Nature
This is the time of year when spiders seem to be very noticeable, whether by their dewy early morning webs or the vision of them scuttling around our bedrooms and bath tubs!
The Painted Lady (Vanessa Cardui) arrives in the UK from Africa every year.
Our own native honeysuckle is found throughout Ryde cemetery. The common name comes from the Old English hunigsuge or ‘honey-suck’, because the ‘honey’ (or nectar) can be sucked from the flowers.
The 30th year of the RSPB Birdwatch saw a record-breaking half a million people take part, making it the biggest bird survey in the world.
In February the crocuses began to appear in the Cemetery bringing some welcome colour and a promise that Spring is not far away.
For the second year RSHG members took part in the annual RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch.
After a very cold night the sun came up on Sunday 7 December. The cemetery looked very picturesque and it made for a pleasant walk.
Early evening on Saturday 20 September this bird settled on a headstone in Ryde Cemetery and let me take its photograph.
For the past week or so this little mouse has been coming to feed on the peanuts in the bird feeder hanging on the hedge between the garden of the Lodge and the Cemetery.
