Tony's Blog

Time was when Woodford Halse was a small village - and then came the Great Central Railway. It had a huge motive power depot (An M.P.D. was ...

  .. .for Shaggy Parasols, Chlorophyllum rhacodes . In fact three species go by the name of Shaggy Parasol but the one we meet on our walks ...

Daventry is well blessed with False Acacia, Robinia pseudacacia , trees, and they are particularly prominent around the car park beside The ...

I visited our local pocket park - Stefen Hill Pocket Park - today. It was, by my calculations, the umpteenth visit and yet, as usual, there ...

Yesterday Chris and I visited our daughter Jacqui and her husband Dean, who are currently living in an area of Daventry known as Timken. T...

Byfield Pocket Park again. Well, you never quite know what will turn up. For those not familiar with sawflies, they are hymenoptera and th...

At the request of the parish council I have, for about a month now, been recording insects and other arthropods from a scruffy and neglecte...