The Day I went for a walk.
Yeah it happens occasionally. I heard that there’d be some wildlife about. Just a few birds 
Radley Lakes is a nature reserve recently saved from being filled in with Ash from the Didcot Power station. It harbours lots of wildlife especially birds
Check out the rest on my Flickr
http://www.saveradleylakes.org.uk - SAVED!
Biologists at the University of Sussex have been analysing how effectively different species of flowers attract foraging insects.
Preliminary results have revealed there is a 100-fold difference in the lure that some popular garden plants have for honey bees and bumblebees.
The best plants are the Mexican giant hyssop, which was particularly good for bumblebees, while borage was best for honeybees and lilac sage was second best.
Wild marjoram and Greek Origanum were found to be most attractive to wild solitary bees.
Lavenders such as the white Lavender edelweiss and the blue lavender grossblau were also good for attracting the insects.
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Residents of Ishinomaki cooked on a makeshift grill in front of their damaged home on Tuesday.
Photo Kyodo News, via Associated Press
See more of the hundreds here :
Photos of Japan After Earthquake and Tsunami – Photographs – NYTimes.com.
The Japanese seem to be very strong and there seems to be a real sense of lets just get on with it and we can get through this. Despite every horror they must have seen and been through it is good to see them making the best of things like this
Breaking!!!! First Picture Of CYCLONE from a Tanker
Cairns : Australia | Feb 02, 2011
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8069596-breaking-first-actual-picture-of-cyclone-yasi-must-watch
Cyclone hitting land now at Mission Beach..
Google Map view of what is happening
http://mapvisage.appspot.com/static/floodmap/map.html#center=-17.86637013652945,146.98555755615237&zoom=9&layers=QldCyclone
Live from ABCNews
http://www.abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/
Just how big is this storm system?
Overlaid over map of the US ..
http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2011/02/02/1225998/819572-tc-yasi.jpg
and more..
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/floodrelief/north-queensland-braces-for-cyclone-anthony-as-cyclone-yasi-brews-behind-it/story-fn7ik2te-1225998711771#ixzz1CnIf8ZCS
Act now and help us save England’s ancient forests
http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/campaigning/save-ancient-forests/Pages/fc-disposals-act-now.aspx.
Photo: Alex Anlicker NATURAL WATEROnly 3% of the earth’s water is fresh, non-saline water. Of that non-saline water, 31% is accessible as fresh water. For every gallon of fresh surface water, there are 30 gallons that lie underground. The primary source of water for municipalities is ground water. Water is held in underground reservoirs known as [...]
An installation of rainforest tree stumps from the Tropics The Natural History Museum and Pitt Rivers Museum July 9, 2010 – July 31, 2011 Read More … ghostforest.org Ah I wondered what those trees were all about http://www.ghostforest.org/ Tweet
Australian Flood Disaster. This is a post to help boost the signal about the floods in Queensland. As of 6:41pm ACDST, 75% of the state of Queensland is declared a disaster zone. The news is reporting this as the greatest disaster ever and the worst is yet to come. I’ll update this post as information [...]
In Australia… Amazing footage of East Creek near Chalk Drive / Chalk Lane rising and washing away lots of cars during Flash Flood in Toowoomba on Monday 10 January 2011. This is some of the best footage I have seen of the Flood and was taken from the second floor of our office which backs [...]
QUEENSLAND is bracing for more disaster as the worst floods in two decades continue to wreak havoc, cutting off supply lines and leaving more than 200,000 people affected across an area larger than Germany and Poland. With the Fitzroy River at Rockhampton expected to peak at 9.4 metres tomorrow, the town was cut off from [...]
