Tony's Blog

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...

The last school at which I taught had, in its grounds, a very large Indian Bean Tree, Catalpa bignonioides . In July it bore masses of its l...

I have, for some time, been considering a blog on the subject of the Hornbeam, Carpinus betulus . There seems no logical reason for this a...

I made a visit earlier today to Byfield Pocket Park with the intention of continuing my survey of an adjacent patch of what had been sheep...

Such botanical expertise as I possess is underused and rusty so it was pleasing to met two out-of-the-ordinary species today. Something to ...