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He's nature I suppose



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I see you have some of those big daisys... :mrgreen:
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Feels like someone’s watching me 👁️👁️
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Swannie:


I see RSPB Minsmere and Dunwich Heath got hit badly. Anywhere near you?


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Blackie over on waccoe isn't happy, one of her favourite birding haunts
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The Subhuman wrote: ↑Sat Aug 01, 2026 4:12 pm Swannie:


I see RSPB Minsmere and Dunwich Heath got hit badly. Anywhere near you?


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Blackie over on waccoe isn't happy, one of here favourite birding haunts
Looks apocalyptic, doesn’t it 🙁

…….compared with RSPB Newport Wetlands, where we went on Friday
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The Subhuman wrote: ↑Sat Aug 01, 2026 4:12 pm Swannie:


I see RSPB Minsmere and Dunwich Heath got hit badly. Anywhere near you?


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Blackie over on waccoe isn't happy, one of her favourite birding haunts
Disastrous for the wildlife & residents around there.
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Brits call this butterfly the Camberwell Beauty while Americans call it Mourning Cloak.How can the same thing be viewed with dread by one person yet as beauty by another?

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Do they live off Camberwell carrots?
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Sean_Nile wrote: ↑Mon Aug 03, 2026 1:34 pm Brits call this butterfly the Camberwell Beauty while Americans call it Mourning Cloak.How can the same thing be viewed with dread by one person yet as beauty by another?

Bit like the match thread last night then. 😮
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CUSSIE01 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 03, 2026 5:16 pm Bit like the match thread last night then. 😮
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Cone flower and Red Admiral butterfly.
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For the marine biologists amongst us, obviously a Phacellophora 🪼 …..but for the rest of us a ‘Fried Egg’ 🪼
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Out in Roath Park, Cardiff yesterday and came across hundreds of these Monkey Balls beneath a Osage Orange tree…..ages since I’ve come across one of them.
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Muppet the Cat wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2026 2:45 pm Out in Roath Park, Cardiff yesterday and came across hundreds of these Monkey Balls beneath a Osage Orange tree…..ages since I’ve come across one of them.
Wild hops on the River Wey


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Some may remember this from last month in my back garden

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And after the flames went out, the back garden looked like this
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3 weeks ago I hired a bobcat mini digger
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2 weeks ago I bought some turf
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And decided that a pond would be nice
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Tomorrow after it has stopped pissing down I will take a couple of pictures of it now, as the grass has now rooted.....
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How much of that TPO/SSSI protected woodland have you pinched :duno: ….. :)
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The Subhuman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2026 3:21 pm Wild hops on the River Wey



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Can’t recall coming across wild hops before.

You should have a go at making your own gluten free beer :tup:
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