HAPPY NEW YEAR and Happy Birthday, Blog! 2026 will be its 12th year. Prior to that, interested parties received updates via email, starting way back in 2010!
Many newspapers, Radio & TV start the year with a look back at the year just past, so I thought I might do the same. Here are my personal highlights for 2025, starting last month:
DECEMBER |
Tree Creeper and |
| Great Spotted Woodpecker |
NOVEMBER  |
| Grey Wagtail |
OCTOBER  |
| Teal |
SEPTEMBER |
new look pond and |
SEPTEMBER |
| Comma butterfly |
AUGUST |
14-spot Ladybird and |
AUGUST  |
| Clouded Yellow Butterfly |
JULY  |
Reed Warbler |
JUNE |
| Sedge Warbler |
MAY |
male Orange Tip Butterfly and |
MAY |
| Orange Tip egg on Cuckoo Flower |
APRIL |
| Mallard Duckling |
MARCH |
| Snipe |
FEBRUARY |
| Frogspawn |
JANUARY |
| Redwing |
and so back to January!
This was a really difficult exercise to do - so much had to be left out !
What will be the highlights of 2026, I wonder?
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