CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  Magpies have nested successfully again in a hawthorn near the end of our garden and their fledglings, now well grown, have been harassing ...

  Buff-tailed bumblebees Bombus terrestris are nesting under a moss-covered pile of rocks in the garden. There were field mice living in th...

 There are lots of broad-leaved dock Rumex obtusifolius plants around at the moment with foliage that looks like this, resembling green lac...

 There were scores of these little chimney sweeper Odezia atrata moths flying in the sunlight in the hay meadow in Durham University Botani...

It seems like no time at all since the first butterbur flower spikes began to appear along riverbanks in early spring, but now they are read...