Essays on Nature

I was casting round for inspiration for this month’s column and thought I’d wander out and see what was in the garden.   I almost immediat...

I noticed something curious the other day.   There was a flock of gulls on the field at the back and they were all facing the same way.   ...

Wildfires in Australia are much in the news as I write this, and they will still be burning when I write this column next month.   At leas...

We saw a couple of thrushes on the field at the back recently.   They were quite a distance away so it was difficult to see what sort of t...

We’ve had a couple of moths in the garden recently.   Actually, we have probably had hundreds, we just haven’t seen most of them.   The tw...