Nature Notes – December 2012
After days of wind and rain, November ended on a gentler, yet cooler note with some calm intervals. This was very different to its start, when spring-flowering plants were already well developed...
Category: Nature Notes 2012
Nature Notes – November 2012
Last month I talked about migration of animals and how, even at the smallest scale and species, animals are driven to move onward to new places of settlement in search of resources...
Nature Notes – October 2012
Now is the time for celebrating the bounty of nature. Humans eagerly gather in a harvesst bounty of ripe fruits and grains. Edible fungi are popping up in grassy fields bordered by...
August 2012
It’s been a couple of months since the last article, owing partly to travel abroad. Many people are travelling to the Roseland for holidays, prompting a reminder that other species need to...
April 2012
March has hailed the true start of spring, with mixed, sometimes turbulent weather and fluctuating temperatures, while the end of the month has been almost balmy. There is new colour and form...
March 2012
Spring has definitely arrived at last. Despite the cold snap early in the month of February, which put a temporary stop to some of the territorial singing that had started among some...
February 2012
January, often associated with bitter cold weather and relative inactivity across much of the plant and animal kingdoms, was unusually mild, wet and occasionally very windy, resulting in complex and rapidly changing...
January 2012
December brings to a close a year of remarkable abundance, a product of ideal climatic conditions for many species, and food webs. There’s been rain and wind in the last month, with...