" The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our Starlings, but in ourselves ......"

......I've fallen in lover with a spider.

Here in the Balkans, there grew a strange and mighty tree.....

They cruised into Sussex in May after a non-stop, long haul flight from Africa ……

Hawthrn is responding to cllimate change by flowering up to two weeks earlier than it was thirty years ago.

Wheatears have nothing to do with wheat or ears …. let’s just say they were named after their white behinds. Victorians and vicars bird watching in mixed company blushed when they were called upon to identify one, so their name was subtly censored.

When it comes to world-famous toads, it’s not a particularly crowded field, with only Toad of Toad Hall to contest the title …..

Holly has been eelebrated in many traditions over the centuries becuase, as. anative evergreen, its vibrancy in the dead of winter could easily be mistaken for immortality …

I’ve had a strange fascination with slugs since I was a little boy…..

Do your bit for the pollinators and they’ll keep the world working for us….