Nature Notes 2003

16 December 2003 The song thrush and mistle thrush must have noticed something – they’ve started singing again in the early mornings and evenings. The song thrush, which is the smaller bird and the one which cracks open snail shells in your garden, usually sings from a low tree or a roof and seems to […]

Nature Notes 2002

‘Let’s start with an earthquake and build up to a climax’, was a saying attributed to the late film mogul, Sam Goldwyn. And we do tend to expect the end of a cycle to be a high point, even if we don’t quite demand the level of excitement Goldwyn was trying to insist on. But […]