Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.
As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”
Seeing towers of Foxgloves (Digitalis) over the weekend — many of the flowers had been knocked down by Saturday’s strong rains — reminded me of my trip to Dartmoor a year ago. The hedge-shrouded paths there were frequently foxgloved, and abuzz with bees. Check out the wild pattern within, and remember that bees see more of the blue side of things than we do. There are also little hairs in here, harder to see in this photo.
Here are all the posts on that adventure.
Hi Matthew, I followed that link to your Dartmoor adventure and loved it all over again. I’m just back from 3 weeks in England, and it brought back a lot of (recent) memories. Many of the birds looked very familiar. But going on my experience, I’d have thought that the robin is the second most common bird – passerine, at least.
Three weeks! Sounds heavenly.
It was. Especially the first two weeks when I was visiting a friend in Lancashire – she’s a birder but interested in all of nature, and since she enjoys photography herself, she doesn’t mind when I stop to take a picture.
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