A Corner Of The Barn Every moment spent in the company of my family is precious. For though I write, once a month, about what is happening i...

Pheasant At Barleycorn In our garden calendar, April is the month, which calls forth our trumpeting Daffodils to herald the onset of Spring....

Taz among The Snowdrops The month of February was mainly one of birdwatching, as nothing much stirred in the garden. Most of our plants are ...

Yellowhammers You shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace, and the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you. ...

Brambling And Sparrow Although tonight is the Hogmanay festival in Scotland, when we might expect our First Footers to pay us a visit, we ha...

Female Sparrowhawk At the beginning of November when the harvest bales had been gathered in and the adjacent field lay empty, a female Sparr...