CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  The first fledging of the year in the garden yesterday - a very demanding magpie, with two harassed parents that were feeding it with worm...

  The wood pigeon breeding season in our garden never seems to end, but it reaches a peak in spring. Show-off parabolic flights, ridiculous ...

  Everyone looks forward to finding the first primroses, violets and bluebells blooming in spring, but the flowering of dog’s mercury  Mercu...

  An unexpected visitor to the garden bird feeder this week: a rook. They don’t appear in the garden very often, but when they do it’s usual...

    Stinking hellebore  Helleborus foetidus , malodorous but a wonderful source of pollen and nectar for the first bees to emerge in spring,...