October 2017

Yesterday visited a craft fair at Burton Constable Hall, central Holderness, East Yorkshire. So long since I had been to Burton Constable Hall that it was in effect a first visit. The event was held in part of the stable block of buildings, as the room was so large and showed no signs of past

On watching the sheep in the field between this road (A1077) and the clay-bank of the Humber Estuary, on watching the birds at the bird-table (see above), on watching the dozen or so ducks on the ‘Beck’ in Barton and on numerous other occasions in the past I have noticed evidence of varying personalities among

Following on the theme of a few days ago Andrew Robinson gave a very good presentation on trees in Barton on Humber to the local civic society last Friday evening. His slides were excellent, and because they had been deliberately taken when few people or vehicles were about, e.g. Sundays, they focussed attention on the

Above is part of the cover of an occasional newsletter published by the ‘Animals Asia’ international charity. The principal aim of this charity is to rescue close-caged black bears that otherwise are kept in this state all their lives so that bile can be extracted from their abdomen, this being an ingredient in some traditional

How amazing, yet how predictable, that the warnings about potential damage to property and transport from the remnant of hurricane Ophelia should happen exactly 30 years since the ‘Great Storm’ of 1987. Whereas the worst affected areas in 1987 were the south-east and southern East Anglia (15 million trees blown down) in 2017 it was the

At lo, or late ebb, tide the part of the central Humber Estuary at and around the mouth of the River Ancholme can be seen a mass of water-fowl, mostly on the exposed mudflat extending east of the remnant of Reed’s Island but also on the exposed lower River-bank, at the water’s edge or swimming on the water