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First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Kenwood Corporation

Top five places to see rabbits

If you've read all about the secret life of rabbits in our May issue and fancy spotting some for yourself, why not try one of our top five lagomorph locations?Rabbits can be found in a vast number of quiet retreats dotted all across the UK and with an ... [Published Countryfile Magazine - May 17 2013]

Entities: Peter Rabbit, Lizard, Beatrix Potter, Kenwood Corporation

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Photographer Ian catches rare chaffinch on camera after Balmoral visit.. but thought it was Queen's budgie!

OIL worker Ian Cairns was on a walk with his wife and couldn't believe his eyes after spotting the white chaffinch.The Leucistic ChaffinchAN amateur photographer thought the Queen’s budgie had escaped when he snapped a rare bird at Balmoral.Ian Cairns ... [Published Glasgow Sunday Mail - May 13 2013]

Entities: Chaffinch, PHOTOGRAPHER, Ian Cairns

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Leucistic chaffinch near Balmoral

Leucistic Chaffinch in AberdeenshireOne of our readers, Ian Cairns, took this image of a bird, probably a chaffinch, apparently showing signs of leucism. Mr Cairns spotted this bird near Loch Muick on the Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire in May (NB, still ... [Published Wildlife Extra - May 09 2013]

Entities: Chaffinch, Ian Cairns, Scotland

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Tweeting, of the More Natural Kind

LONDON The sun is not yet up and there is a whiff of ice on the air. A fox strolls across frosty grasslands, silhouetted on a corner of Hampstead Heath, barely four miles from central London. The listeners gather.Who are they, with their parkas and scarves ... [Published New York Times - May 06 2013]

Entities: David Attenborough, Species, United Kingdom, Green Woodpecker, Grahame Madge

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

A hospital room with a view of eternity

‘A new valve, three by-passes and a week in a medically-induced coma later, I lay in a private room looking out on beautiful Dublin Bay, ferries going east and west across the calm waters. But all I wanted was to be able to look out on my own back garden.’ ... [Published Irish Times - May 06 2013]

Entities: John McGahern, Surgeon, Blackcap, Dublin

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

To be alone in the dawn chorus reminds us how precious life is | Henry Porter

Many of the birds that enchant us in our woodlands and gardens are under threat. We must cherish them International dawn chorus day is today. If that does not light you up, you should perhaps move to the latest coverage of Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 04 2013]

Entities: Blackcap, Cuckoo, United Kingdom, Nightingale

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

Sabre Holdings Corporation

Paris shopping centre opens green roof as French cities make room for nature

Vegetation on buildings increases biodiversity and cools temperatures but high cost and upkeep may prove prohibitive Thirty metres above the ground, thousands of flowers – bellflower, foxglove and spurge among others – are poking timidly through the soil, ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 04 2013]

Entities: Paris, Sabre Holdings Corporation, Substrate, Sedum, Biodiversity

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

100 years ago: Hunting for the troublesome aphid

As I brushed through the young sycamores, whose abundant, well-grown leaves form the most luxuriant foliage of the wood at the present time, my clothes were thickly spotted with green, red-eyed aphides. This troublesome insect with a long name, Drepanosiphum ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Aphid, Thomas Coward, Insect

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

Twitter back to original meaning

Wairarapa Times-Age deputy editor and chief reporter Don Farmer. Photo Lynda FeringaI got a real warm feeling when I read in the Times-Age yesterday that the Brits have decided to turn back the clock and allow the word "tweet" to revert to its original ... [Published Wairarapa Times-Age - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Species, Lories and lorikeets, Twitter

First reported Apr 21 2013 - Updated Apr 21 2013 - 1 reports

Chaffinch rules the roost but bird numbers on decline...

