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With not much talk of Phenology, I will attempt to make this post short. Meanwhile, my previous news still applies since the calendar is moving, see here – The Birds, they are a-singing and the daylight hours are 9 hours 38 minutes in length now and increasing rapidly. For my locality, this February’s weather has brought 3 days where snow was seen falling.…
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So the UK’s winter is finally set to bite. Will I be getting snow or cold rain, come the weekend? Some answers to this being above, courtesy of the professionals. Official blog of the Met Office news team This weekend will see a marked change in the weather as the dry spell makes way for…
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As nature’s circadian rhythms seem somewhat uncoordinated, here was I, hoping for colder weather come February. Well, some normality at last appears to be on its way, but first, some phenology. My latest phenological event was yesterday, 27th January, in the form of a First heard drumming Great Spotted Woodpecker – Dendrocopos major. This event matches closely to the mean date…
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The birds have been most vocal in recent days on my local patch and in the nearby countryside. To break down the detail, let us look at the birds that have been singing more or less every day since the autumn. Great Tit (Parus major) has been a joy to hear with its “tit-su, tit-su,…
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I, for one would not argue against this latest evidence. See my Natural Events Calendar link for a personal slant from last year. It is pure conjecture as to whether there is a definite trend but these events are thought provoking, to say the least. Butterflies move faster than birds in response to climate change Kind…
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