Week 15 If I wish to find anyone who is working or visiting my land, and there are plenty of nooks and hiding places, I go to one spot -...

Week 14 I am hopeless at many things in life, but a huge failure has been my inability to interpret birdsong. I can recognise most birds,...

Week 13 They call it biostimulation, which is what I am trying to achieve with my land. There is a subtle difference between...

Week 12 After seemingly taking forever, the daffodils are now springing to life, although there are two clumps of tiny daffodils that are...

Week 11 I know that blackbirds[i] are messy creatures and never tidy up after themselves. However, right now my land is looking more than...

Week 10 “It’s ground elder,” he said. “Aegopodium podagraria[i]. It’s a weed and needs to go. It grows by rhizomes, too.” There were two...

Week 9 I am glad I am not a pheasant[i], as the males are hugely territorial. The pheasant breeding season is just around the corner and...

Week 8 Tragedy! My song thrush[i] is still missing, for reasons I cannot work out. It may be because a neighbour is hard at work felling...

Week 7 I have an idea - a school for messy blackbirds[i]. I am sure it would be oversubscribed, as if there was an award for scruffiness...

Week 6 At last the year has truly begun as there are snowdrops[i] everywhere. The wild snowdrop is something of a rarity these days,...

Week 5 I despair. What is it that goes through someone’s mind when they fell a tree? I understand a tree may be diseased, but there is a...

Week 4 I am unsure how to react to an owl - whether to be fascinated, excited, or even frightened. Yet I have one somewhere in the trees...

Week 3 I am very excited, as the first shoots of several plants are beginning to appear. These days I am quite good at recognising...

Week 2 If anyone asks how much it has rained this week, all I can answer is, “A lot.” It has bucketed, deluged, poured in a way I had not...

Week 1 So it starts. New Year's Day, a new beginning, and somehow to look at Nature seems appropriate. If there is anything that shows...