dpack
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how does your local flora /fauna look ?over time i have seen a difference year to year .
have you ?
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cab
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Yeah. Every year its different.
What is abundant one year may not be the next.
Makes it fun looking to see what there is.
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Treacodactyl
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Re: how does your local flora /fauna look ? | dpack wrote: | over time i have seen a difference year to year .
have you ? |
Difficult for me to say as I'm learning things each year so see more each year but I bet it was there before and I didn't know what it was.  I hope that makes sense. I do notice things come up and out at different times, but not just earlier each year. This year for example most things seem much later.
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dpack
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indeed it does .
here we had a very mild autumn ,a bit of half hearted winter and
no spring .
always the end of winter but never spring is far worse than always winter .
warm a day or 2 then cold .
even the hardy ones like willow and birch are confused ,hazel was early to flower , the hawthorn has no clue as to what it should be doing
ground temperature dependant things like garlic , umbellifers and bluebell are a month later than last year .
the end of ice age leftovers are doing well .
adapt and survive (or be ommited from the future )
funny old world innit ? 
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Treacodactyl
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| dpack wrote: | | funny old world innit ? |
I think we'd be bored if every year was the same.
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cab
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| Treacodactyl wrote: |
I think we'd be bored if every year was the same. |
For me, watching for each species appearing each year is rather like waiting for old friends to arrive. And just like waiting for friends, I get impatient when they're late 
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dpack
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lots of my old friends seem out of order (so to speak ).
the year with no spring (except the wet sort )
the celendines have only flowered in the last week but i ate hawthorn flowers and buds 5 weeks ago . hazel before that but the scots pine is still waiting to check if it is safe , budded , but not burst .
the willows have pussied later than the last few years (sneeze )
japaneese knotweed is late and sickly looking
the king fisher is out and about though , the birds are a mixed bunch , only the hardy ones are getting on with it , no swallows ,swifts etc .
there is a fly hatch from the river but again only the very hardy , not the mob . the trout are filled with snails and tiny invertibrate things , and coldness" please pluck me from the water and heat me with fire " .
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gil
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The hares are a month later this year - doing their mad March thing in April. Last year, they started in February.
Lambing : for some reason, round here, there are far more triplets than normal, and fewer singles. Noone seems to have done anything different with their ewes - indeed, it's seen as a bit of a pain, with ewes only having two tits (so twins are ideal). What usually happens is that you take a triplet off, and put it to a ewe with a single. Can't do that as much this year. The fields around my bit (valley ground, as oppposed to hill) are a-leap with triplets still all with their (birth) mothers.
Daffodills are much shorter this year (in height). And later. The grass is late in getting away, and it is still too cold to put the beasts out to the hill.
Hazel was early here too. Fruit bushes are close to leaf burst. Nothing else so far. Buds not even that fat.
Every year, you get a big harvest of one thing, something else fails to appear completely, and the rest is more or less as usual. Different every year. Last year, no crab apples, no damsons, loadsa sloes. This year.....?
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dpack
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more triplets ?
wow
every place is different
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gil
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| dpack wrote: | more triplets ?
wow |
I know. You'd think that if the ewes weren't getting enough forage or the weather was too harsh, they would have reabsorbed one of the lambs in utero. Still, it has been quite mild, if foul here, albeit with a good few nights well below zero.
Just to put some figures to the situation : one of my neighbours has 650 ewes. He had them scanned before lambing. 200 were recorded as carrying trips, 100 singles, and 350 twins. Even some of the ewes scanned as having twins turned out to have triplets.
The fields are full of lambs
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dpack
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the must be a mechanism for that but i dont think i know it
not chance ,if it is on that scale
my locaL TREES ARE 2 MONTHS LATER THAN THEY HAVE BEEN FOR THE LAST DECADE . SORRY TO SHOUT BUT .. ODD
hit the wrong button 
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