Day 30 of #30DaysWild #Nature #UK
Time for reflection: what have I learned?
That even this year, at my most incapacitated following major surgery to improve #mobility , I can still take part.
Still offer my small observations.
Best of all, it's just possible that participating has had a positive effect on my healing. I'm very grateful :)
Day 29 of #30DaysWild #Nature #UK
Bird-listening is always my favourite activity for #nature.
I can do it anywhere and only need special equipment if I hear a new-to-me bird.
From my #urban home, in order of appearance:
Lesser black-backed gull (yes, inland)
Blackbird
Wren
House sparrows
Blue tit
Robin
Dunnock
Swifts
Magpie
Jackdaw
Wood pigeon
Day 28 of #30DaysWild #Nature #UK
Today is 4 weeks and 3 days since I had a #TKR (total knee replacement).
I've rested to let my body heal, I've worked at my #physio exercises, gone to classes at the hospital, done my homework.
I know we are all part of nature, but today I really *felt* it, both emotionally & physically.
Today I experienced a little of how a bird might feel on fledging: I felt the wind on my face as I drove again 
Just two streets, to visit a dear friend who supports me throughout, to beam and shriek and babble, "I did it! I flew!"
NB: If I could choose active travel, I would, but chronic conditions limit my mobility.
#30DaysWild
A marbled white butterfly nectaring on red clover
A slow stream of bumblebees passing back and forth from their nest beneath the shed
Mackerel sky, 24 hours dry?
Day 26 of #30DaysWild #Nature #UK
It's been fiercely hot here in SE England (30+ degrees C) so I've been flaked out, resting with the blinds down.
When it's this hot, the concrete parking area of the small industrial estate behind my home generates some proper thermals - my light relief has been listening to the Red Kites (Milvus milvus) circling and whistling.
They sound like this:
https://xeno-canto.org/829692
Day 25 of #30DaysWild #Nature #UK
It's 4 weeks today I had a #TKR (total knee replacement) and I'm amazed at my body's ability to heal & repair.
Back for another #physio session at the hospital: I silently greet the Scots pine trees every time.
#30DaysWild
Numerous meadow brown (too many to accurately count) & marbled white butterflies have emerged in this area of unmown grassland in my local cemetery.
Bramble flowers buzzing with bees & hoverflies
Swifts screaming overhead
Vegetation at high summer climax
Day 24 of #30DaysWild #Nature #UK
The weather has turned hot and sultry: #swifts have been screaming and circling the rooftops all day :)
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I seem to have an established colony of cinnabar moths in the garden since encouraging ragwort to grow. The flowers also attract many pollinators
Day 20 of #30DaysWild #Nature #UK
Another outing after #TKR (total knee replacement) for wound dressing.
I had time at the bus stop to enjoy the sunny day and trees in full leaf.
Certainly didn't expect to see cast herons as gate finials!
#30DaysWild (not been doing well on keeping up with this)
Meadow brown butterflies have emerged in numbers
Lots of honey bees and these rose chafer beetles pollinating bramble flowers
Looks like there will be some warm days ahead
„All I need is Schieferloch/ Schieferloch is all I need…“ 
#summerof24 #30DaysWild
Day 18 of #30DaysWild #Nature #UK
Three weeks ago today, I had #TKR total knee replacement surgery.
Today I went to #physio at the hospital and even managed a tiny wild moment afterwards :)
Day 17 of #30DaysWild #Nature #UK
I already knew beavers are eco-engineers and create habitat, but TIL water voles do too:
Day 16 of #30DaysWild #Nature #UK
I'm struggling with #pain today.
Birdsong provided the sweet moments that transported me:
Dawn chorus of distant herring gulls & close loud wren
Joyous shrieking swifts, zooming round the houses, back after a few cool showery days.
Today is day 16 of #30DaysWild. During #hedgewatch my humans found #flintstone/#flint/#Feuerstein
Pawesome
Flint is made of #quartz & forms often in #chalk. The silica is probably from the skeleton of #sponges. The exact formation isn't clear yet
#PawForScale
Cats seem to feel when people are sad and need a bit of cuddling. Met this young white cat on my way to work last night, and it ran straight at me and was very happy to cuddle 
Day 14 of #30DaysWild #Nature #UK
I focussed on my physio today, a vital element of recovery from #TKR (total knee replacement) as everyone delights in telling me.
Looking out of the window, seeking distraction, I noticed it was very much a day of sunshine and sharp showers, sometimes at once.
I know this weather quirk as 'a monkeys wedding', an expression I think I learned in South Africa. It's also called 'a foxes wedding' or 'a jackals wedding', mainly in India and Japan respectively.
Its proper name is 'sunshower' which is a bit obvious.
Bring on the celebrating animals!
Do you have a local or favourite term?
Day 13 of #30DaysWild #Nature #UK
Second outing since returning from hospital after #TKR (total knee replacement).
Supported by the same friend, a trip by taxi back to hospital for my first #physio session.
I saw:
Many yellow wildflowers (too fast to ID)
Three young starlings
Four wood pigeons
The town formal garden, with a stylised maroon poppy in carpet bedding and informal nodding Field poppies.
