This beautifully coloured wasp usually appears at this time of year exploring the bee hotel in my garden. Ruby-tailed Wasps, also called Jewell Wasps, parasitize the nests of solitary bees and wasps. The female enters the host’s nest and lays an egg in each cell, the lava will then eat the egg or young larva…
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Wild food (40) – Raspberry
Having completed almost a full year of local gleaning and browsing I thought I’d round off this series with one of the best of all wild foods – one that can be found widely, if rather sparsely, across most of the country. If they are not quite a match for the taste of wild strawberries…
Sunday book review – The Knowledge by GWCT
It was very sporting of GWCT to send me a copy of this book to review (I had to ask, but they sent it very quickly). Readers of this blog may well have their own copies of this book already but I thought it worth a brief review for those whose bookshelves lack it at…
Tim Melling – Hawk Owl
This is a Hawk Owl landing in a tree top in Sweden that I took in May this year. They occur at low density in the boreal forest zone right across Europe, Siberia and North America. I think that they are the only owl that is most active during the daytime. Other daytime owls are…
National Parks in British Wildlife
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My column, Naturally Opinionated, in the August British Wildlife is about National Parks. It should drop through your letterboxes around 18 August – subscribe here. More on this subject when the magazine is out.