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MAY 2026
If you watch just one thing as spring shifts into summer, let it be Martin Dohrn’s mind-blowing My Garden of a Thousand Bees. Breathtaking, heart-stopping and unforgettable.
APRIL 2026
Some mornings carry you high on their wings. Today the garden was host to a flock of siskins, three blackcaps and six redpolls. Here’s one very swish redpoll – super soft image through glass but you get the idea (hopefully)…
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And a terrific article by Steve Brusatte from the Scientific American exploring how modern birds’ ancestors survived the great dinosaur extinction event - How birds survived the dinosaurs’ doomsday. Illustration by Julius Csotonyi
MARCH 2026
A month of pink sunrises, geese migration and returning hedgehogs. Consultancy projects are still filling many days but more writing, thinking and filming time is opening up. A self-set primrose to remind us that the sun is returning…
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Thoroughly enjoyed taking time out to read something very special – Lucy Lapwing (AKA Lucy Hodson’s) first book. In Love Is a Toad, Lucy explores meadows, bogs and hedgerows in conversation with fellow nature nerds. They give voice to the complex experience of caring for the natural world in the UK today. Lucy and I share a passion for RSPB Coombes Valley where both of us worked in past lives.
FEBRUARY 2026
Imbolc arrives! And our St Brigid’s cross made it across the water in time for the festival. 1st February marks the start of spring in Ireland and the ancient Celtic festival of Imbolc. St Brigid is associated with farming, creativity, and protection—the day is marked by weaving rushes into traditional crosses.
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The New Year has been super busy with a mountain of final fact-checking. Lots of screen time and slightly dry eyes. We seem to have been waiting for weeks for the first of the daffodils to open. And on the last day of the month, it did… The scent always reminds me of my grandmother’s cottage which she would fill with as many signs of spring as possible.
JANUARY 2026
Publication day is here! A big, bold exploration of the world of animals from aardvarks to zooplankton. With nature nerd Dr. Michael Leach and the brilliant Dr. Felicity Forster.
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Wishing everyone a joyful ‘Quiet Moon’.