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Early Morning Wonders

The last three months have been pretty momentous with quite a few epiphanies, not least of which is the change in my pallet! I’ve been out of the grime and smoke of London for so long I have actually...

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Time to catch up

I’m not very good at keeping this up at the moment. The truth is I’ve just been too busy. Summer seems to be a weird time as far as nature is concerned. What you think would be a time of sustained...

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Back in the park

As I said in my last post I haven’t spent much time in the park recently, but at the end of June I spent a sunny Saturday, the first for about 4 weeks, in the park. It was a “Conservation Volunteer”...

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Climate change and idiots

The sun is shining, little fluffy white clouds cross the sky gently gambolling like happy lambs, trees sway gently in a light summer breeze, the smells of summer rise from the meadows, the sound of...

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Leave my Forest ALONE!

It’s a long time since 1997, and I suppose many of us forgot why we felt so happy about the demise of the Tory government. I’d even started to think about the end 80’s and the start of the 90’s as the...

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Why does 2011 feel like 1981!

I feel a rant coming on. May, so far, has shown (to me at least) that there is common misconception in the country that our politicians are useless but the best we can hope for. Only apathy makes this...

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A morning at Summer Leys

I had a great morning today, first time I was able to walk round for the first time in ages due to a few medical issues. I can’t say I saw much in the way of unusual birds, but I did get to see a good...

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Political parties pledge to plant trees

Political parties pledge to plant trees. Just  quickie. We need to make sure that ALL political parties support our woodlands no matter whatever else they have a policy so that our future is assured.

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Summer Leys

Heard, then saw my Second Grasshopper Warbler at Summer Ley's this morning, couldn't get a picture though Good morning otherwise: Reed Warblers Great Crested Grebe Common Tern (juvenile as well)...

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The Arab Depression

All things come to those who wait, apparently. Patience is a virtue, again, apparently. But is it? People have been waiting patiently for the Gaddafi regime to fall in Libya for 40 years, and it was a...

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