This is my nature table, although mostly virtual because its not a good idea to pick wild flowers any more and my photography isn't good enough to catch birds way up in the air.
First some Pheasant feathers
We called these Shirt buttons but the proper name is Greater Stitchwort.
These were so common back in the 60's not quite so numerous now, but there are a few on the road verges close to home
Cowslips aren't as prolific as primroses but there are a few down the road from home
I can almost always hear them singing way up above the field beside my meadow. Sometimes it's possible to work out where they are but too high for photos. When I walked the footpath across the field on Monday,
I spotted 3 all singing and rising vertically. The clip below isn't mine, I've borrowed it from
I wonder what will be on my May Nature table? (it's another way of filling a blog post!)
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Sue
I like your virtual nature table! It's original and this time of the year nature is certainly bountiful. Everything is really green and beautiful in your area now.
ReplyDeleteWe need some rain here now to keep things green
DeleteWHat a beautiful nature table. I used to have one too and the children brought in so many interesting things for it.
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I thought it would make a good idea for a regular blog post!
DeleteThe Skylark has a lovely song - even here on our estate we have a wealth of bird song this morning.
ReplyDeleteI can always hear them - often too high to see.
DeleteI've never seen so many primroses as I have this year. X
ReplyDeleteThey are just beginning to fade here now
DeleteWe had a nature table too, and during the summer holidays my brothers and I created our own at home. It normally included a stickleback or two fished from the River Rom in a jam jar which survived for about a week. I wonder if they still swim where we used to collect them.
ReplyDeleteWe always collected tadpoles but always too many so they ended up eating each other!
DeleteI love just to stop, look and listen. Walking my furry black friend this morning had to stop and gaze up into a wild cherry with goldfinches darting in and out then a bit further on a thrush was belting out in the top of a conifer down a footpath I hadn't tried before. Delightful.
ReplyDeleteI love to see goldfinches on my niger seed feeders
DeleteLovely. I remember nature walks and the nature table from my junior school, the walk into the woods was close to the village school. We used to bring specimens back, the flowers and twigs would be placed in water filled milk bottles or jam jars and labelled other items laid on the table and labelled, drawings of them would go on the wall behind. It's a lovely memory:)
ReplyDeleteWe didn't have nature walks - there were only two teachers in the little school so I guess it wasn't feasible
DeleteDidn't Country Living run the Nature Table campaign to try to restore this to schools? Such a good idea, and I love seeing your virtual table!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if they have them in schools now
DeleteI love your Nature Table I always pick up feathers. I remember when my Carol was a brownie or guide and was doing her collectors badge and she picked flowers and pressed them and wrote the names down and put them into a book (I am sure it is still about somewhere - it would be 40 years now) it was a lovely holiday and we all lea not a lot that year, of course now you must not pick flowers now.
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We used to press flowers and then forget which book we'd put them in!
DeleteWe also had a nature table at school which must have been a part of the curriculem back then. Our walk to school was through the village so there wasn't much to find, but one of our lessons, if it was fine, was to go to a country lane near the school and find things for the table. There was always great excitement about being out of class and competing with one another as to what we could find.
ReplyDeleteI love cowslips and prefer them to primulas, don't know why. I also love nature in all its forms being tame or being wild.
Cowslips are so pretty
DeleteI used to love helping fill the nature table at primary school, and I lived in inner city Manchester. There were still things to collect though, feathers, pebbles, little branches, snippets from gardens and little creatures.
ReplyDeleteSticky buds from the Horse chestnuts were favourites
DeleteSchools didn't need a curriculum in the 1940s and 50s; they taught with common sense and followed their instincts and we came out the better for it.
ReplyDeleteI, for one agree, Rachel.
DeleteWe had some pretty awful teachers at Primary school - old and waiting for retirement
DeleteThey obviously got something right for you though.
DeleteI used to love collecting feathers as a child. I always wanted to do something with them, but could never think what though!
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DeleteIt is a Linnet. I have a nature table in my Shedudio. Feathers and snail shells mainly.
ReplyDeleteI knew you would know - thank you
DeleteEvery single day your posts are a joy and inspiration.
ReplyDeleteVisiting sister in Woolpit tomorrow, ooh hope I see some primroses and cowslips.
Happy Easter Sue
Oh thank you, what a lovely comment. You might not see many flowers on the side of the A14 but should be several on the back roads
DeleteYour mention of shirt buttons took me right back to country walks with my Mum and Grandma. They had names for so many of the flowers (as you say much more prolific then) but one I particularly remember was bread & cheese for what I now know is common mallow. They used to eat the little heads, in fact I think there were various things they used to eat as we walked along but I'd be very reluctant to do that now!
ReplyDeleteI thought bread and cheese was the tiny new hawthorn leaves! Primrose flowers are supposed to be sweet - but I haven;t tried them
DeleteWe used to have lovely names for the common wildflowers didn't we Sue.
ReplyDeleteJust remembered speedwell were birds-eyes
DeleteWhat a lovely post. I saw my first robin on Tuesday so hopefully Spring will show up sooner or later - we had snow flurries today so winter is still not finished with us just yet!
ReplyDeleteLove the virtual nature table. Like Margie we are seeing our first robins this week.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
I well remember the Nature Table at our school - and having to open all the windows when it was Autumn, and "Toadstools" had to be brought in, and Trish and I found a particularly ripe specimen of Stinkhorn!!!
ReplyDeleteI taught my children nature study but I think Tam is the only one who still has an interest in that direction.
I love the idea of a nature table! I keep my finds on the window sills all winter, only clearing the treasures off to their jars each spring when I do the big window wash and put in the screens. This year my collection is mostly pebbles and $1.06 in coins; the seaglass seems depleted, perhaps we have scavenged it all?
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I love to hear the song of birds but I must confess that I do not always identify them correctly. Beautiful song of the Skylark!
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