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This short charming video by Andrew Clark (see here and here) is to mark International Bog Day on Sunday.

No, we aren’t going back to that well-known place to buy frozen foods but to that well-known country of Gyr Falcons, King Eiders and Brunnich’s Guillemots. Apparently, the traditional Icelandic Christmas dish is a Ptarmigan, but numbers have declined and so Iceland has imposed strict quotas on numbers shot.  Birds should only be shot for…

Plantlife, the charity which speaks up for the nation’s plants, says that it’s OK to pick these 12 common flowers (provided you don’t go beserk in the woods and fields of the UK). Three things you might not know about Red Campion according to Plantlife. Another alternative name from the Wildlife Trusts probably relates to…

I bet you immediately knew where the A’Mhoine peninsula in Sutherland is didn’t you? It’s where we might build a UK space port.  It is described as a remote boggy stretch of land by the BBC, The site may initially host rocket and satellite launches but commercial passenger travel could then follow according to the…

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.

Ralph Underhill is on holiday. It’s a good job that none of us is the least bit interested in football isn’t it? When France win tomorrow maybe that nice M. Macron will announce that the quinze juillet will forever more be fused with the quatorze juillet to form a deux-jours holiday. At least we (some…

Green Day’s 2004 song, American Idiot, has hit the UK charts to coincide with Trump’s visit to the UK.  You may be surprised to hear, but maybe not, that I am quite a fan of Green Day.        

Meadowsweet is one of the plants that Plantlife says we can pick! It’s in the Plantlife Pickable 12. This must be a common plant because it is another one that I can actually identify! And this is the time to see it – there was plenty in the boggier bits of Perth and Kinross on…