Category: birds

“Spring: The music of open windows.” ~ Terri Guillemets The cheerful vibrancy of yellow daffodils has given way to the softer white, pink and lilac colours of tree blossom and…

“Springtime is the land awakening.  The March winds are the morning yawn“. ~ Lewis Grizzard For gardeners, the arrival of March arouses a sensation others savour only at Christmas. Winter…

While we are spending more time at home and in our gardens, this makes the ideal time to get our hands dirty and get ahead with gardening projects in our…

 I did not intend to refer to the weather yet again, for the rain has been incessant; the wind up to gale force at times and a constant grey pall…

I don’t know what it has been like this last week in gardens and allotments all over the country, but here we are still feeling the tail of Winter and…

With Easter approaching you may be itching to get out in the garden with all sorts of tasks already on your ‘to do’ list. As I write, the forecast doesn’t…

At last, the sun is shining, everywhere in the UK as well as here in the north Cotswolds from where I write this blog post. I walked around d the…

Snow over much of the country seems to be more prevalent this winter than in I remember in the past – in the 1980s I think when we hardly had…

Well the snow has gone, around here at least, but with closely packed isobars and a complex series of warm and cold fronts, we’re already experiencing strong winds. It’s set…

Hard on my decision to continue reclaiming the various mini-gardens within our acre of ground (as described in my ‘Plans & Dreams’ post of 29th December) comes the snow. Not…