Believe it or not it is possible to see two of the UK’s most elusive and endearing mammals while you are out and about this summer, especially if you visit the Highlands of Scotland…

Now before we get started, I have [...]

We’ve all been stuck inside for far too long. Seasonal affective disorder has had its annual airing in the media and after record-breaking winter temperatures, the days are warming. Nature too has noticed these changes and as a result has [...]

It can’t have escaped anyone’s notice that there is currently something of a car boot sale going on in the UK – with the government selling off anything that isn’t screwed down. The justification for this is open to conjecture [...]

Every year, organisations monitoring everything from bird migrations to climate change rely on observations and survey reports from people like us to help them build up databases. You can’t have failed to notice the media coverage of the RSPB’s Big [...]

You’d be hard pressed to have missed the media reports on the plight of the red squirrel. The fact that it’s cute, small and photogenic certainly helps to attract public interest, but it’s their continued hounding from native habitats by [...]

It looks like things are looking up for Britain’s water voles.

This compact and furry little animal was the model for Ratty in The Wind in The Willows. But, sadly, since the 1990s its numbers have fallen from around seven million [...]