Tales of the Riverbank

Brown Moss Nature Reserve, completely frozen over. On the advice of BBC2's 'Snow Watch' I put on the lawn some apple alongside t...

New camera! I had a lot of bother with glare initially, till I taped a sheet of toilet paper over the lights. If anyone has any tips on how ...

In my experience it's very unusual to find many water vole signs over the winter months, but here are some I came across on a walk this...

This is the tail-end of a mad ten minutes, where a grey squirrel went bananas up and down our compost heap and in and out of the mahonia. I...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8346632.stm . Possibly a slightly misleading headline, as more recorded sightings doesn't necessaril...

Old otter spriant Not sure what this is: it's definitely mustelid, but had no detectable smell so could feasibly be mink. . Here's ...

Someone on the Wild About Britain forums told me this: that if you grab a wood mouse's tail, the skin sloughs off painfully, and then th...