Pernature with Isaac

🪶    Bea rde d Ree dli ngs 🪶 A male bearded reedling in it's natural  habitat, a reedbed Bearded reedlings are a small, charismatic member of the tit family... or are they? Until the late 20th century, Britain had 8 species of tits, bearded tits, blue tits, coal tits, crested tits, great tits, long-tailed tits, marsh tits and willow tits. Bearded reedlings were known as 'Bearded tits' due to their resemblance to long-tailed tits, and were placed in the the tit family, Paridae. However, in the 1980's and 1990's studies showed that both bearded tits and long-tailed tits were not actually in the tit family, but rather the Panuridae and Aegithalidae families respectively. Bearded reedlings live, feed and nest in reedbeds. Their diet varies by season, in Spring and Summer usually consisting of: small invertebrates, such as midges, beetles, flies, moths and insect larvae. In Autumn and Winter, however, their diet mainly consists of reed seeds, as well as ing...

Per [ Na ture ] 🌿                          Hello, my name is Isaac Perna, I'm 11 and I live in a small village in Buckinghamshire, England. Ever since I can remember, I've been passionate about wildlife, nature and everything about the natural world. This passion was taken to the next level in the Summer of 2024; when me and my Grampy visited Knepp Castle Estate in West Sussex. Seeing the incredible rewilding efforts there sparked something inside me, and now I'm planning my own rewilding project in my area, with a team of seven other wildlife-zealous people. I want to inspire young people to take action in their area, and to show age doesn't matter; but with a lot of passion, anything is possible. My blogs will be about:        Exmoor pony at Knepp Castle Estate, West Sussex, one  of their many natural grazing animals           •   Nature and Wildlife •  Rewildi...

Aesculapian snake Aesculapian snakes in Britain                              If you were to ask any expert how many species of snakes there are in Britain, the most common answer you'd get would be three; the barred grass snake, adder, and smooth snake. However, when you look closer, the facts say different. Around 300,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene, the aesculapian snake - an arboreal (tree-dwelling), rat-eating reptile - went mysteriously extinct in the British isles. It's thought that it was due to drastic cooling in the region, with glaciation over a substantial amount of the country. After the end of the ice-age, temperatures warmed to conditions that aesculapian snakes could once again thrive in, however because of the flooding of Doggerland (the land bridge between Britain and continental Europe), it was impossible for their return. That was, until the 1970's, when individuals escaped from the Welsh...