A group of six people are walking through a meadow in June, sharing a delight in the flowers and, together, trying to remember what they are all called.  A woman posts a picture on the local Facebook group of a woodpecker on her bird feeder and exclaims that it was a wonderful surprise.  A couple […]

British small mammals include mice, shrews and voles. Most are common enough in the wild, but we rarely get to see them; perhaps only a glimpse of a creature scurrying through the vegetation. For good reasons or not, voles are probably the most endearing of these small mammals. Even ‘Ratty’ in The Wind in the […]