Thorny
It was a pretty dismal day, and though R hauled himself off out for a walk, I really couldn’t be bothered. Instead I made a vague attempt to catch up on some of the administrative backlog that’s still hanging over … Continued
Golden boy
In another odd piece of synchronicity, here is the Boy Wonder kneeling under a beech tree this afternoon, searching for nuts, on the day when Chris Packham explained about mast years – that is, the cyclical fruiting of beech trees … Continued
Parent bug
This is the first parent bug I’ve seen since the previous generation began to come out of hibernation, back in the spring. Each summer I hope to get the chance to observe this bug’s unusual breeding behaviour, but I haven’t … Continued