Beginnings, middles and ends
All stories, even ones in gardens, have beginnings, middles and ends, as Anne is finding out...
All stories, even ones in gardens, have beginnings, middles and ends, as Anne is finding out...
Goose barnacles often wash up on our shores attached to flotsam after big storms.
A key species in the story of conservation, the avocet represents an amazing recovery of a bird once extinct in the UK. This pied bird, with its distinctive upturned bill, can now be seen on…
Their long narrow shells are a common sight on our shores, especially after storms, but the animals themselves live buried in the sand.
Investigate this series of Herefordshire nature reserves
The Great diving beetle is a large and voracious predator of ponds and slow-moving waterways. Blackish-green in colour, it can be spotted coming to the surface to replenish the air supply it…
The jay is a colourful member of the crow family, with brilliant blue wing patches. It is famous for searching out acorns in autumnal woodlands and parks, often storing them for the winter ahead…
Sphagnum mosses carpet the ground with colour on our marshes, heaths and moors. They play a vital role in the creation of peat bogs: by storing water in their spongy forms, they prevent the decay…
The turnstone can be spotted fluttering around large stones on rocky and gravelly shores, flipping them over to look for prey. It can even lift rocks as big as its own body! Although a migrant to…
Despite its name, the "common" skate is not so common anymore. In fact, they are Critically Endangered.