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LOCAL BLOGGER OF THE YEAR

PATCH AWARDS 2017 WINNER!

BLOGGER Last year, nature bloggers kept us enthralled with their wildlife tales
AWARDS 2017 and now our Bloggers of the Month have been whittled down to one.

he 13 Local Patch
Reporters who won BBC
TWildlife’s Blogger of the
Month competition throughout
2017 made up our Blogger of
the Year Awards 2017 shortlist.
The judging panel of four
natural history TV presenters
– Gillian Burke, Lizzie Daly,
Ben Garrod and Miranda
Krestovnikoff – had the tricky
task of picking an overall winner.
The 13 Local Patch blogs they
read covered a range of wildlife
topics, from tracking the
seasonal changes in a garden
to visiting UK nature reserves.
Here we announce the
overall winner and the five
runners-up. To see the full list
of winning entries visit www.
discoverwildlife.com/news/
blogger-awards-2017

YOU CAN BE A LOCAL
PATCH BLOGGER TOO!
Post your blog updates on our forum:
www.discoverwildlife.com/forum A rare sea slug
enjoys a fish
egg supper in a
WINNER Cornish rockpool.

Heather Buttivant
I’m lucky to be part of a them when they’re close to
Cornwall, UK JUDGE’S COMMENT
growing network of keen hatching you can see each
Cornish Rock Pools citizen scientists recording baby fish staring out, its tail Finally, an in-depth blog
cornishrockpools.com
wildlife and promoting marine curled tight around its head about intertidal wildlife!
Cornish conservation. Knowing that my like a scarf. In May, my son Everyone loves rock-
marine life is blog is inspiring others to try and I were looking at rock pooling – but this blog
surprisingly rockpooling and to protect our goby eggs, which formed actually highlights how
rich. People beaches keeps me going on a black-specked carpet of important rockpools are.
often find it those freezing winter days when grey. It was only when I saw a I’m really pleased to see a
astonishing that any sane person would stay at tentacle move that I realised platform for the public to
it’s possible to see anemones, home in the warm! that I had discovered the learn about what they’ve
corals, starfish, lobsters, sharks very rare sea slug, Calma seen and even contribute
and bizarre sea slugs with just a Highlight of the year gobioophaga, feeding on to science. Brilliant!
decent tide and a pair of wellies. Fish eggs are fabulous them. The species is under LIZZIE DALY
My blog shares the thrill of things to photograph in a centimetre long and was
discovering this alien world. early summer. If you catch perfectly camouflaged.

106 BBC Wildlife February 2018