First wasp (jasper) of 2021! YAAAY! Summer's a comin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d5ZOgWZAmQ
Am Yisrael Chai
Sunshine has brought out dozens of skylarks on the hill, lovely to see and here. Hundreds and hundreds of frogs in all the peat bogs - getting jiggy!
Don't roll with a pig in poo. You get covered in poo and the pig likes it.
First genuinely interesting thing "captured" on my wildlife camera. A badger in some local woods. I have mixed feelings:
It's really nice to see a badger, but there are lots of gamekeepers round here, and I don't want it to be killed
But...
I don't want it eating my chickens.
Thankfully there are so many pheasants about as a distraction at the moment. We'll just have to remember to shut the coop up every night.
Saw a Little Owl today whilst out running. Only the second one I've ever seen.
Nice spot.
Up until 2/3 years ago, every year around this time, I would regularly see one atop one of the telegraph poles that line one of the lanes out of the village.
They are a lovely sight but unfortunately one that is getting rare.
Visibility good except in Hill Fog
Hare running across a field; but it was being quite sensible, because it is not March yet.
In his lifetime he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen.
Jorge Luis Borges
Newts appearing in the local pond. They are small and I assume smooth. Need to be careful as last year the local Kingfisher was gobbling them down. No Frogspawn yet.
Dead badger, staring at me as I ran past on the short stretch of road between the exit from the Outwoods and the entrance to Beacon Hill Country Park. No doubt Llani Boy will be pleased to know that there is one less specimen of this vermin stalking the fields and woods of Leicestershire.
In his lifetime he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen.
Jorge Luis Borges
I also saw a dead badger in North Warwickshire on my last cycle ride. I assume it had been hit by a car in the night at a decent speed, as it was a good 10 yards from the roadside.