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02-10-2009, 11:15 AM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Norwich, UK
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| | | A rusty hello
A few years ago I lived in Essex, and was a regular visitor to places like Abberton Reservoir, Chalkney Woods in Earls Colne, Fingringhoe Reserve, Hatfield Forest, and was very familiar with the birds and flowers, and getting to know some of the fungi in the area.
But, this was 10 years ago. One divorce, two house moves, one to Norwich, three redundancies from good jobs, and a hip replacement has left me a bit busy, and I have not been keeping up with my wildlife watching.
I'm now a little bit rusty, but armed with my new digital camera (50th birthday treat, because my new partner dropped the old one), I'm discovering places within Norwich itself which harbour a wonderful variety of plants and fungi, along with the birds and insects.
Please bear with me, I'm so rusty I'm missing vital identification indicators. You'll see me putting pics up asking for ID of some obvious plants, some for confirmation, some because I've lost the knack. I didn't realise how much I had forgotten. There was a time I could come up with the names of the more common wildflowers with no effort, but after 10 years, my memory is letting me down, and I'm learning almost from square one again.
I'm looking forward to being part of this forum...which has been an enormous help to me already.  |
02-10-2009, 01:16 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Leigh, Lancashire
Posts: 5,591
| | | Re: A rusty hello
Welcome back TW ....... I think you might find your brain will begin digging up the things it once knew now you are getting back in the swing ....... isn't it wonderful - you can go away and experience all sorts of life altering changes but nature is still out there whenever any of us feel the need or are able to return to it ....... welcome - enjoy 
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02-10-2009, 02:58 PM
| | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Norwich, UK
Posts: 357
| | | Re: A rusty hello
Thanks for the welcome Pauline. I have no doubt I will awaken some long-dormant brain cells and kick them into action again. And there isn't a wrong time of year to begin either, always something going on... |
02-10-2009, 03:05 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Meols, Wirral
Posts: 1,470
| | | Re: A rusty hello
Welcome to WAB TW . I thought 'rusty hello' was a typo for rustic hello, but you really mean rusty! The plants should come back to you but you'll find quite a few scientific names have changed in 10 years. And wait till you get onto fungi... |
02-10-2009, 03:48 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Scotland/Spain
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| | | Re: A rusty hello
A warm welcome to WAB Teresa, hope your dormant brain cells wake up, most of my active one's took sympathy with the dormant ones.
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02-10-2009, 06:48 PM
| | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Norwich, UK
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| | | Re: A rusty hello
Thank you all for a lovely friendly welcome.
Treecreeper, I've been out looking at fungi today, and I'm already going mad trying to identify them.  One step at a time though... |
02-10-2009, 06:56 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Nairn,Nairnshire,Scotland
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| | | Re: A rusty hello
Hello Tereasa and a warm welcome to you we are a friendly crowd here and try to help each other out ,look forward to you input so enjoy yourself
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02-10-2009, 11:18 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Edge of the New Forest, Hampshire
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Hi Teresa. |
03-10-2009, 09:00 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Bakewell, Derbyshire.
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Welcome from me too. Hope you enjoy being with us!
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03-10-2009, 10:52 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Swansea, S.Wales
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Hi Teresa and welcome to WAB, look forward to seeing your images posted in the Gallery. I'm sure your going to enjoy it on here. | | | |
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