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A blazing start to October will this week turn to a more traditional autumnal month , with forecasters predicting snow in the UK before Christmas - yes it's just a couple of months away! So, it's time to put away the shorts and crop-tops and dig out the woolies and hats with ear-flaps. If...

Hi all, on my travels recently i've taken a healthy number of dodgy pictures of birds and bugs. Rather than just press delete I figured why not give you a chance to test your ID skills. So here are just a few to have a go at, i'll post the answers a bit later this week.

I have just read that a rare Silurian Moth has been spotted and recorded in Brecon National Park. It seems that the moth hasn't been seen for 35 years and was thought to extinct. The report can be read here at BBC Mid Wales. http://tinyurl.com/3d3jxx7 Regards Mark

I was very pleased to see this Cinnabar early in the month, but not too sure about the grasshopper. When I say not too sure I was referring to the species, the ID/Type of GH. This thing was tiny!...I mean less than 1cm long. I ended up laying down in the grass to get the shot, I must say he was...

We're careering towards Feed the Birds Day at an alarming rate. This haste seems to have been maintained throughout 2010 and frankly, I'm looking forward to the Christmas holidays, which are... just eleven weeks away (sound of alarm bells and cash-tills )! A partridge in a pear tree is possible...

Hi there I thought I would open up a bug thread and post photos to ID This is one I found in my Bracket Fungi photo by a mistake. Is this a Weevil of some type? Regards Kathy and Dave

Photo taken on Sunday 01/08/2010 at Rainham Marshes A Predatory species of bug; feeding on a wide range of insects

Rural Britain is devoid of colour as traditional hay meadows vanish. A new report claims 97% of rural Britain's fields of buttercups, sorrel and clover with a variety of grasses have gone... and you know, I'm in full agreement. Consumer demand and mechanisation of farming gave us the ability...

If getting comedy right is all about timing,then my life's a tragedy.The day I go away on holiday I miss the peregrines on our webcam laying their first egg; they're presently sitting on four! Then on my holidays, a volcano erupts in Iceland, stranding my partner our three children and myself...

They say it's not over until the fat lady sings.. well in nature, it will be all over if the fat lady [ robin ] doesn't sing. Feed the Birds weekend has passed but it's not a one off activity, the weekend's a reminder to continue to put out food for garden birds all through the winter...