Sylvia Meller
A run for the pond - or, well , a slow hop and crawl...
Its the time of the year when amphibians are on the move again to find some water to spawn in. Found this big Common toad, Bufo bufo, and...
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Sylvia Meller
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Crossbills on Dartmoor
On a recent trip to Dartmoor I was watching a Coal tit when a Common crossbill , Loxia curvirostra, came landing on the same tree, just a...
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Sylvia Meller
Feb 14, 20221 min read
Great time to watch winter-visiting birds
During winter we get a lot of birds visiting the UK , especially waders and sea birds, so this is a great opportunity to see some of...
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Sylvia Meller
Feb 14, 20221 min read
Inspirational talk by Gordon Buchanan
Yesterday evening I was so lucky to see Gordon Buchanan doing his '30 Years In The Wild' Tour. One of the best wildlife filmers and...
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Sylvia Meller
Feb 6, 20221 min read
Mrs Bob and her beaver family, 2021, Part 2
A new episode of Mrs Bob and her beaver family is up on YouTube: It is the beginning of March 2021 and the nights are still too long to...
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Sylvia Meller
Jan 20, 20221 min read
A first for me!
With the help of some other local wildlife photographers I managed to find my first Bramblings , Fringilla montifringilla, among a flock...
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Sylvia Meller
Jan 10, 20221 min read
Mrs Bob and her beaver family - First episode of 2021
Last year, about the same time. It is January, freezing cold and dark, but Mrs Bob and her beaver family don't mind. The dark evenings...
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Sylvia Meller
Dec 27, 20211 min read
Have a beavery Christmas!
Hope you all had a lovely Christmas time! As promised here comes the very special edition of Mrs Bob and her family. It's not too often...
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Sylvia Meller
Dec 12, 20211 min read
Last Mrs Bob episode.... but only from 2020
The last days of 2020 , what better way than to spend it with the beavers. An otter swam past the lodge before the beavers came out and...
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Sylvia Meller
Dec 9, 20211 min read
Big buzz!
Our biggest species of wasp in the UK is the European hornet , Vespa crabro. They are not extremely aggressive without any reason and...
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Sylvia Meller
Dec 5, 20211 min read
Pretty green eyes
This is one of my favourite bees, the Green-eyed Flower Bee , Anthophora bimaculata. Their buzzing sounds like the buzzing of a mosquito!...
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Sylvia Meller
Dec 3, 20211 min read
The ant that is not an ant...
It kind of looks like a beetle, but it's not. It's called a Velvet ant, Mutilla europaea, but it is not an ant. It actually is a species...
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Sylvia Meller
Nov 26, 20211 min read
Mrs Bob and her family , Part 29
November 2020, it is cold , but the beavers are out as usually. The yearlings still haven't got the difference between lodge and larder...
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Sylvia Meller
Nov 19, 20211 min read
Army of the forest
Over the summer I found some wood ant colonies, possibly Southern wood ants , Formica rufa , on the commons. It is amazing watching those...
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Sylvia Meller
Nov 17, 20211 min read
2022 calendars now available!
Hello wildlife lovers! My 2022 calendars are now available, either in A4 for £12 or A3 for £17 incl postage. For other prints and...
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Sylvia Meller
Nov 11, 20211 min read
Autumn time is Mushroom time!
Mushrooms, fungi, toadstools - call them however you want, they are fascinating organisms. They come in all kind of different shapes and...
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Sylvia Meller
Aug 22, 20211 min read
New beaver episode
Mrs Bob, the beaver mum, is still providing fresh twigs and branches for the kits to feed on, but they have become very independent and...
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Sylvia Meller
Aug 18, 20211 min read
Spots are the new fashion
I found a lot of Six-spot Burnet moth , Zygaena filipendulae, mainly the adults, but also in its different development stages, as...
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Sylvia Meller
Aug 7, 20211 min read
Mrs Bob and her family, Part 26
An early morning at the beaver lodge. The whole family is coming to eat the leaves and gnaw the bark off the branches which Mrs Bob, the...
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Sylvia Meller
Jul 31, 20211 min read
Hungry dragons
Late summer / early autumn is the time for dragonflies and damselflies. The smaller damselflies and demoiselles are easily spotted flying...
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