Big Garden Birdwatch

I did it – did you? I saw some birds: House Sparrow (5), Long-tailed Tit (4), Blackbird (3), Blue Tit (3), Dunnock (2), Coal Tit (2), Great Tit (2), Collared Dove (1), Robin (1) and Goldfinch (1). Several species I expected were missing: Starling, Jackdaw, Woodpigeon… I have entered the data – have you?

Sunday book review – Seascape by Matthew Yeomans

The author walks from the Gwent Levels in the south to Prestatyn in the north of Wales, not by the shorter route of skirting England but by the longer one of keeping salty water to one side. This isn’t the only book of a coastal walk that I am reading right now – there is…

BSBI press release – New Year Plant Hunt 2025 results

Thousands of citizen scientists find hundreds of wildflowers blooming in midwinter Thousands of citizen scientists took part in the Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland’s fourteenth New Year Plant Hunt to find wild or naturalised plants flowering in midwinter. Their observations are providing us with robust evidence of how our wild plants are responding to a…

Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 53 by John Page.

John Page was born in the West Riding, a proud Yorkshireman and was taught to play cricket left-handed “ ’cos it flummoxes t’ bowler, and buggers up t’ field.” He went to university in London and Leeds, and enjoyed (most of the time) attempting to teach young people that there’s a big wide world beyond…