CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  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...