Tag: March

• March madness

  Before I venture into the mayhem of March 2013, I must apologise for missing out the first Butterfly emergence of the year. This appeared in the form of a Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta). Find a splendid example of this beauty below, from Finn Holding’s The Naturephile Flickr account. *Finn Holding’s website is one of several, my readers might […]

  Tony

  April 6, 2013

  my calendar

  Bird migration, birds, butterflies, Citizen science, climate, climate change, March, phenology, seasons, weather

• March and April Phenological madness

  I have recently updated my natural events calendar to reflect all the activity since Mid March. So where are we now? Unseasonably warm temperatures and a continuing drought have dominated the UK weather headlines from the past couple of weeks. The drought area recently increased in size to cover a larger area of the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, snow […]

  Tony

  April 3, 2012

  birding, butterflies, Environmental, insects, my calendar, netweather, news, phenology, weather

  April, Birding, birds, budburst, Bumblebee, butterflies, butterfly, Citizen science, climate, climate change, Drought, Insects, leafing, madness, March, nature, Northern England, Observation, Observing, phenology, research, science, Scotland, seasons, spring, trees, united kingdom, weather