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Welcome to Wild Barley, a blog and gallery of wildlife adventures.

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An Epic Easter Adventure

April 24, 2019

Good Friday. Just. Only a few hours into the Easter weekend and we were rising from our bed before the sun and heading to our reed bed site to undertake another ringing session. The clear sky overhead was already getting lighter, no longer the deep black midnight sky, hinting at the sunny day to come. … More An Epic Easter Adventure

March Nests

April 7, 2019

It feels like March has flown by and while last year we were in the grasp of the Beast from the East, this year the warm weather of February has continued. In March 2018 we were building snowmen, walking on squeaky snow and braving sub-zero temperatures, while the natural world seemed only to be just … More March Nests

A river ramble

March 1, 2019

An unseasonably warm February had brought out pockets of beautiful spring flowers, adding splashes of yellow and purple to the white clusters of snowdrops. Bees buzzed around patches of purple and white heather, and I caught glimpses of my first brimstone, comma and red admiral butterflies of the year. The sky was an impossible shade … More A river ramble