This Norway maple was pollarded in midsummer - the worst of times for this severe pruning. Amazingly, it has grown back this ballgown of a dress. Some of the other trees though are struggling, with just a quiff of panic leaves sprouting from their shorn crowns.

Tseeeep! Redwings are back overhead. Chiffchaff singing in the garden, the seasons' crossing point

Flurries of fieldfares chacking overhead! Welcome you birds of the far north!

A huge loss to the world theguardian.com/environment/20…

Kronk! First thing, seven ravens flew over my town garden, off to somewhere craggier and a bit wilder.

The Conservatives have changed PM multiple times without calling a General Election on the basis that in the UK we "elect the party, not the individual". Ok, fair enough. Sort of. But, voters elected the party on the basis of their 2019 Manifesto which promised "the most

Teasel seeds germinating within the teasel head, the result of a warm, wet autumn?

Song thrush singing, Gaer Fawr.

Wonderfully loud new year's greeting from a Cetti's warbler at Whixall.

Every morning I'm out in my garden at 7ish & I've been hearing a little more birdsong ever day. This morning I heard the wonderful sound of a whole chorus of blackbirds for the first time this year.

Stinking hellebore smelling sweet to this enormous queen bumblebee in the Oswestry hills today. #wildflowerhour

The Lough Neagh fly is the key insect prey for many of Northern Ireland's swifts and house martins - now look what's happened. theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/a…

Still two months before swifts return to the UK but in Egypt, where spring comes early, they're back already. Video taken in Tahir Square by my son.

I was in my local post office today when a pigeon flew in. A big guy in a hi-viz jacket very gently cornered it, picked it up and took it back outside. So nice to see this done so calmly. "I didn't want it to get hurt," he said.

Brimstone flying in a sheltered quarry in the Oswestry hills today.

Two swifts over my garden! Just yesterday Countryile star Hayley Garrod installed six integral nest boxes in my loft and the call system is now on!

Much looking forward to this.

'These birds, they are still coming. And it gives us hope'. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

A day for thinking about Swifts, reading about Swifts and taking photos of Swifts - happy #WorldSwiftDay folks. #WSD2024 Swift Awareness Week Thanks Sarah Gibson for a lovely read with my coffee. ❤️📚🐦 #mybirdinglife #birdsuniteourworld #Swifts #30dayswild Photos:- Climate Action North

What an honour to have our wedding celebration written up so beautifully by Guardian Country Diarist Paul Evans theguardian.com/environment/ar…