Tales of the Riverbank

 My first stinkhorn! The smell is truly unbelievable.  Juvenile house sparrow which flew into my lounge and then started squaring u...

A moment away from voles: I was thrilled last week to interview Kate Humble about her new book Humble By Nature , which tells the s...

 Droppings ALL OVER this pallet. Whoever lives here is making a statement. Baby blackbird in our garden. I...

 Edgeley Road vole  Above: burrow, feeding and droppings at Mossfields.  Latrine at Black Park Road I went to che...

 Baby water vole  Adults for comparison A lot of vole traffic yesterday - at least two adults but I suspect more, plus ...

 Male Brimstone  and a Green Hairstreak, both Whixall Moss  Buzzard and  song thrush, both at Wybunbury Moss  ...

 The second of two Edgeley Road voles from this afternoon.  Above, three Edgeley Road latrines and below, a feeding sta...