CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

 Some pictures from a walk last week in the Derwent Walk Country Park, Winlaton Mill, Gateshead. Silver birches and willows, seen from the t...

  Magpies have nested at the bottom of our garden annually for about twenty years. Until last year they returned every spring to the massive...

A couple of days ago we watched this aerial dogfight between a crow and a sparrowhawk near Wolsingham in Weardale. The sparrowhawk was...

Not the birds ............. the sky .................  blue Still adjusting to the novelty of it, after weeks of grey skies  ....... ...

Yesterday, when we were walking along the river Tyne at Wylam, a cacophony overhead drew our attention ...

The willow-leaved (or weeping) pear tree Pyrus salicifolia in our garden has received its annual pruning this week by crows...

We have a weeping pear ( Pyrus salicifolia ) tree in our garden which is regularly targeted by crows for materials for n...

"Turn east, then travel three miles as the crow flies ...". How often have you heard that expression? Where ...

A combination of cabin fever, after too many days of snow, and a burning desire to break the mould of our typical Christmas led us to take...