Goodbye 2020, hello New Year!

2020 was the most rubbish of years without doubt. The pandemic put a stop to all the planned nature journalling sessions with BCN Wildlife Trust over the spring and summer, and it's looking like we won't get going again until maybe spring this year.

But, in all the gloom and hard times, there has been a silver lining, in the heightened appreciation of the benefits that the natural world can bring. On the last day of the year I enjoyed a walk around the fields here in my corner of Cambridgeshire. The weather had turned very cold, and the freezing fog had barely lifted all day, but still there was plenty to appreciate.

Amid the muted greys and greens, the hedgerow fruits really popped with colour - there are lots of crab apples about, many still on the trees and plenty on the ground, a winter store of food for lots of wildlife. And a nice treat was a fox, nose to ground, back and forth over the frozen field, looking for a meal no doubt - another splash of colour in a foggy, frosted landscape.

A record of my walk for the last nature journal entry of the year.

Bring on 2021!