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a few projects around the home meant that I wasn’t able to visit the moss until the end of the Month which turned out to be quite beneficial as I was rewarded with some really nice sunny weather at the end of April. The nice weather had meant that the pools under some of the...
The signs of Spring are certainly arriving now. I am writing this just after mid March and this morning’s walk found the first batch of frog’s arriving in the main pond. Some of the smaller ponds hidden in the trees have yet to warm up enough to entice them out. Buds are starting to break...
Not a great deal has changed between January and February. It’s been a very mild winter this year and so far there has been very minimal snow. The swans that had appeared in January are still here and there has been a definite increase in birdsong as they start to prepare for the breeding season....
Tailend Moss is a lowland raised bog situated between Bathgate and Livingston. Every so often I feel I should have a year long project – most of which don’t get past day one. I have been visiting Tailend Moss now for many decades so I feel that I would like to record its development over...
Having never walked the area for around 12 - 15 years I found that the old orange coloured shale bings have completely disappeared under a plethora of new growth.
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