Roofs & Rambles

It was just a garden bank besides the road. There was no hedge, just a tumbling sandy soil bank. And the Solitary bees had amassed to nest and breed.

Last July the Burnett moths were the stars of my Butterfly Day at John Little’s garden in Essex.

The darters and damselflies were hawking over the wildflower meadows of John Little’s Garden in Essex. It was the morning after our annual green roof training event at John’s. I stroll through the meadows disturbed numerous butterfly and moth species as well.

‘If you cross the bridge you are in Hungary’ was all the book had said. There was no reference to the memorial or that  for many in 1956 it was a bridge to freedom. The book in question was no travel guide of the normal kind but ‘Where to watch birds: World Cities’.

Hopefully the Orchids on the Royal St. George’s at Sandwich have now cast their seed and are safe from the wood, the iron and the putter. And the feet of the spectators at the British Open Golf this weekend. For Sandwich Bay is a wildflower paradise.

The Steller’s Jay is another entertaining members of the Crow/Corvid family found in North America. In Colorado I was a bit disappointed to only see a few. My travels along the West Coast of the continent have always been graced with many of these birds, foraging around car parks or in large gardens. And boy [...]