Tag: Invasive

Giant hogweed – 30 Days Wild (8/30)

Giant Hogweed, River Frome, Bristol, May 2024
Giant Hogweed, River Frome, Bristol, May 2024

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Giant invader

impressive harmful bully

keep a good distance

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by Scooj

  • 30 Days Wild is an initiative organised by the Wildlife Trusts. It is an annual challenge event, for those who choose to participate, to do one ‘wild’ thing a day throughout the month of June. I will try to write a nature haiku every day if I can, as my contribution to this celebration of wildlife and biodiversity. I did this back in 2015 and thoroughly enjoyed the challenge.

Monk parakeet

Screeching green flashes

fly from palm top to palm top

busy nestbuilding.

 

by Scooj

 

  • A native of Argentina, this parakeet is quite at home in Barcelona which boasts the largest European population. Probably not entirely welcome, but suitably exotic.

Japanese Knotweed

 

Hostile alien

ornamental, unwelcome

in the native lands.

 

by Scooj

 

  • Edited because I can’t count. The word ‘hostile’ replaces ‘invasive’. Sorry fellow counters.