Last week I gave you half of the story with regard to the “backyard” themed blogs in the NBN, those based in the United States. This week we travel abroad, as close as across the northern border to beyond any number of oceans to see what the rest of the community is seeing just outside their backdoor. Consider this post a companion to the one before, the completion of a project two weeks in the making.
While we in America may be rightly proud of our big backyards, backyard culture is alive and well elsewhere in the world, especially among those nature lovers who attempt to bring a portion of the outdoors to the easiest accessible location, home. Wherever that may be.
photo from wikipedia
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- Shirl’s Gardenwatch chronicles her adventures in her yard in Scotland. Her hedgehogs and Tawny Owls certainly seem more exotic than my squirrels!
- From Oxfordshire, also in the UK, comes Hagbourne Wildlife. Lots of lovely shots of insects and other species sans backbone here.
- Fox-hunting used to be popular pastime in the British Isles which thankfully has fallen out of favor. The public must have taken the cue of Words at Everything is Permuted and realized watching them is much more interesting.
- Started as way to chronicle the ongoing development of a pair of nesting Blue Tits, Blue Tit Big Brother has since expanded to covering more aspects of life in a garden and beyond.
- Most backyard nature watchers are avid gardeners as well, Adrian at Gardening Zone 3b is no exception. The site is meant to be a journal of the trials and triumphs of naturalistic gardening in Alberta, Canada.
- Part of the appeal of the backyard or garden is the comfort level you can attain with every living thing in it. That doesn’t mean we can’t dream of strange and exotic gardens though, and Wildbytes from India can help scratch that itch.
- Even more exotic might be Australia’s Daintree Valley. When your backyard is 30 acres of rainforest, there’s really no telling what you’ll turn up.
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Next week I’d like to take on another region of the world and the blogs that inhabit it. Next week, I’ll be looking at blogs from the Southwestern United States. So nature bloggers from Arizona, New Mexico, and appropriate parts of Nevada, Colorado and Texas, please send me your URLs to naswick (at) gmail (dot) com, if you’d like to be included.
Til next time!
