Late Afternoon Barn Owls
Late afternoon Barn Owls By Alex White Each afternoon around 5pm, just as the light is fading a Barn owl appears over the wildflower meadow. A barn owl’s Latin name […]
Surprise visitor to my local patch
Surprise visitor to my local patch By Alex White There was a colourful visitor to the village where I live today. Easier to hear than to spot, this Alexandrine parakeet spent […]
Appletons Wildlife Diary – The Raven
The Raven words by Alex White A few facts about Raven’s. Ravens mate for life and live in pairs in a territory. Young raven’s live together in flocks, until they […]
GET YOUR BOOTS ON
Get your boots on , the debut book from Alex White was launched one year ago today on the 3rd July 2019. One year on its still a good read. […]
30 DAYS WILD
30 DAYS WILD by Alex White Over the past few weeks of dry weather, we have had quite a few visitors to the garden pond. First, a female badger turned […]
GARDEN WILDLIFE
GARDEN WILDLIFE by Alex White PART TWENTY – WOOD MOUSE Over the past week or so we’ve noticed a number of the seedlings in the porch, especially the sunflowers, have […]
BROWN HARE
BROWN HARE By Alex White Hares (Brown Hare – Lepus europaeus) are one of my favourite animals, I love the gangly awkwardness about them. Around where I live we have […]
GARDEN WILDLIFE
GARDEN WILDLIFE by Alex White PART EIGHTEEN – HEDGEHOGS Over the past week, I have had my trail cameras out in the front garden in the hope to capture our […]
GARDEN WILDLIFE
GARDEN WILDLIFE by Alex White PART SEVENTEEN – BLACKBIRDS For a while I’ve been using a Birdsy camera to film the wildlife and in particular the birds in my garden. […]
GARDEN WILDLIFE
GARDEN WILDLIFE By Alex White PART FIFTEEN – RED KITES We have a number of Red kites on my local patch but when the fields are being ploughed like they […]
THE GARDEN
THE GARDEN by Alex White PART FOURTEEN – SWALLOWS The swallows are back on my local patch, one day later than last year. 2020 I first saw the swallows back […]
GARDEN WILDLIFE
GARDEN WILDLIFE by Alex White PART THIRTEEN – KESTRELS You can tell this is a female kestrel as she doesn’t have the blue/grey head that the male does. The Kestrel […]
GARDEN WILDLIFE
GARDEN WILDLIFE By Alex White PART TEN – BADGERS I quite often get asked how I individually identify my local badgers. It isn’t the easiest thing especially this time […]
GARDEN WILDLIFE
GARDEN WILDLIFE by Alex White PART NINE – BLUEBELLS In my garden, we have a mixture of Spanish bluebells that were there when my parents bought the house and native […]
GARDEN WILDLIFE
GARDEN WILDLIFE By Alex White PART SEVEN – VIEW FROM MY WINDOW I realise that I’m very lucky to have such amazing views from our windows. We live in a […]
GARDEN WILDLIFE
GARDEN WILDLIFE by Alex White PART SIX – FOXES Living in the countryside our local foxes run the gauntlet of fast traffic down country lanes and the gamekeepers gun, I’m […]