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More autumnal fruity beauty today. Can you name the plants?
11 Sunday Oct 2020
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More autumnal fruity beauty today. Can you name the plants?
27 Sunday Sep 2020
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autumn berries, autumn colour, autumn fruit, berries, fruit, hips
‘Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.’
~ Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1912.
01 Friday Nov 2019
‘Autumn wins you best by this, its mute
Appeal to sympathy for its decay.’
~ Robert Browning, Paracelsus, scene 1
25 Friday Oct 2019
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Wales is once again living up to its reputation for being a wet country, a fact about which I may not be particularly happy but the slugs are once again / still loving it.
27 Friday Sep 2019
22 Sunday Sep 2019
24 Monday Dec 2018
18 Thursday Oct 2018
At this time of year, Nature adorns her shrubs and bushes with exquisite baubles of bright red berries, in this case the fruits of Black bryony (Tamus communis).
16 Sunday Sep 2018
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autumn colour, berries, fruits, haws, hips, red berries, red fruit, red hips
25 Saturday Nov 2017
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autumn berries, berries, berries and birds, berry eating birds, birding, birdwatching, Song thrush, thrush
In recent days, on my regular walks, whether in suburban streets or in the local parks and nature reserves, wherever I see berries there are birds, usually thrushes, gobbling down as many berries as they can find.
A Song thrush found its golden treasure trove in a tiny, but well-planted-for-wildlife garden amongst the apartments of Penarth Marina, and, below, this thrush, at Cosmeston Lakes Country Park, looked to have chosen a berry far too big for its beak but it persevered and, eventually, by applying a little pressure to squash the berry a fraction, down the hatch it went.