These people are always in my garden... apart from when I am there. The starlings have decided that though I am dangerous, they can just...

In the afternoon, before the visit to Oxford, I attended a Zoom meeting with the other members of the Finland cohort. Some incredible...

Thinking on this, with help from Dan Zahavi's book Self and Other.

A retirement dinner at my old college.

I have been noticing the influx of insects over the past weeks - about six weeks, I guess. Various different bees or bee-like people....

And a few days later... This is the rowan and to the right the top of one of the poplars whose roots I cut. All three maltreated poplars...

She seems to appear whenever I go into the garden and will actually hop quite close to me, as you'll see in the video. The other evening,...

Len Howard had the closest relationship with great tits. The great tits are not massively keen on me. Bobbit is a different story. I...

Yes, a visit to the park. These are the Unbraves. Once again, I left food at the back then walked round to the front and just called -...

This was filmed on 23rd March 2024.

I really do think that I keep photographing the same blue tit. It would not be that surprising: birds are, after all, individuals and,...

Almost. Actually, goldcrests are the smallest birds in this country. Wrens are the most common. I managed to capture a blast of song in...

These are all different pictures, but he sat there for ages. He knew I was watching but didn't seem to care. I had noticed a jay a day or...

Yes, in Aeolus, the Guardian Tree!

This came about as a result of the Bird in yesterday's post... telling me I needed to sit with feelings. I went to Pitsford looking for a...

I am very happy that as well as being invited to Austria I have now indeed also been invited to Finland! And my paper on trees will be...

Clare has adopted four lambs. Sarah, Mimi, Marshmallow and Flopsy (who's just out of shot.) Sarah likes having her chest scratched. When...

Yup - another Bobbit love-fest.

The light and dark of it.

Sometimes I get the feeling they really don't want their picture taken. And of course this relates to that whole question of whether it...