From the root to the treetop – trees are full of beauty and life:
You can start anytime with observing a tree or a shrub and everything that’s on it! Go to the page “Participate” to read what you can do. I’m looking forward to reading your contributions.
The Tree Year March Challenge asks you to observe your tree for 11 minutes.
But why 11 minutes?
Three good reasons for 11 minutes, no? Please put the link to your results of the Challenge as a comment to the initial post.
P.S. Wanna see the Blue Tit that’s filling the nest box with moss just above my Honeysuckle? Head over to the dreamfalcon blog.
Spring is about to arrive on the Northern Hemisphere. I believe that this makes fall arrive on the Southern Hemisphere. Whatever season you’re in, dear tree year contributors, I thought that we could do a challenge together:
Fill your bird feeders, take a chair and maybe your camera – or neither of this – but stay close to your tree/shrub for 11 minutes and note everything that visits the tree. Do this between the 21st and end of March as many times as you like.
Make a post on your blog, name it “Tree Year March Challenge” and comment on this post with your link. Don’t forget to mention date and time of your observation:
Eleven minutes with my Honeysuckle: March 21st – 1st day of spring – 6.56 am:
A light breeze through the already green and many leaves, and the first sunbeams of the day. Two male and one female House Sparrows at the feeder. No insects yet.
The Tree Year project celebrates three months
*if you twitter, please use the hash tag #treeyear – you can also follow the list of twitter supporters and/or contributors.
Wishing you great observations on your tree!
It’s about four months since our Honeysuckle got its last sunshine. The pot is on a balcony facing north and that’s why it doesn’t get any direct sunlight over winter. But today was the day, no fog in the morning and a ray of sunshine reached the Honeysuckle:
The feeder is being visited by lots of House Sparrows, a male and a female Blackbird, sometimes Chickadees and once I saw a Robin.
Today I want to share with you a wonderful 7 minutes film about forests and trees. It’s absolutely worth watching it: the information and the pictures are very good:
Of forest and Men by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Have you ever been thinking of what lives in a cubic foot of nature? A true and wonderful biodiversity view in Central Park, NY and four other destinations around the world. Photographer David Littschwager on National Geographic – outstanding.
And another Nature Spotting Website to join and be part of: iSpot
