I love nature especially plants and fossils, I have always enjoyed finding things on walks and have brilliant memories of the Nature Table at school and searching for treasures to take in for it. I regularly come home with pockets full of shells pebbles rock and fossils, the house has the feel of a museum. I wanted to share the natural world in a diary form and a virtual nature table . Hope you enjoy the finds.
The warm weather has bought out the bumble bees and they were flying around any flower they could find . Hopefully we might get a nest in the terracotta bird box in the garden as we did last year , they were fascinating to watch.
Today has felt like plants are growing as you watch them, buds have appeared and burst within 6 hours. Four Brimstone butterflies have passed by , a small tortoiseshell was in the garden. Tonight around the lake bats were flying in the warmer air chasing insects.
Exploring the dunes at Aberffraw on Anglesey, memories of biology field trips looking at snails and violas. There they were again. Gorgeous place to explore.
This snail is not the ones we counted and recorded , that was the banded snail we did discover lots of these , some in piles that looked like part one biology students had been counting them all over again !
Banded snail collection heap , they look like they have sat there for some time they are faded but still beautiful.
Sunday afternoons were always exciting , after lunch it was time for an expedition, it might be to the woods , the beach or the fields . Every trip was full of discoveries and ‘finds’. These finds were ready for Monday morning when they would be carried with great care into school to be displayed on the Nature Table.
This table became a focus for exploring and discovering , it told stories, of the seasons , life cycles how things worked and changed constantly.
The Nature Table seems to have lost its position in schools and it feels as if children and adults have lost some of the wonder of the things that are around them every day . I have decided to regain that explorer in me and post a Nature table each week with discoveries and finds.
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