Opinions, thoughts and adventures of a young conservationist.
This weeks quiz is all about fungi, to answer you have to name the fungi (Latin or English) which is displayed in the photo. To answer the question you can comment below or tweet me @GeorgiaLocock
Tomorrow I will do a blog post about the different fungi species that I have quizzed about, give the correct answer and some information about them all.
Good luck and next weeks quiz is about butterflies!
All photos are taken by myself.
I’m currently off school for my two week Easter break. I’ve been making the most of it by having my trail camera up at many different locations every night, visiting lots of local nature reserves and going on day trips wildlife watching.
Yesterday I found myself in the sunny East Midlands. I started off at a Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust nature reserve at Attenborough. Here I managed to get lots of photos of the waterfowl, the visitors to the different feeding stations, the landscape and have a look at their super new Sand Martin hide! This was the rural part of my adventure as I then found myself watching out for peregrine falcons at Derby Cathedral which is located in the heart of Derby city. I visited the Cathedral looking for peregrines last year and I saw a pair together. Unfortunately I didn’t see the falcons this time but I will be returning in the next month or two as they have eggs in their nest and it would be great to see the fledgling young. Here’s my blog post about when I last visited – https://georgiaswildlifewatch.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/the-derby-cathedral-peregrines/
Here are the photos that I took whilst out yesterday.
On Monday night I set my trail camera up in my garden for one of the first times since last Autumn when the hedgehogs went into hibernation. When I had set it up a few times over the past few weeks I had no luck and the hogs were obviously still in hibernation but last night I managed to record the first one for Spring 2o14. Over the next few weeks I hope to get the old Autumn visitors coming back so I can record them on my trail camera. Here are two of the videos which I recorded, In one of the videos the hedgehog is doing some very unusual behavior and in the other he is eating a mixture of the dried dog food and meal worms which I left out. On Tuesday morning before I collected my camera I also had a magpie visiting which I captured on camera.
On Sunday night I decided to set my trail camera up around a local nature reserve in the hope of recording foxes. I know there are foxes in the area as I’ve seen and heard them here in the past, so I set my trail camera up and put some dry dog food down. This was the second time in the last few days I’d set it in this area but the first time I had no luck. When I returned the next morning all the food had gone and as soon as I got there my dog, Max, started to roll around in the area in front of the camera so I was pretty certain foxes had been there through the night. But when I looked at what I had recorded I hadn’t recorded anything but a mouse! I’m not sure If it’s a field or wood mouse as the quality isn’t very good and he’s so small. To have not recorded foxes I think my camera had obviously stopped working at some point in the night but I’ll be back soon for some fox footage!
Here’s some of the videos I got of the mouse:
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