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Social Distancing Week 1, Buff-tailed Bumblebee I had great plans this year to visit several parts of the UK looking for new insects, unfortunately the plans have come to a halt. I have decided instead to search locally, avoiding as much human contact as possible. Fortunately I live in a quiet area of North Yorkshire…

The week before last, I wrote a couple of blogs about my visit to Cheltenham racecourse for the first three days of the Cheltenham Festival (of racing). Those blogs were about birds and about people and this blog is about betting; next weekend I will post a blog about horse welfare. Horse racing is about…

It is only March, and I hope to read lots of brilliant books through the rest of 2020, but I am pretty sure this volume will be in this blog’s list of books of the year. It’s a slim volume, fewer than 200 pages of text and quite well-spaced text at that, but it packs…

Tim writes: unlike most owls, Asian Barred Owlet is a daytime-active species.  It sits around on open perches like this, and drops down onto its prey, which is usually large insects, but also lizards, small mammals and birds. It also goes by the name of Cuckoo Owlet and its scientific name Taenioglaux cuculoides translates as…

You might be stuck in doors, so why not take a journey with Ian Carter to the Hebrides via The Fens and Devon, or with me from Washington DC to Los Angeles, or, again with me, from Houston Texas back to Houston Texas via New York State and California – all collated blog collections you…