Redwings foraging in Reykjavik city centre and Laugavegur street, Iceland

Redwings foraging in Reykjavik city centre and Laugavegur Street, Iceland Laugavegur Street is the main shopping street in Reykjavik, full of coffee shops, touristy gift shops, wine bars, cake shops and more. It was very busy in November when I was there. It was...

Solitary Bees By Ted Benton & Nick Owens review

Solitary Bees By Ted Benton & Nick Owens review This is my second review of a book by Ted Benton. I enjoyed the much smaller first book and when I asked him why he wrote the first Solitary Bee book, his comments were just as appropriate for this second book....

Wool carder bee, nesting and mating behaviour

Ladies first! Here I will explore the Wool carder (Anthidium manicatum) (Megachilidae: Anthidiin) females' behaviour, nesting etc. and then go on to the males. Unusually for solitary bees, female wool carder bees, are smaller than males and females generally emerge...

Dolphin watching at Lagos Portugal

Dolphin watching at Lagos Portugal Several businesses offer dolphin and whale watching tours sailing from Lagos in Portugal. We decided to go with Sealife because on every trip they have a qualified marine biologist accompanying you on their boats. Instead of hugging...

The Boardwalk from Lagos to Meia Praia

The wooden Boardwalk from Lagos to Meia Praia My wife and I watched spell bound as we were fortunate to watch the actual work undertaken during the construction of this beautiful wooden boardwalk. Although we have walked many miles on boardwalks in the area, we had...
Deluxe bumblebee nest box designed and made in NW England

Deluxe bumblebee nest box designed and made in NW England

All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes,  and wormeries. Deluxe bumblebee nest box, designed, developed and made in NW England. It nice to see there are still some manufacturers...

Deluxe bumblebee nest box and an unwelcome visit by a cuckoo!

Deluxe bumblebee nest box and an unwelcome visit by a cuckoo!

Deluxe bumblebee nest box visited by cuckoo bumblebee All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes,  and wormeries. Cuckoos and their rather anti social behaviour are known to many...

Sparrowhawk eating greenfinch in garden, watch video

Sparrowhawk eating greenfinch in garden, watch video

All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes,  and wormeries. Sparrowhawk eating greenfinch video... Greenfinch feeding on bird feeder in garden is ambushed by sparrowhawk, taken to...

Bumblebee nest box designed by Nurturing Nature

Bumblebee nest box designed by Nurturing Nature

All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes,  and wormeries. As a founding member of the wildlife NGO, the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, I became very concerned about the decline of...

Planting tree seeds with The Mersey Forest.

Planting tree seeds with The Mersey Forest.

All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes,  and wormeries. This is some work I did with the Friends of Griffin Wood in 2009, when the group and myself collected oak, beech, blackthorn...

Sparrowhawk hunting mice in garden

Sparrowhawk hunting mice in garden

All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes,  and wormeries. Sparrowhawks-songbird predators? Sparrowhawks are supreme songbird predators. It is the only woodland raptor in Europe which...

The mystery of the dead moles! Can you solve it?

The mystery of the dead moles! Can you solve it?

All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes,  and wormeries. Over a dozen dead moles- be a wildlife detective! Setting the scene! Over the years, along a certain section 62 of the Trans...

Speke Hall, making compost from kitchen garden waste

Speke Hall, making compost from kitchen garden waste

Speke Hall gets into making garden compost! The National Trust's Speke Hall in Liverpool is a magnificent Tudor house, one of my preferred National Trust properties. A lot of work is undertaken keeping it a popular place to visit. But behind the scenes there are many...

The Waste Buster gang of composting worms!

The Waste Buster gang of composting worms!

All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes,  and wormeries. "Hi ,  I'm Walter the Worm and a member of the Waste Buster gang. I used to live in a garden compost heap. I lived here all...

Speke Hall-making compost bins

Speke Hall-making compost bins

All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes,  and wormeries. Speke Hall in 2011 started work on a walled Victorian kitchen garden. Being a compost fanatic, I decided to make some...