CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  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,...

  When I first became seriously interested in natural history, about 60 years ago, the  Wayside and Woodland series  of nature guides , publ...

  This gloopy-looking stuff is Yellow brain fungus Tremella aurantia , growing on the dead branch of a tree along one of my favourite walks,...

  Excited male tree sparrow, displaying to a potential mate, in the garden earlier this week. Flitting around her, cocking his tail, trembli...