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Wrens are tiny – you’d get 45 Wrens to the lb and 100 to the kg – and yet they have a hell of a song. If a Robin sounds as though it is singing to another Robin about 10 feet away then a Wren sounds as though it is trying to reach the whole…

Yesterday evening at 8pm I stood outside my house and clapped. I didn’t do this last week as somehow I missed the fact that it was happening. I was early, I’m always early, I got to the gig at 7:59pm and there was already one guy, down the road, clapping away so I joined in….

I’ve been looking for a website like this one and a friend in the USA sent me the link. This (above) shows the top of a much bigger table and I have ranked the countries (rows) by their value in the right hand column – deaths/million of population. Note that already China has dropped out…

Nick Ballard’s interest in butterflies and moths evolved exploring the hedgerows and fields, streams, ditches and ponds, meadows and verges that formed the great outdoors where he lived as a child – Selby, on the river Ouse in Yorkshire. He first worked as a computer operator in Cambridge in the Computer Aided Design centre and…

There have been nearly 68,000 comments made on this blog since it sprang into life in spring 2011. Over 9,000 of them have been by me – replying to your comments. The rest have been made by several hundred folk – it would be a very time consumting exercise to work out quite how many…