Welcome to Rob's Nature Scribblings redux!
2013 was an interesting year for me with some big changes and this poor blog got abandoned a little for the last 9 months.
As a quick, non-boring 2013 review: I did the usual things: LNHS trips and poking around in woods, heaths, meadows and marshes looking at plants and 6-legged critters. But I also spent a good chunk of 2013 in Trent Park in north London as part of the 1000for1ksq project. The idea behind this was to pick a 1km square and aim to identify 1000 species within it over the course of the year. Some amazing people actually managed to fly past it! I did not. But you can see at least some of how Ineglected this blog did in grid square TQ2897
2013 was an interesting year for me with some big changes and this poor blog got abandoned a little for the last 9 months.
As a quick, non-boring 2013 review: I did the usual things: LNHS trips and poking around in woods, heaths, meadows and marshes looking at plants and 6-legged critters. But I also spent a good chunk of 2013 in Trent Park in north London as part of the 1000for1ksq project. The idea behind this was to pick a 1km square and aim to identify 1000 species within it over the course of the year. Some amazing people actually managed to fly past it! I did not. But you can see at least some of how I
I recommend checking out the other posts on that site; I learnt so much from reading it last year. And if you're particularly inspired, there are a bunch of people doing it again this year.
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| Arthur's Seat |
I've only been living here since late December and I have plenty more exploring to do locally. I've also joined the Edinburgh Natural History Society, gone on a couple of trips and made some friends.
So with this effective reboot, I'm hoping to share through this blog some of that exploration and getting to know this land. I'm also hoping that it fulfills a niche that seems fairly underdeveloped in the Scottish nature blogosphere: that of the smaller stuff. Scotland's got some great, charismatic fauna - eagles, salmon, beavers, otters, red deer, Scottish wild cats, basking sharks, cetaceans, gannet colonies etc. And while I'm sure I'll post a metric f***-ton of photos of those things should I see them; I want to show some of other things Scotland has to offer: the mosses, the unusual plants, the insects, the littoral wildlife etc.
Also, fair warning: This blog is going to get mossy until it warms up a bit. I've got into bryophytes quite a bit since I last posted here and Scotland is stupendously diverse when it comes to these plants. It has about 87% of the UK flora and about 60% of all the European bryophyte species!
I'll be back soon with actual content!
So with this effective reboot, I'm hoping to share through this blog some of that exploration and getting to know this land. I'm also hoping that it fulfills a niche that seems fairly underdeveloped in the Scottish nature blogosphere: that of the smaller stuff. Scotland's got some great, charismatic fauna - eagles, salmon, beavers, otters, red deer, Scottish wild cats, basking sharks, cetaceans, gannet colonies etc. And while I'm sure I'll post a metric f***-ton of photos of those things should I see them; I want to show some of other things Scotland has to offer: the mosses, the unusual plants, the insects, the littoral wildlife etc.
Also, fair warning: This blog is going to get mossy until it warms up a bit. I've got into bryophytes quite a bit since I last posted here and Scotland is stupendously diverse when it comes to these plants. It has about 87% of the UK flora and about 60% of all the European bryophyte species!
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| Pointed Spear-moss, Calliergonella cuspidata |
I'll be back soon with actual content!
