Confessions of a Wildlife Biologist

Thursday, 12 March 2009

Garden starting to come to life

Finally, the garden is begining to look less like an atomic wasteland and more like a garden.
Few little plants starting to bud, and the occasional flower.
Pictures from top:
I've no idea what this flower is. If anyone knows, please do tell
2nd, not sure what this bud is either..

We'll see when it comes out

3rd- My baby radishes! Much taller now, about 50mm tall though they still have their coteledons, no real leaves yet
4th- My cuccumbers- Noooo Their not looking especially healthy...

Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Collared Dove in my garden!

Spotted a pair of Collared doves on my bird feeders. Tried taking a shot of them but the lighting was terrible and the shots came out blurred. Probably should've used a higher ISO. Anyways, the 2 came in and sat on the rail for a bit, I actually didnt see them eating from the feeder. Later on this afternoon I saw them back again but my enemy, next doors cat, came by and scared them away. I managed to stare down the cat and it fled the garden in a hurry.
I hope the doves return to my garden, makes a nice change from the Jackdaws.
Skip out

Tuesday, 3 March 2009

Visit to the National Botanic Garden of Wales

Should probably have posted this earlier!
On the 2nd March IWB squadron and the students from Biology squadron took a coach up to Carmarthen to pay a visit to the NBGW. I dont have time to write, in full, what happened, so I'll summerise:
After the coach arrived at the NBGW we headed up to the Great Glass House, the biggest free standing glasshouse in the world (the eden project doesnt count, theirs is plastic, HAHA in your face Eden Project!)

In here we had a tour around the Fynbos vegetation and into the other Mediteranian areas, Chille, California, the Med, and South Africa. We then had a tea break with rather good welsh cakes and a talk on the work being done at NBGW, then it was time for lunch in the Cafe.
Since there was such a wide range of main meals avaialble and I couldnt choose which I wanted I decided to skip the main course and just have the different cakes. A none to bad choise to be fair!
After this it was back to the glasshouse to do our own research on the Fynbos vegetation before we were extracted and returned to base.
Mission report ends 1755 Zulu

Pictures from Top:
House Sparrow in the courtyard of the Cafe
The glasshouse
SAMR by my camera

Sunday, 15 February 2009

Back once again

Well, its been an insanely long time since I wrote anything in here. To be fair, very little has changed. Diving wise, I'm now EFR qualified and havnt dived since Marsa Alam (Shame....) YSFLIGHT wise I'm pretty inactive. Am pretty busy with my Wildlife Biology course, which is rather good.
What else has changed... Oh, I have a new computer, a desktop this time.
A new lens for my Nikon. (70-300mm) and a couple of other things.
Wow, i just realised, it was Oct when I last wrote in here!
How about a picture collage of what I've been up to:

Climbing Mountains: