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Snow in the Jura
footpath covered in snow Just a few days ago, I commented over at The Marvellous in Nature that we didn’t have enough snow yet for snow-shoeing. Well that has all changed! We now have several...
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Bird feeders
robin bird feeder covered with snow The recent spell of freezing weather is coming to an end, but not before it dropped a foot of snow on our terrace. Birds have a hard time in such cold weather, in...
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Avatar: What do you see?
Neytiri, a Na’vi from Pandora baby pigeons in flower pot grebes on lac leman fungus on tree hummingbird hawk moth seagulls on lac leman blue flowers sparrows drinking view over coral reef sunflower in...
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Little feet in the snow
footprints in the snow footprints around bird food chaffinch looking in chaffinch checking me out OK, where’s the food The snow is melting fast outside now, there’s only a few piles of mush left on...
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While out walking
Mont Blanc and Alps from the Pays de Gex Spring almost came to the Pays de Gex recently, and our morning walks were more pleasant for a while. It’s cold again now, but for a few days it was even warm...
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Green Gardening
my garden in 2009Is your garden green? Well of course it’s green, it’s got plants in it, that’s not what I mean. How environmentally-friendly is it? Are there things we can we do to make it more...
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I know of a farm where they don’t feed the animals. They even allow predators to roam freely, taking up to one fifth of their stock. And they’re proud of it. That sounds pretty awful, but it’s not,...
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Neighbourhood Watch
magpie on nearby barn roof This spring, we had the inescapable feeling that we were being watched. Somewhere nearby, we felt, someone was keeping their eye on us. magpie coming for peanuts Sure enough,...
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My new friend
Rover looking at meThis is my newest friend, a pigeon I call ‘Rover’. Why do I call him that? Because of the way we met. Standing in the food bowlDweezeljazz and I go for a walk most mornings. About a...
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Rescuing birds
great tit recovering on my hand A few days ago, a great tit collided with our living room window. It’s always heart-wrenching to hear the thud of a bird against the window, fortunately it doesn’t...
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