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Is it to introduce nitrogen from the roots as a natural fertiliser? Just seem to remember something from crop rotation theory.

Well following a thoroughly? wet year last year and a very cold long winter, my two hives were sadly neglegted towards the back end of last year, plenty of food in there but I just couldn't find a dry day or two to do the necessary. So they stayed complete with full supers and an insulation...

I can't recall having heard or seen a Yellowhammer around here over the twenty years I've been here, but perhaps because of the crops that were left in the fields last year I thought there may be a chance of them being seen. The last one that I heard or saw was in in Pembrokeshire around St...

It's a whole ring. no markings on it. I've done a bit of searching tonight and come up with not a lot other than captive birds generally have a plain ring just for identification purposes. I'd be amazed if it was a canary! Perhaps it's a cross breed. I have to admit to being amazed at how...

I can't see any numbers on the ring, so perhaps it's a male/female or year identifier from a particular colony.

Up in the frozen wastes of North Preston!

Just found this on the side of the main road near me. It's quite small and very yellow and of course dead! It's quite obviously a finch of some sort but it is so yellow. Strange that it has plain red ring on its leg. Anybody know what it is?

Thanks for your comments. That was the general idea behind the circular. The two hogs that I have picked up over the last couple of weeks were probably just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. There must be quite a few more that havn't been found around here. I'll find out where it's coming from.

Hhmmm! This last one didn't survive! It was in the Hedgehog rescue http://hedgehogcare.co.uk/ It didn't last so long, even with antibiotics and a nebuliser. Before it died it was bleeding profusely and aborted three young! It was considered to be Rat poison or similar! I have written a...

Hhmm! I had a read about that this evening Pete. It seems that the metalhydrwhatever it is is only toxic to a hedghog after they have eaten around two hundred of the things. If the Internet is to be believed! To be quite honest, there are not a lot of gardens around us!

In the last two/three weeks I have picked up a couple of Hedgehogs that were suffering. The first one had a lot of ticks and lumps on its nose (maybe ticks) and was struggling to breathe. Now I know that they can suffer from respiratory problems but I put the first one down just to ill health or...

So there I was at work early Sunday morning. I run Markets and Antique Fairs etc. I started at 5am and by 6.30 someone was shouting at me, Shaun, Have you got an emergency number for the RSPB? Of course I didn't, so I asked. What's happened now? There's an Owl! So I drop everything and run over...

There is a black and white Crow or perhaps a Raven in a field/trees just near me. It appears that it can't fly at the moment! Been feeding it up a bit!

I spend quite a bit of time on another forum following my other passion which is Hotrods. A forum member took these pictures at a recent Car/Bike Show and had posted them up as they were interesting. Thought the members here may also be interested.

Found these on an American forum that I frequent (The HAMB) Thought they were interesting James Sprout was the name attached to them Judging by the car in the pics I would guess between 1912 and 1920ish

The OP did say he was using his drill on the lowest setting! For all we know it may be an old Gold coloured Black and Decker mains drill! The Woolworths set that he has, certainly wasn't bought yesterday. If we want to be pedantic.

And, it does help if your drill/driver has a progressive start on the switch. What I mean by that is it will run very slowly when you start to press the trigger and will speed up the harder you press the thing. Early style battery drills just had a switch style trigger which went at full pelt on...

Snowdrops fully out here, Long Catkins on the side of the motorway and I did see a couple of flowers on a Forsythia hedge last week! Blowing a hooly now and forecast cold this weekend.

Don't you be trying to steal my crown! I am still the official Bathtub racing champion (GB) since approximately 1994! I will try and find a picture and post it up. There is actually an annual competition in the US of A (maybe Canada). I'll find a link! The Bathtubs were built with the tub in...