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Feel like hibernating?

At this time of freezing temperatures and food scarcity, it’s tempting for us to behave like some animal species and go to sleep.

Woodpeckers have evolved a incredible adaptations that help protect their brain from injury.

The story behind the return of the water vole is a tale of two semi-aquatic mammal species, not one.

Bats’ use of echolocation to navigate, and hunt insects at night is simply mind-blowing in its sophistication.

This summer, wasps have been noticeable only by their absence.

Recently, I have been waking up early, often to a cacophony of gull shrieks outside my window.

Who needs TV soap operas when you have wildlife in the garden?

I have been struck by the wide proliferation of cowslips – it strikes me this is a bumper year for this spring flower.

The brimstone butterfly is typically the first butterfly of the year to emerge and widely regarded as the ‘harbinger of spring.’

There has been a lot of rain; there is standing water wherever you look; it has been a tad damp underfoot.