Here are ten numbers to go with this week’s cold snap.
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Winter robins
Did you know that some robins migrate?
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Here are some numbers to go with this week’s cold snap.
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Happy New Year!
It’s New Year’s Day, the eighth day of Christmas, on which our true love is supposed to send us eight maids a-milking. So let’s use that as a welcome opportunity to look forward to the spring with a gallery of spring flowers.
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Winter roosts
The increasing use of nest box cameras has shown how frequently garden nest boxes are used by blue tits for winter roosting.
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Wolf Moon
The first full moon of the year is called the Wolf Moon, apparently after the howling of hungry wolves in midwinter. The name seems to be common to both old European and North American cultures, perhaps an indication of how shared fears of the cold and the dark have shaped otherwise disparate human societies.
This year’s Wolf Moon will be tonight at just past a quarter to midnight and, if the misty weather we have been promised by the Met Office permits, should be spectacular as the temperature falls toward zero.
First frost
Last night brought the year’s first frost to many parts of the country.
Video: Timelapse of frost forming on European beech leaves ©Alastair MacEwen/naturepl.com
Header image: frosted leaves by DKG
Winter roosts
The increasing use of nest box cameras has shown how frequently garden nest boxes are used by blue tits for winter roosting.
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Southwick Country Park Nature Reserve 