OM GIFTODDEN
Idag var jeg en tur ut til Malvikodden som ligger på andre siden av Malvikbukta fra oss. For 20 år siden kjempet flere av oss for å Bevare Malvikodden for fremtidige generasjoner. Dette var en fantastisk unik naturperle og et av Malvik Kommunes viktigste naturbiotoper, men til tross for at vi “vant” mot husbygging og tilrettelegging….mistet vi mye av verdiene etter skogen ble hogget ned, etter mange trær falt i en vinterstorm, og erstattet av sauebeite. Det er lenge siden jeg har vært på tur på Malvikodden eller Haugmarka, blir bare deprimert av synet…. Det var trist å se området idag. Jeg hadde fått tips at det var mye revebjelle (Digitalis) som hadde invadert området. Dette er en hageflyktning i Trøndelag. Det var store mengder revebjelle og jeg estimerte over 2000 blomsterstander. Dette gjenstår idag som den største bestand av denne giftige planten i Trøndelag (største observasjon ellers i Trøndelag i artsobservasjoner.no er 50 planter). En annen plante som har økt er tysbast (Daphne mezereum), også giftig. Jeg foreslår at vi døper om Malvikodden (Haugmarka) til Giftodden (Giftmarka)…..
Dette er et av flere viktige biotoper som vi har mistet lokalt her i Malvik iløpet av veldig kort tid.
Jeg kommer til å stemme i kommunevalget for partiet som virkelig tar tap av naturmangfold alvorlig….
Ekstra deprimerende var det også å se hvordan et av de beste edelløvskogene for fugl i Trøndelag
Se også http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=5190 og mitt stort bildealbum fra Malvikodden: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151959609890860.1073741968.655215859&type=1&l=a1a2728485
Yesterday at dawn sounded like spring again in the garden and I heard both woodpigeon (ringdue), robin (rødstrupe), chiffchaff (gransanger) and the two in the videos. The first is garden warbler (hagesanger). I’ve only registered this species in the garden a couple of times before and never so late! In the second video is a willow warbler (løvsanger). I can’t remember hearing this species singing in autumn either before.
My lovely daughter Avellana has been working at the Botanical Gardens in Trondheim this summer. It’s been lovely having her around and we’ll miss her! I made two salads on Sunday, the first for the BINGN students, the second as a parting gift….she travelled back to Oslo yesterday. She’ll be back :)
I’ve had a couple of close encounters with birds the last couple of days:
1) My local robin (rødstrupe) has been getting braver and braver over the last week and yesterday came and joined me and even sang to me…this is the robin’s sub-song, much more subdued than the main song:
…and it had something caught around one of its feet…I thought initially it was plastic, but it looks natural, so it will hopefully free itself. Perhaps it was asking for help? :)
2) I noticed this feral pigeon (bydue) on the driveway picking up seeds (birch?). I’ve never seen a feral pigeon before in the garden and I’ve never even see the common woodpigeons (ringduer), that breed in the garden, on the driveway. The only time I’ve seen a pigeon/dove before on the driveway was a probable rare Mongolian Turtle Dove a couple of years ago in winter. I started filming and to my suprise it walked towards me and passed very close and continued towards the house. This behaviour wouldn’t be unusual in the city centre, but it still took me by surprise.
I went indoors and watched it feeding outside the kitchen….and then suddenly there was a commotion in the living room. It had walked into the house and tried to fly through the window glass and was stunned hung upside down amongst the Begonias! I managed to grab hold of it and it flew off…
…and sat on the outhouse roof before disappearing!
It was a busy weekend. On Sunday, a group of 6 third year BINGN students, a three year biodynamic apprenticeship program in the Nordic countries were here for 5 hours. This was part of a one-week seminar close to Trondheim. Part of the education is to visit and learn from many farms and gardens around the Nordic countries. The education is in English and there were students from Hungary, Belgium, Finland, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Sweden! There were many questions and lots of discussion underway. We also provided lunch which, of course, included a salad! I knew a couple of them before as they’d been at the KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) Annual Meeting in April!
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
