Category: Nature
The natural world – flora & fauna.
Plan A failed today. We were headed for Chapelle de la Gliere but only got 10 minutes from the chair lift before we realised there was way too much snow...
The World Conservation Union, or International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Red List of Threatened Species is the world’s most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species.
Kapiti Island, 5km off the coast just north of Wellington has been a nature reserve since the 1950's, and has been free of all introduced mammals since the last possums were eradicated in 1996...
Anna and I filled a spare morning doing jobs around the garden.
The chancellor having increased the cost of everything again, it is time to make some progress with the effort to become more self-sufficient
The first sound of a Curlew....
This little critter had got into the house somehow and was happily munching on our store of bird food before we caught it and then released it some distance from the house...
This week we had the help of Pete and Tish in the garden. They worked like trojans.
Being a bit (okay, a lot) of a grown-up kid, I planted a load of sunflower seeds this summer...
