Hello and welcome to the Nature Garden Podcast, with me, Carl Stiansen, and the Weekending Show Team from Lionheart Radio.
It’s a chance to take a wander down the garden path and country lane… with the birds and the bees and the flowers and trees… and an opportunity to hear stories from the past and present…
In this episode… Tom Pattinson is floating like a butterfly to see what kind of plants and shrubs attract them to the garden…
Steve Lowe from the Northumberland Rivers Trust… has some tips on how to make your outdoor patch a haven for all kinds of nature…
Tom Cadwallender from the British Trust for Ornithology has been watching the amazing habits of sparrows and how egrets survived the fads of fashion
Plus some top tips for the garden from Tom P…
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Music link: Gaia by Carl Cape Band on Amazon Music - Amazon.co.uk
Hello and welcome to the Nature Garden Podcast, with me, Carl Stiansen, and the Weekending Show Team from Lionheart Radio.
It’s a chance to take a wander down the garden path and country lane… with the birds and the bees and the flowers and trees… and an opportunity to hear stories from the past and present…
In this episode… Tom Pattinson is floating like a butterfly to see what kind of plants and shrubs attract them to the garden…
Steve Lowe from the Northumberland Rivers Trust… has some tips on how to make your outdoor patch a haven for all kinds of nature…
Tom Cadwallender from the British Trust for Ornithology has been watching the amazing habits of sparrows and how egrets survived the fads of fashion
Plus some top tips for the garden from Tom P…
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Theme tune: Princess of the Ocean by Carl Cape Band featuring Steve Deegan, Carl Cape and Jamie Robb (fiddle).
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Carl: 02:01: Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count is a nationwide citizen science survey to help assess the health of our environment. It’s become the world's biggest survey of butterflies and you can still take part as it runs until Sunday 8 August.
Here’s Tom Pattinson with a butterfly’s view of the garden…
Tom P:
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Carl: 07:50:
In years gone by, birds were extremely popular as the material for millinery… people wanted hats festooned with feathers…and bird-inspired fashion was all the rage. Tom Cadwallender from the British Trust for Ornithology has been taking a look into the chequered history of the bird trade and how the little egret survived.
Tom C:
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Carl: 14:42: Over a hundred thousand citizen scientists took part in the 2020 Big Butterfly Count, submitting nearly a hundred and fifty thousand counts of butterflies and day-flying moths across the UK.
Tom’s been taking a look at how we can all help Butterflies to thrive in garden.
Tom P:
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Carl: 20:51: ‘Weeds’ are a treasure trove for all kinds of insects…and Steve Lowe from the Northumberland Rivers Trust is down amongst the nettles… at the Cresswell Pele Tower… and he’s got some tips on how to make your garden sanctuary for nature…
Steve Lowe:
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Carl: 26:45: Sparrows or spuggies as we like to call them round here are a delight that we take for granted in Northumberland… it’s a bird that we used to seeing but I was surprised to see one chasing moths the other day… Tom’s been taking a look at the surprising habits of spuggies..
Carl: 36:53: Here’s Tom with some things to be getting on with in the garden… Tom P:
Outro: Carl: 36:53: You’ve been listening to gardener, Tom Pattinson; birder, Tom Cadwallender from the British Trust for Ornithology; and Steve Lowe from The Northumberland Rivers Trust and Cresswell Pele Tower. I’m Carl Stiansen and we’ll be back in September after a summer break but you can still listen to the previous reports that we’ve done on the Nature Garden Podcast… enjoy your gardening and time outdoors with nature… bye for now.