The last month has been a bumper one for fledglings. Almost all the eggs of garden birds have hatched, and the young have started to be...

Each month we’ll be providing practical tips and ideas to encourage and protect wildlife in your garden. In July, your garden will be...

After the arrival of the first swallows and house martins by mid-April, the swifts arrived just before the end of that month and started...

What a strange spring this has been: mostly wet, often cold. By mid-May the tallest poplars, some of the still-living ash, and even our...

The tree planting project organised by Chilton Foliat Parish Council moved a step further when Councillors Ann McMath and Paul Outridge...

In March we had a hunt for Ramsbury’s wild daffodils. Most of the daffs you see on verges and other grassy places are cultivars, the...

As Peter has mentioned, the first swallow was seen on April 7th, and a very tired and thin bird it was. A few days later the first house...

We held the second meeting of the Chilton Wildlife Group in the Village Hall on 2nd March, well attended by many members of the local...

The group of around 500 golden plovers are still in residence on Spring Hill but will be returning to the moors of Yorkshire and Scotland...

We associate fungi with autumn, but early spring has some too, especially jelly-fungi, named from their jelly-like texture, and...

Our snowdrops were late this year. By mid-January the white ‘drops’ were showing and ready to blossom. And then nothing happened. From a...

Avian romance is in the air. In the garden we have two robins that are very much a pair and should shortly start nest building ready for...

The last few weeks have been dominated by rain and strong winds. Several people have asked me, ‘where have the birds gone?’ Heavy and...

The fieldfare and redwings have finally arrived and joined the hundreds of golden plovers on Spring Hill. If walking in the conditions...

The bitter weather in December gave us winter landscapes we haven’t seen lately. When the maples along Newtown Road finally gave up their...

The bitter chill of the second week in December was followed in the New Year by days and days of mild wet weather. Mild enough for the...

This is really interesting.

Nature! Having said that the golden plover had not arrived on Spring Hill, they turned up the next day. There were around a hundred to...