The first cuckoo in winter: climate change and citizen science

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Meaning and feeling • As we engage with our environment we perceive meanings in it • These give things their value • These meanings become known to us through the emotions they induce • Our actions are a result of our motivations / values / feelings and therefore meanings Kay Milton 2002 Personal meaning Christine d’Albert from Herefordshire: for her birthday on 22 May her mother would always bake her a cake, poking drinking straws in the top and inserting a bluebell into each straw among the candles. ‘My memory goes back to 1944 ... In recent years I have watched bluebells flowering much earlier – more like 22 April and as early as 19 April in 2001.’ ‘A few minutes recording nature notes can give hours of pleasure, and I’m thrilled to know that they can be useful too in the study of climate change.’ www.naturescalendar.org.uk/findings/past.htm 14
Meaning-making: patterns, self-consciousness, and sharing “Has anyone seen hawthorn blossom this month? Last Sunday (01/10/2006) I found a section of hawthorn hedge with quite a few blossoms mixed in with ripe fruit ! ! ! ! Is this very unusual or have I not been looking too carefully in previous autumns?” 3 October 2006 “Marsh Marigold has a regular late flowering in the pond in my garden in Bristol, and is in flower now, but I haven't kept a note of dates in past.” 9 October 2006 “over the past four months … I have been watching a small group of 7spots ….They stayed inactive until the after the solstice but then slightly shifted positions during early January. At the beginning of February, more appeared and they were clearly moving around …What does all this mean? I think that the main cluster was just 'asleep' but became active when the sun became more constant and the temperatures rose. They then had to hide away when the snow (followed by heavy rain) with low night temperatures came in mid-February ..... Some may have died in this shifting of positions. I wouldn't like to make too much of this sequence (although I have observed the same site for many years over the solstice period).” http://www.woodlandcommunity.org.uk/forums/messagelist.asp?commid=6&groupid=190&topicid=1060&fromloc=topiclist ‘How lyrical am I allowed to be?’ ‘I remember a particularly lovely late afternoon in October, … I was busy [monitoring the] hedge and then when I turned round … there was nobody else around and there was just the moon and it was clear and the sun and the sheep and it was just – absolutely gorgeous’ ‘I must have been a hunter-gatherer in the past because I love seeing the diversity of all the things in a hedge, that really turns me on, you can walk along and see all the different things at the different times of year, and that gives me quite a buzz, I mean actually spending the time looking at a hedge, the wonder of that, you know, that had an effect on my brain anyway, it’s soothing’ ‘you can get depressed you know if you look at the whole big picture, you just have to do what your little bit can be’ Participants in group discussions, Sussex and Leicestershire, 2005-6 15
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