Chris. Packham’s soul searching as to whether the time has come for direct action re climate change and potential biodiversity collapse in the face of government ‘drifting’ on the matter seemed to come to a rather inconclusive conclusion. That is not to belittle the man who is doing such good works and using his public […]

Today’s photo shows three curlew feeding with their long down-curving beaks in the muddy foreshore of the Humber Estuary on a flow tide. These the largest of the mudflat waders of the Estuary, winter numbers can be inflated by migratory birds from Scandinavia. Their beaks probe for invertebrates living in the mud revealed at low

A selection of six different fallen leaves collected just this morning while walking the dog in the park. Top right is an oak leaf with a short leaf stem at the bottom of which is the remnant of the leaf joint; the rounded leaf edges are a good identification tool. Below and to its left

The classic changes of autumn are slow to unfold this year. Horse chestnut trees, their leaves changing to russet brown in late August, are still clinging on to quite a lot of their dry brittle leaves. The beech tree (near me) seems to still have a dense leaf cover although the leaves have have turned

The photo above shows the stump of one of Pearson Park’s evergreen oak trees. Not a victim of the gales recently (s.p.b.) but rather of the unrelenting rain. The mature tree, almost certainly dating from the original planting of the 1860s, was a victim of its own ‘design’ in that with clinging-on to much of

The word ‘green’ has come to be a general term for biodiversity, Nature, wildlife and so on and implies support by people for those things and sadness at their loss. It’s an obvious term and has been around for a long time. Also it’s not an ‘ology’, although it encompasses ‘ologyies’,and is therefore accessible to