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Kirkstall Creatures Great and Small My observations of fauna & flora in Leeds & beyond
A regularly updated pictorial diary of the wildlife in and around Raphoe, Co. Donegal, Ireland.
Random jottings on the natural world - mainly about my home ground of Northumberland and Durham but with occasional bits from elsewhere. Topics covered range across all areas of natural history reflecting my broad interest. The aim of the blog is to stimulate participation as I believe that sharing of observations and experiences is the best way to develop naturalist skills. A sample showing style and content is repeated below.
'Over the years I have been called out many times to deal with bats that end up inside houses and then can't find their way out. The responses of apparently rational human beings who find a bat flying round their room can be astonishing. In one case I attended after a frantic call to the police was routed my way, I rang the door bell and this Giant Haystack of a man answered the door, white as a sheet. He took me into his living room and showed me the bat. It was on his hearth and was not well. Worse- it was dead - a pip well and truly squeaked. Eventually he confided in me that he had panicked and when the bat landed on the brick chimney breast, he wacked it with a full size builder's shovel. This man, who looked like he could bend iron bars with his teeth had been reduced to a quivering wreck by an inch long pipistrelle.'
UK & Eire Natural History Bloggers A community for British and Irish bloggers who write about natural history and/or nature conservation. Blogs featuring pictures, video or sound recordings of wildlife are welcome too.
To join, you just need to:
1. be based in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland;
2. blog regularly about natural history.
Natural history encompasses a wide range of topics, including flora, fauna and fungi, plus geology and meteorology. Examples of natural history blogs include diaries of backyard nature observations and journals about conservation projects.
We reserve the right to reject blogs and websites which are deemed inappropriate.
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