Naturalist Musings!

I started my Nature Diary to try to identify every type of flora & fauna on our five acres back in August 2008.

In this lovely journal I have now identified:

61 Insects
15 Reptiles & Amphibians
9 Shrubs
54 Wildflowers
5 Mushrooms
14 Mammals
30 Trees

35 Birds

Some pages are pretty fair, some sketches a bit pitiful but I have loved creating this journal, my nature diary.

Thanks to the pandemic I have been filling in additional details – such as which plants are larval food for caterpillars and the like! The journal entries are now 161 pages, plus the index at the end.

2 comments

What an awesome and inspirational project, Marianne.

You loved creating the journal and I loved glimpsing into it. If a copy was available for sale, I would surely by it as a reminder about the power of science and scholars like you.

Steve Cuspard

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