Nature
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.
May Meadow Flowers At this time of year the cemetery comes alive with meadow flowers and in areas where the flowers are allowed to grow it becomes a feeding ground for flying insects.
There was a heavy snow shower on the morning of Sunday 6th April 2008 and for a brief period, until the sun came out in the afternoon, the cemetery was transformed.
The results of the 2008 Bird Watch have just been published by the RSPB. Almost 400,000 people took part in the survey nationally counting over six million birds.
The primrose is one the first plants to come into bloom after winter and the name comes from ‘prima rosa’ meaning ' first rose'.
Snowdrops, or Galanthus, which means “milk flower”, to give them their correct name, are the classic winter flowering plant, loved by everyone.