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Looking at daubenton's bats in the cellars of an old castle, I came across these hibernating herald moths.
All over the land caravans and campers are being prepared for relaxation of laws to prevent the spread of COVID-19. This is the first one I've seen moving for a very long time.
"England: Our earliest site opening date will be the 12 April.
We will be initially opening our campsites without facility blocks. If you have a booking between the 12 April – 16 May you must be a self-sufficient camper (one household only) with your own facilities - our toilets, showers and communal areas will be closed until 17 May.
Wales: We are opening our campsites on the 1 April for campers who live in Wales. Sites will not be able to take visitors from England, Scotland or Northern Ireland until travel restrictions have been lifted in those countries and Welsh guidance allows for visitors from other nations.
We are initially opening our campsites without facility blocks. If you have a booking between 1 April – 30 April we are advising that you must be a self-sufficient camper (one household only) with your own facilities - our toilets, showers and communal areas will be closed. We have asked for further clarity on facility block opening dates and will update our advice accordingly.
Scotland: Our earliest opening date will be the 26 April, subject to any wider tier restrictions that remain in place.
Northern Ireland: Restrictions have been extended until 12 April and we are awaiting further details.
Across all Nations: Our Ready Camp Safari Tents, Pods and Selected Self Catering Accommodation will not open until the 17 May at the earliest."
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Low temperatures make ladybirds inactive during the winter and many tuck themselves away to avoid the cold. Some may even huddle themselves together in groups. RSPB
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I spotted this in the garden shed! After doing some Googling, I think it's a queen wasp hibernation cell.
"All worker wasps die out during the winter; the only wasps that survive are the queen wasps. Queen wasps hibernate during the winter inside the old nest or construct a small “golf ball” sized hibernation cell. "
Locomotive - Shay #4
Cass Locomotive Shop
Cass Scenic Railroad State Park
Cass, West Virginia
Quite possibly one of the coolest state parks I've had the opportunity to visit the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park is a park with 8 operating locomotives that run though the old logging routes of the West Virginia mountains, old dilapidated steam engines and rail cars, an abandoned lumber mill and a fully restored lumber town. Here Shay #4 spends her winter months in the shop getting ready for the summer tourist season. Shay #4 began service at Birch Valley Lumber Company, Tioga, West Virginia in 1922 and represents a typical Lima Class C-70 locomotive built for West Virginia loggers during the 1920's. This is the first of many images that will be presented from this outstanding state park, but most of the rest will be those of abandonment.
Found this fellow today. Guess, he was too small to continue his hibernation and woke up. Snow is over a meter deep at the moment, so the odds were against him. After some consideration I took him home to keep until proper spring starts. So, now we have a new pet to look after :)
P.S. I am not sure about the animal's sex but hedgehog is masculine in Russian, hence he is he.
I put my garden ornaments in the garage today so they will be protected from damage during the winter. These rabbits are the oldest ones & are treasured keepsakes. They look very scruffy now, but will be cleaned & painted ready to go out again in spring.
"Miss Vanessa" of Cape Porpoise is out of the water for the winter but still in pretty surroundings.
Oh, ye...umm...new technologies always have problems in the very first times. But there are older solutions, too...
I was looking under carpets of moss and found a group of these wasps in hibernation. I think they are female Ichneumons ?
pattern by Follow the white rabbit. I used backstitch, chain stitch and french knots for this. The bear is stitched with variegated DMC floss.
2012-01-29 Lower Austria, district Gänserndorf, Danube National Park
The European Pond Turtle remains in torpor when temperatures fall significantly below around 5° Celsius, but they don't stick to the mud and ground of ponds, as most people think (me too, I also thought so). It has been proven by zoologists that movement under the ice is nothing extraordinary at all, as I was told by Maria Schindler (from Danube National Park management, Emys preservation department): European Pond Turtles moving slowly under the ice are a normal occurrence - only thing is that it is difficult to make such observations, as you don't usually have ice as clear as we had this year, also ice could be covered by snow. Also, of course, this species is rather rare even in the National Park, so observations aren't an everyday occurrence even under best conditions.
The only special thing about this shot then is that I was lucky finding some under clear ice, and even more so, as Maria Schindler told me, that not only grown-ups but also adolescent turtles were gathered here (a whole "family", so to speak).
so this turned out... better than I thought it would but not as good as I wanted it to. Inspired by Joel:)
I'm out of practice. I need another 365 or something to keep me going. I'm planning a 100 Days of Summer thought. I can't wait!
We had a snow day today due to about a foot of snow. Right after all the snow melted... yay. But I'm not going to complain about the day off :) So i took it as an advantage to take this (required lots and lots of time and setup and editing), practice piano, go for a run (vigorous, yikes I'm tired), and now I have to do my homework. I'm the kind of person who always gets a lot of stuff done. I have a mental schedule in my head everyday of the days events and priorities. And I always stick to it. I like that about myself. I get everything done. And usually have time to spare.
We are hibernating during January and February 2015 in India (Goa, Hampi and Kerala) so I will be posting vintage books in March again.