Observations, thoughts and recordings of the natural world and our relationship to the landscape.
BERRIES FOR BIRDS
Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps
There are still berries about in the middle of the harshest season for wildlife. The weather has turned mild again and these berries will be welcome food for birds and rodents.
Part of the rocky dragon's back that runs inland from Roch across North Pembrokeshire, Plumstone Mountain is a dramatic jumble of rhyolite blocks that cries out to be climbed on. Thirty years ago the Open Spaces Society ( Britain's oldest national conservation body) won an access victory here over farmers who were unlawfully fencing-off common land... and it is known locally as a mountain, even though it's only 170m above sea level. Sent from my Blueberry ® mobile device
Apart from their potential for stinging humans and animals stinging nettles deserve to be promoted into the premiership league of super plants - nettles are the favourite food of many butterflies and are packed with nutritional benefits, Vitamins A, C and K and minerals including magnesium, iron and calcium. Clinical trials have proved the effectiveness of nettle root in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia. The wonders never cease - feeding less than 1% of dry nettle in chicken feed will colour egg yolks as effectively as synthetic pigments. Sent from my Blueberry ® mobile device
Comments