I will forego writing as this is a LONG video. But I really enjoyed the crows and squirrels!!! It was all filmed in Hyde Park and St...

The force of the ordinary . . . can be obscured, reduced, or eliminated . . . by a lack of appreciation of the richness of its...

You can never see too many oaks; nor can you spend too much time in temperate rainforest. And so, Gary, Elise and I went-a-wandering back...

I have mentioned this idea before, but now I offer the quotation... I think it possible that some of the disagreements in the debate...

I actually conversed with two trees at Cabilla. the first was down by the water. This oak had a divided stem, and also I was thinking...

Ever since I first read about Merlin Hanbury-Tenison, his book Our Oaken Bones, and his project to restore the temperate rainforest...

There's a lane near the farm in Devon with a sign that reads "Unsuitable for Motors". I always referred to it as "The Unsuitable". It was...

No, not really. But I do blame the starlings for another avian pox dunnock casualty and my swollen hand after cutting my finger on a pot...

Charles I was on the throne the year that Willyam Snell died and was buried in Northamptonshire. Civil War was looming. It is strange to...

I spotted this rather lovely oak apple on the way to Kairos. I had already spotted something else. A victim of the hot dry weather....

A run around the poplar's copse where the Copse Oak stands. I greeted the oak, with some ceremony, as it happens, and looked up pleased...

This was a morning of TWO baby robins. This one was quite brave. I realise how much I like the word "little". I talk about my "little...

So, I will not pretend that I think this is any good. BUT, it is evidence that i am starting to shift and, what's more, there has been...

Now, I don't want to suggest that I was in any way disappointed, because Hayley Wood IS lovely. But I was hoping for some real oldsters...

The hydrangea I rescued from oblivion at the EURO last year. OK, it's not exactly a showstopper (yet) but I am happy that it's growing....

Something interesting today. I had just cleaned and filled a water thing for the birds and a blackbird hopped in to wash, very...

The Greek word for "truth" which literally means "un-forgetting" - allowing something to return from oblivion. Iain McG reminded me of...

More confusion. It was volunteering today, but because of the late bats thing, I decided to meet them on site after they'd done some...

At the reserve during the day, I learned it was the bat survey night. So, I went home for a few hours and then returned. But I returned...

It was my Kairos day. Yet another Kairos day. So, off I went to the Reserve. The butterfly of the day was the ringlet. Though I also saw...