The Chaffinch was found in 93% of gardensNumbers of some of our best known and loved species of bird are continuing to decline, according the results of this year's Big Garden Birdwatch.In Fermanagh the chaffinch continues to rule the roost. It was found ... [Published Impartial Reporter - Apr 21 2013]

Entities: Chaffinch, House sparrow, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Species

First reported Apr 21 2013 - Updated Apr 21 2013 - 1 reports

“Joanne was always happy and smiling”

Tributes have been paid to a former Dinnington Comprehensive pupil who lost her battle with metastatic melanoma, aged just 29.Joanne Woodcock, of Chaffinch Mews, Gateford, passed away peacefully at Bassetlaw Hospice in February.This week her mum Susan ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - Apr 21 2013]

Entities: Shih Tzu, Chaffinch, Metastatic, Skin Cancer

First reported Apr 05 2013 - Updated Apr 05 2013 - 1 reports

Sparrows most common Derry birds

House sparrows and chaffinches are the most common birds in Derry gardens but experts have warned their numbers are on decline.The RSPB said the results of their Big Garden Birdwatch survey 2013 - which involved more than 10,000 people in the north counting ... [Published Derry Journal - Apr 05 2013]

Entities: Chaffinch, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Waxwing, House sparrow, Brambling

Quotes

...plants, tea estates, volcanic springs - the lush Azores are a natural wonder that makes me think of Prospero's island in The Tempest, full of "sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not"

The islands with green fingers: A horticultural break to the Azores [Published Mail Online UK - May 23 2013]

So enjoy the dawn chorus while you can and perhaps ponder as you do. "We have to look at life with respect and wonder. We need an ethical system in which the natural world has value not just for human welfare but for and in itself. The universe is something internal as well as external."

To be alone in the dawn chorus reminds us how precious life is | Henry Porter [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 04 2013]

...With a wider range of vegetation, it enhances biodiversity," says François Lassalle, head of the Planted Roofs Association (Adivet). "To take the process much further we would need more public-sector incentives."

Paris shopping centre opens green roof as French cities make room for nature [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 04 2013]

"We go to great lengths to ensure that special UK habitats are given the right levels of designation and legal protection because of their role in supporting threatened wildlife, but what's very clear is that every one of our gardens, the places literally on our doorsteps, are important too" he added

Chaffinch rules the roost but bird numbers on decline... [Published Impartial Reporter - Apr 21 2013]

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The islands with green fingers: A horticultural... [Published Mail Online UK - May 23 2013]
Celebrate the dawn chorus this spring [Published Coventry Telegraph - May 22 2013]
Sandersons Wallpaper [Published Miss Dinky - May 21 2013]
Top five places to see rabbits [Published Countryfile Magazine - May 17 2013]
Photographer Ian catches rare chaffinch on came... [Published Glasgow Sunday Mail - May 13 2013]
Mini nature reserve at Coldingham [Published Berwickshire News - May 09 2013]
Leucistic chaffinch near Balmoral [Published Wildlife Extra - May 09 2013]
Tweeting, of the More Natural Kind [Published New York Times - May 06 2013]
A hospital room with a view of eternity [Published Irish Times - May 06 2013]
To be alone in the dawn chorus reminds us how p... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 04 2013]
Paris shopping centre opens green roof as Frenc... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 04 2013]
100 years ago: Hunting for the troublesome aphid [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 28 2013]
Twitter back to original meaning [Published Wairarapa Times-Age - Apr 28 2013]
Chaffinch rules the roost but bird numbers on d... [Published Impartial Reporter - Apr 21 2013]
“Joanne was always happy and smiling” [Published NewsRT.co.uk - Apr 21 2013]
A sublime contagion [Published Aeon Magazine - Apr 19 2013]
Join the dawn chorus at Carnfunnock park [Published Larne Times - Apr 19 2013]
Is building work dust to blame for death of pets? [Published This is Somerset - Apr 19 2013]
Make your garden a haven for the birds [Published This is Devon - Apr 19 2013]
On The Menu: The Greyhound on the Test; Herradu... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - Apr 18 2013]
Bird’s eye view [Published The Moscow News - Apr 15 2013]
Sparrows most common Derry birds [Published Derry Journal - Apr 05 2013]
Scottish News: Fewer common garden birds recorded [Published Perthshire Advertiser - Mar 28 2013]
We need to talk about Kevin Eldon [Published The Independent - Mar 10 2013]
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Youngsters urged to put wildlife in the picture [Published Rye and Battle Observer - Feb 12 2013]
Tide of support for last phase of river walk [Published Suffolk Free Press - Feb 11 2013]
Going wild in country [Published Retford Guardian - Nov 30 2012]