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17 days late to be precise! The first cuckoo was heard at Titchwell on 20 April but there was no sign of cuckooflower, a springtime plant named because it’s flowering time traditionally coincides with the arrival of the first cuckoo and the beginning of spring. It has taken another 17 days before...

I feel really sorry for all the folk I've heard recently saying "Not much about, is there?" So there are no rarities at the moment but I've had great fun watching the thousands of 'common' birds we have here. Always worth watching are the knots wheeling over the fresh marsh...

During the age of the dinosaurs an ancient family of plants called horsetails covered the earth growing as large as Oak trees in vast forests. They were an important food source for dinosaurs that would browse the fast growing and resilient plants. Today relatives of the plants grow to a much smaller...

When we were creating the new west bank last summer, the final job was toput down a layer of topsoil to allow the vegetation to regenerate. As part of the process we lightly seeded the banks with a grass mix but we have been pleasantly surprised by the other species that have established themselves....

Despite already reaching his target of 800 species, Ray is continuing to find new flora and fauna to add to his amazing list of finds... Spending a morning with Gillian Beckett, co-author of The Flora of Norfolk , and her husband Ken was a real treat for me. They very soon sorted out the ferns that...

My name may be Coleman but it is not the mustard variety from Norwich. I’m probably the Irish variety from Sligo. Having driven up the high street of Sligo town passing Coleman’s Laundrette, Coleman’s Paper Shop, Coleman’s Sweet Shop and Coleman’s Supermarket I am pretty...