Friday 23 March 2007

Tracking the Changes


Although it is only really convincing when years of observations have been obtained, I thought it might be fun to look at when certain natural history events (mainly concerned with flowers, insects and birds) occur in this South Wales region. In general the images will be in the sequence of the Scientific names quoted (the first named will be closest to the text).

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