This content contains affiliate links to Bookshop.org. When you buy through these links, I may earn an affiliate commission. To many people, moths are the drab, brown, poor relations of colourful, attention-grabbing butterflies. There is also a perception that moths only fly at night, while butterflies are out during the day and so much easier …
This content contains affiliate links to Bookshop.org. When you buy through these links, I may earn an affiliate commission. I’ve written in the past about the surprising amount of urban wildlife in our towns and cities. But immersed in the hustle and bustle of urban life, it’s sometimes easy to forget that we are also …
My bird of the month for May, the whimbrel, is appropriately enough sometimes called the ‘May Bird’. This is because May is the month most of us encounter this migratory wader as it stops off at coastal sites on the way to its breeding grounds further north. Similar to curlews, but with a few tell-tale …