Author: James Common
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The Essex Wildlife Trust’s Pound Wood, like so many ancient woods, is a special place and for different reasons. It is special for being somewhere…
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Owing to a diverse mosaic of habitats, including plentiful dead wood, Gosforth Nature Reserve is a fantastic place at which to indulge a fascination for…
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Few wildflowers capture the imagination quite like our orchids. They’re beautiful, of course, but also sufficiently scarce to provide a little jolt of excitement whenever…
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A couple of weeks ago, I walked part of the North Downs Way with a friend. Not a particularly unusual event, normally, but many of…
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Wildlife gardening has become somewhat of an obsession of late as we attempt to make our urban ‘yarden’ as appealing as possible to all forms…
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For a ages, I have read the blogs of others who have visited the Prudhoe Spetchells yet, shamefully, have never visited myself. Until now.
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Spurred on by the gradual easing of lockdown restrictions, this weekend saw us venture inland to the wild reaches of Allen Banks
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We have been on somewhat of a quest this year to transform our little urban yard into a plot beneficial to wildlife. Planting a range…
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For me, one of the few positive aspects of our current lockdown has been the opportunity to look closer at the wildlife that persists close…
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In line with the government guidance, this week, time in nature has been squeezed and condensed. A few short forays to my local park and…
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My walk through the woods has become significantly more important for me since the announcement came that the country was going into lockdown. The song…
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It certainly feels like Spring has sprung in my little corner of Newcastle: garish daffodils of all shapes and sizes adorn the roadsides, House Sparrows…
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Our garden (if we can call it that) was a barren old thing. Little more than a few square meters of concrete fenced off and…
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Last weekend, I had the pleasure of catching up with the long-staying male Black-throated Thrush at Whipsnade Zoo, in Bedfordshire (a long way from home…