Naturelog: Alnmouth

Alnmouth is a wonderful coastal village in Northumberland. It is situated on a spit of land bounded on one…

Warkworth Castle: Lion Tower

Built around 1480 as part of the reordering of the Great Hall, the façade of the Tower facing the courtyard…

A number of Wildfowl and Wetlands centres keep Asian Short-Clawed Otters as they are easy to keep in enclosures as…

Our lunch break on the second day of our journey north was at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust reserve…

On our journey north to Northumbria Sue and I stopped off at the birdwatching centre at Eggleton, which is on…

Tower Green is an open space to the west of the White Tower. It is bordered on the south and…

St Benet is a small church which stands in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral. Since 1879 it has been…

This colourful and attractive duck species was introduced into private collections in the UK from China, but escapees have formed…

Bunhill fields is an open space and former burial ground just north of the city of London, in the…

The size of a small goose, the Shellduck is the largest of the UK duck species. It is commonly found…