferies, writing in The Hills and the Vale, put it this way: "Only by walking hand in hand with nature, only by a reverent and loving study of the mysteries for ever around us, is it possible to disabuse the mind of the narrow view, the contracted belief that time is now and eternity to-morrow. Eternity is to-day."
#175wildlifewalk #natureobservations #nature #richardjefferies #richardjefferies175 #eternityistoday
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Richard Jefferies, writing in The Hills and the Vale, put it this way: "Only by walking hand in hand with nature, only by a reverent and loving study of the mysteries for ever around us, is it possible to disabuse the mind of the narrow view, the contracted belief that time is now and eternity to-morrow. Eternity is to-day."
#175wildlifewalk #natureobservations #nature #richardjefferies #richardjefferies175 #eternityistoday
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The museum is home to a robin (or two). They can sometimes be very daring - have you spotted them perched on a bench here or a branch there?
Photo of (dare we say) our robin by Rosie Tozer.
Richard Jefferies, writing in Wild Life in a Southern County, made this observation (cont'd):
#175wildlifewalk #natureobservations #nature #richardjefferies #richardjefferies175
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I've heard of Shrikes in other parts of the world impailing their prey on sharp points and I wondered whether local Shrikes in Singapore do the same. Well, now I know. Warning: graphic images of an impaled frog in the link which features a Brown Shrike (Lanius cristatus).
#Nature #Singapore #NatureObservations #Birds #Shrikes
http://www.besgroup.org/2018/12/02/brown-shrike-caught-a-bullfrog/