Tony's Blog

Elms in a Brighton street. 27 September 2013 In a word association game, anyone given the word 'Brighton' will inevitably respon...

Lepidoptera - butterflies and moths - are familiar to us all from early childhood. We soon recognise butterflies, such as the Comma, as they...

Adjacent to my friend Harry Ferminger's house is a pond with a surface area of around 500 square metres (Does that make it a small lake?...

Ash tree in Oliver Tynan's garden Byfield, 10 September, 2013 My friend Oliver Tynan has a lovely garden. One of the most attractiv...

I suppose I make two or three visits to Byfield Pool each year. It is a nature reserve of the county Wildlife Trust but gets very little pub...

It is evening in the late summer or early autumn and you are just settling down to watch some television when, out of the corner of your eye...

I have had few opportunities to examine any plants of Common Ragwort ( Senecio jacobaea) recently. They seem to have been a little less freq...