This month, local nature correspondent Rupert Evershed tells the story of the return of the egrets and suggests a visit to Heron Watch, which can now be joined at Verulamium Lake every weekend from 11am to 3pm until 12 May.
As we head away from Christmas and towards the Spring, Rupert Evershed reminds us of the ever-present robin - always looking over the gardener's shoulder for worms. (From 2016 Nature Notes archive.)
Local nature correspondent Rupert Evershed encourages us to look more closely at what at first appear like lumps of mud in newly ploughed fields - sometimes they have feathers or fur! (From 2018 archive.)