Wild Heart Hill

05/12/2025

🌿✨ Spot the cranberry… look-alike?

You can totally see why the guelder rose is also nicknamed the cranberry bush even though it’s not actually related to cranberries at all! Nature loves a good case of mixed identities. 😄🍒

These bright red berries aren’t just pretty, though. They’re little travelers! Birds snack on them (especially after a frost sweetens them up) and then ahem redistribute✨💩✨the seeds far and wide.

Would you have mistaken it for a cranberry? 👀👇

16/11/2025

01/11/2025

Wow! This is the first moonbow that we have seen and it’s out there right now!

A moonbow is a rare lunar rainbow formed when moonlight, not sunlight, passes through raindrops and bends into color. Because the light is so faint you don’t often see the colours.

Moonbows need perfect conditions: a nearly full moon, rain or mist opposite the moon, a dark sky, and just the right angle of light.

Moonbows have been known since ancient times. Aristotle mentioned them in Meteorology around 350 BC, and the Greeks associated them with Selene, the goddess of the Moon, who rode her silver chariot across the night sky — leaving trails of light in her wake.