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Mid-summer is one of my favourite times of year. But it's not the hot weather that I enjoy (it's been much too sticky lately - yuck). The warmth brings with it a bounty of amazing insects to watch and admire. This is the time to go and look for dragonflies and their smaller relatives, damselflies...

Like so many other people, my interest in birds stems from watching them in my village garden when I was a kid. I spent hours and hours glued to the window, seeing what was coming and going. I hung feeders on the washing line, much to my mum's annoyance. Blue tits , blackbirds , robins , house...

I'll admit it - I've become a terrible bore. In the three weeks since the big hole in my garden was filled with water, I've been unable to stop talking about it. I'm besotted by my new pond and its contents. Creating it wasn't easy. It took two days of hard labour by me and my mother...

Like three tiny fighter planes, they cruised menacingly past, cagily eyeing each other from afar. Suddenly, they came together in a blur of wings and engaged in a furious catfight, ending with one tumbling unceremoniously into the water. This is no tale of Battle of Britain gallantry in the skies above...