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Wildlife through the year: March
The little green book that accompanied my childhood was “Wild Life Through the Year” by Richard Morse. It was published in 1942 and I particularly like the sketchbook page for every month. So every month I am showing these pages on my blog and making my own observations, based largely on my 2010 city garden. I don’t get out much! Read earlier months here .
So far this year has been great – I have always observed nature but I am finally starting to identify some plants and birds I know but can’t name, or have heard of but can’t recognise.
Traditionally we have March winds and they say if March comes in like a lion it will go out like a lamb. But as with February this year, it has not been a typical month. Not much wind, but a lot of the rain we would usually have expected in February.
Then on the last two days of March we had gales in some parts of Britain and heavy snow in Scotland. So it was in like a lamb, out like a lion, then.
As befits the month of St David’s Day (March 1), our national feast day in Wales, it is a golden month, as golden as the saint’s daffodils. In our garden there are also primroses and lesser celandines and next door’s forsythia tree is in flower. There are also bumble bees around.
The blackbird so unusually quiet in February, finally found its voice again on the first day of March and by the end of the month was prominent in the dawn chorus, the song thrush now taking something of a back seat.
While the thrush repeats words and phrases over and over, the blackbird seems to sing in whole sentences, having a conversational tone. Lying in bed half asleep and listening, you can imagine the male blackbird telling its life story, listing its conquests over the years and how many offspring it has had, and what happened to them, and its close shaves with cats, etc…
As well as the thrush and blackbird, in the dawn chorus I can now recognise the robin and as the sun rises the great tit, coal tit and blue tit.
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