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Continue reading →: 30 Days Wild 2021 – Day 6 – Nature Walking – The Red SquirrelTaking a walk out in a wood or forest you are most likely to spot a Squirrel. More often it will probably be a Grey Squirrel, which has taken over a good proportion of the UK and has helped in the reduction in numbers of our native Red Squirrel. There…
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Continue reading →: 30 Days Wild 2021 – Day 5 – Nature Walking – The RobinNature is all around us and it is good to get out walking and seeing it first hand. On this particular walk my family and I came across a Robin “Erithacus rubecula” sat next to the path. It was happily watching the walkers out on this route picking up anything…
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Continue reading →: 30 Days Wild 2021 – Day 4 – On the beach – TrackingThe beach is a great place to track footprints. Okay so they are typically Human and Dog but look closer qnd you will find other types of track and sign. The best place to look for these is when the tide is out and on the wet sand. Although you can…
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Continue reading →: 30 Days Wild 2021 – Day 3 – On the beach – SandhoppersIf you have been looking on the beach, lifted up a rock and spotted small creatures resembling a shrimp like shape and moving around on their sides. These are probably Sandhoppers. Normally located between the upper and lower tide marks under rocks and in seaweed. Sandhoppers or “Amphipods” tend to…
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Continue reading →: 30 Days Wild 2021 – Day 2 – On the beach – Shore Crab and Masked Crab.Following on from yesterday’s post on Seaweed, today I am concentrating on the humble Shore Crab and another that we found a Masked Crab. Shore Crab The Shore Crab is is the most common crab that you will find when Rockpooling or lifting Seaweed and Stones on the beach. “Carcinus…
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