UK Swift Awareness Week is 16th to 23rd June 2018. It’s the initiative of a small but very active group of bird lovers who know swifts are in danger, who set up an organisation called Action For Swifts. I learned
Swift Awareness Week #30DaysWild
Going Bats – act of random wildness for #30DaysWild
I’ve been going bats for several years now. Then I bought a bat detector. Since then I’ve known roughly which bats I’m batty about – or which are most batty near me, as the case may be. Detecting bats Bats
Book Review | Old Baggage plus #30DaysWild
Old Baggage is my book review this week, and I’m still working out how to link in the #30DaysWild aspect. You’ll find out how I did after you’ve read the review! Thank you to Net-Galley and the publisher who provided a
Galileo’s Theme Park and #30DaysWild
Galileo’s Theme Park is out today! It’s a science fiction anthology in which we were asked to feature other worlds in our solar system. I make no apology for pushing this on you as part of my #30DaysWild challenge, since
The End of an Iceberg #30DaysWild
Iceberg B-15 broke away from the Antarctic ice shelf in 2000. It’s been tracked from space ever since, and it’s nearly gone. The wonderful Earthsky.org notified me of the event and I thought you’d be interested. This seemed so wild
Breeding Bird Survey #30DaysWild
Monday I did my fifth Breeding Bird Survey of the season. There are only six, so I’m nearly done. That is, there are two surveys each for three different patches I cover in NE Norfolk. The BTO Breeding Bird Survey
Going Cuckoo – a walk in Hunstanton #30DaysWild
The cuckoo must be the most distinctive and widely known song in the world. Cuckoo clocks – who hasn’t heard one? Real cuckoos are often heard, but rarely seen, partly because the song echoes so far over the terrain. April,
Urban Fox – weekend sighting #30DaysWild
Urban fox sounds like an impossibility. These days foxes are almost more common in UK cities than they are in the surrounding countryside. I was staying in southwest London for a couple of nights over the weekend and saw one,
Norfolk Hawker Dragonfly #30DaysWild
Norfolk Hawker is, as it might sound from the name, something found in Norfolk. It’s a dragonfly only found in Norfolk, and found increasingly rarely along certain types of dykes and streams. As with the Swallowtail butterfly, I thought I
Book Review | Dreamwood – a #30DaysWild wood
Dreamwood is my book review for today. This fantasy adventure for middle grade readers takes place around the north-west coast of a settler-era America. What’s so #30DaysWild about that? Well, with all the things going on with the trees, I thought
In search of a Swallowtail #30DaysWild
Swallowtail butterflies. They are common on mainland Europe, but rare in the UK, and in any case they are much yellower – a subspecies, distinct from its European relatives. The main place you find Swallowtails in the UK is Norfolk,
Baby birds abounding #30DaysWild
Baby birds are all over the place! I suspected that my Blackbirds had one out of the nest at the weekend. I haven’t seen much of them since, so they have probably taken it/them somewhere wilder. The Bluetits were squeaking
Six Swans a-sky-sailing #30DaysWild
Swans usually fly in twos or threes, in my experience. So it was a surprise to see six swans sailing overhead when I was playing golf at Fakenham on Monday. You’ve noticed I go wild on lots of golf courses.
Blushers on the golf course #30DaysWild
Blushers on the golf course? Well, my golf gives me plenty to blush about, but on Sunday I was admiring the first class golf between the top ladies in my club and those of Ryston Park. I may lament the
Lakenheath and Weeting #30DaysWild
I was supposed to go to Lakenheath and Weeting Heath with my bird society on Saturday but I wimped out. I should add that I hadn’t done the official sign-up, so they weren’t expecting me. But I’m a member of
Dance in a thunderstorm! #30DaysWild
Dance in a thunderstorm? Well it’s mad, but it’s wild 🙂 I did it yesterday just for fun! Sorry – no selfie…. I was searching for a photo though, when I found a nice report on twisters being formed in
My Wildflower Garden #30DaysWild
My wildflower garden is about five years old now. It’s been masquerading as a blue nearly wildflower garden for the past month, since the self-sown forget-me-nots add a haze of colour between the naturalised daffodils and the real wildflowers coming
#SciFi and #Fantasy books for only 99c THIS WEEKEND 2-3 June
SciFi and Fantasy books for 99c Look out this weekend for over 60 science fiction and fantasy books by indie authors all for 99c (99p in UK) on Amazon (and usually elsewhere, too). These include The Perihelix, the first in
Wild June – starting with legless lizards #30DaysWild
Wild June is a theme I decided to pick up and run with for some freshness for the blog. The April A to Z Challenge brought some food for thought for me, as discussed in the May Reflections post, and
Galileo’s Theme Park | Beach Reads #Giveaway Hop
An ultimate Beach Reads book – Galileo’s Theme Park – is my prize for all you international giveaway hoppers out there. The Beach Reads Giveaway Hop is brought to you courtesy of Valerie at Stuck in Books, so when you’ve
From White Water Landings | Centaurus Acceptance Tests – new voice recordings
Running through ideas for more voice recordings, I thought the description of the acceptance testing would be of interest. Canopus at Rochester 1936 The first three Empire Flying Boats Only one flying boat had been through the acceptance testing and
Mondays will never be the same #blogging
Mondays are days most people blog. I get a strew of emails from people I follow. Okay, some of those are from posts on Sundays, but still… Last Monday, someone changed my life. To be fair, he changed several hundred,
Book Reviews | Shadows from the Past series catch-up
Shadows from the Past is an MG historical time travel mystery suspense adventure series by Wendy Leighton-Porter. Wendy has won several awards in the last year. These are thoroughly deserved, as it’s an excellent series, which gives you a real
FridayFlash #Fi50 Fiction | The End is in the Beginning
The End is in the Beginning is this month’s fiction in fifty words prompt. Fi50, or fiction in fifty words, is the ultimate in flash fiction. Get the whole story into fifty words, and make sure your reader’s imagination fills
Two books in the Kindle Book Awards – vote now!
I have entered two books in the Kindle book awards – and in the Cover awards, and in the Readers’ Choice awards. That’s where you come in. You vote for the Readers’ Choice awards. Go here, follow the instructions, vote,