Summer is the time to look out for butterflies! Here's 10 UK butterflies to spot in summer with facts and ID tips.
Tag: wildlife
Swifts, swallows and martins: how to tell the difference
Swifts, swallows, house and sand martins will soon be arriving on our shores. They all look similar, here's a guide to telling the difference.
Guest blog: My Starling Joy
A wonderful piece of writing from my friend Chantal on the magic and silliness of starlings, a bird not quite like any other.
Starlings are the world’s best invention.
I feel obliged to tell you, first, that they are not actually birds.
They are monkeys dressed in bird bones and otter pelt, slicked with oil and dusted with shooting stars.
They remember being dinosaurs. Now watch them on the street, indifferent to all the towering apes, raptoring along the pavement.
Their bodies are living metal and they liquidly step, glinting. In their alchemy they are proud and they are jokers. Dinosaur and monkey. Petty pilferers of fruit peel and dropped crumbs. Stake-outers of the stalls where I buy my ginger and turmeric, and the car park of Ladbroke Grove Sainsbury’s.
And when they are not striding brazenly in your full view, they are hogging the airwaves. They are talking nonsense. They are probably discussing metaphysics.
Their language is as rich and heady as a river of champagne, bubbling and whistling and popping and…
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RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch 2018
A round-up of all the birds we saw during our 2 garden birdwatches over the weekend. Highlights included long-tailed tits and red kites!
How you can help protect the UK’s bluebells
The bluebells are blooming this time of year but they are in decline. We need to be act now to stop them disappearing.
