Sabre Wasp
June 25, 2022
Last week I was minding my own business watering the tomatoes in the greenhouse when an extraordinary beast buzzed past me. It must have been nearl...
A Nightingale Sang...
May 3, 2022
Nightingales; a lesson for our times.
Barn Owls - A Story Of Our Times
July 3, 2021
A rare venture into the world of charismatic megafauna! Experiences of the lovely barn owl.
Farming With Wildlife in Mind
November 25, 2018
Farming With Wildlife in Mind
This weekend the Times recommended Isabella Tree's excellent Wilding as one of its books of the year. It "forces us ...
Birds In the Garden
June 4, 2018
I'm a terrible birder. I recently went out to buy boxes for the House Martins I saw around us, only to discover they were Swallows. If I'm being ho...
House Sparrows
March 23, 2018
For fellow baby boomers, the demise of house sparrows is an obvious and distressing sign of the crisis in nature around us. In a week when we celeb...
Lodge Hill
October 6, 2014
I've often commented on how terrible our political class is at dealing with environmental issues. That's not a party political point but a general ...
Martha the Passenger Pigeon
September 2, 2014
Martha, the world's last Passenger Pigeon, died on 1st September 1914. The last wild one was seen by a boy in Ohio in 1900, who shot it. Passenger ...
Birds
July 5, 2014
I'm not a great bird expert, but I've been thrilled by the avian developments at Hookgate Cottage over the last few weeks. We've had swallows and w...
Cats Kill Animals
February 4, 2013
The cats kill animals debate erupted again last week. There was a study published in the journal Nature which suggested that cats were killing a lo...
Relating to Raptors
February 23, 2012
A learning experience
The New Barn Owl Box
February 9, 2012
A box of delight
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