Brighter Planet's 350 Challenge

Counting Nature and Fedging the Issue

The sun shone, time was mine, I decided to count nature for the www.waterscape.com survey over the Easter weekend.  I like to think I’m very observant when it comes to the wildlife around here, but it became clear almost immediately that casual observation and (nearly) scientific survey are two very different activities.  Counting stuff, instead of just noticing it, [...]

Bees

Here is a bee, the bumbling sort I might add.  We found her in the dining room this weekend.  I’m guessing she came in with a basket full of logs from the woodstore, where she was probably hibernating for the winter.  She was pretty dozy, I hope she wasn’t unwell, she posed quite passively on this coffee [...]