I am guessing this is a juvenile herring gull. They are much bigger than the (rather prettier) black headed gulls (see the second...

I'd been to see my father and on the way home had some time to kill before a weight session with Leanne. I detoured through the...

Mr Playground

Actually, that's not fair on the cats. They also love me for my bodyheat and my stroking. And it must be tough living with a vegan when...

I can't express how miserable I am about Garden Robin keeping Tane at bay. It's beyond absurd. Or, well, I guess it's not: it's normal...

I went to see Robert Icke's Oedipus . This review gives it five stars and it deserves it. When I was doing my A Levels - and one was...

While I was at the Reserve today, checking trees, there was a shoot going on across the valley. It was so loud. The sheer violence of the...

Well, the robins are often unseen. Not least because I shot four minutes of video of Tane - all lovely close ups as he pecked around my...

A real Morrigan day - fitting for a becoming Crone elder. You'll see evidence from the video - not just about the ravens' cries! It's a...

The robins. Now this, and the one on the front, is Tane. That asymmetrical marking, with the shark's took whiteness to the left of his...

It's sad to see the Transformation Tree transforming into death, but instead of feeling those negative emotions when in the copse, I...

Oh you have to love the iridescence! Did someone say that starlings were the poor man's parrots? That might have been for their mimicry....

Apologies for the delay of a week! So, I started the day with a walk in Wytham Woods. It seems I was particularly interested, as so...

The fascination with attention hasn't gone away. Instead, I may be planning a little course on the subject. I need to work out how it...

I'm writing this before the Croning Ritual, though that will have happened by the time you read it. I've had a day in which I felt happy...

I said that I can't make sense of the robins; well, I can't make sense of the crows either. At the park, everyone was looking at me...

This book, Corporal Compassion by Ralph Acampora, provided me not just with inspiration but offered some validation for what I have been...

The dreamcatcher-making, about which I wrote in yesterday's post, was part of a study I am engaged in. A very lovely women is researching...

Talking of shadows leads me to think of dreams and I recently made this rather rustic dreamcatcher. The oak twig was donated by the...

My record of two trips to Pitsford. I was feeding the birds and checking Sentinel Trees. Had I found any badger activity, I could have...