| Wildlife Traditions
We're currently building a calendar of wildlife traditions (both old and new) that Britons used to, or still do, carry out each year.
This will include a whole variety of seasonal events from making sloe gin, blackberry wine and wild strawberry picking to roasting hazelnuts, playing conkers and a complete calendar of national wildlife days.
Essentially, the calendar will include traditional events that dictated what Britons would do on a particular day, week or month of the year. The events will need to be wildlife-related, as opposed to processes from farming etc, but they can include everything from mushroom picking and fishing to observing the stars or predicting the weather on a particular day's events.
Many of these traditions will probably be local events that may only happened in a small area of the UK, so if you've know of any then please list them here and we'll add them to the page.
The end result will hopefully be a week-by-week calendar of events that everyone can refer to as a guide to the changing seasons and things to look out for, throughout the year.
Thanks
Stuart |