Archive
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30 April 2020
Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Forty-four
“The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground”
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29 April 2020
Dunnock - Bird Song
The Dunnock is an overwhelmingly inconspicuous bird that in fact very much belies its meek and modest nature
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29 April 2020
Species of the day: Pied Wagtail
The chirpy Pied Wagtail is a bird summed up nicely by its name, though it has many others in folklore, including the widespread “willie wagtail” and charming “peggy dishwasher.”
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29 April 2020
Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Forty-three
I build a Grass Snake heap, go shopping for horse manure and get into another argument.
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28 April 2020
Species of the day: Hawthorn
With its distinctive leaves, the Common Hawthorn is a familiar sight amongst spring hedgerows. Its colloquial name of ‘May-tree’ is entirely suggestive of its typical flowering period
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28 April 2020
Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Forty-two
I film some egg-laying damselflies. It’s all rather fiddly.
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27 April 2020
Species of the day: Red Mason Bee
The Mason Bees are named after the characteristic habit of using ‘masonry’ products in the construction of their nest cells.
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27 April 2020
Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Forty-one
I count the Cowslips on the front lawn and scare a neighbour.
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26 April 2020
Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Forty
Results from our fourth Back garden Bird Race. There was no Hoopoe but there was a penguin. Seriously.
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26 April 2020
Species of the day: Blue Tit
With vividly bright plumage and a personable nature, the tiny Blue Tit is one of our most recognisable garden birds
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25 April 2020
Species of the day: Ivy-leaved Toadflax
The charming Ivy-leaved Toadflax isn’t a native British species, having thought to have hitched a ride on imported Italian sculptures and first recorded living wild in 1640.
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25 April 2020
Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Thirty-nine
Back Garden Bird Race #4 - with a short guide to our commonest garden singers. And Frank Sinatra.