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1. Not everything is black and white
Tameside Advertiser, Wednesday 3 December 2008AS I WRITE, there is a cheeky black and white minstrel within three feet of my computer.
2. Feathered friends take it to the road
Tameside Advertiser, Wednesday 26 November 2008NOW look what I started! I only asked if readers could think of cars with the same name as birds.
3. Making a home for our natural pals
Tameside Advertiser, Wednesday 19 November 2008I WAS asked recently to officially open a fantastic wildlife area and pond at Charlesworth Primary School, near Glossop.
4. Don't be bird-brained, join the RSPB
Tameside Advertiser, Wednesday 12 November 2008I AM a little concerned about some of my wife's friends. Firstly, one Nicola Grundy, of Glossop, teacher par-excellence and member of the Costa quiz team, has proved to be a doubting Thomas; secondly, two others belonging to the same team, who shall remain nameless for the sake of their modesty, have demonstrated with brass-knobs on that they should keep copies of this column for future reference.
5. Is there a spike in hedgehog stats?
Tameside Advertiser, Wednesday 5 November 2008A READER commented last week: "I’ve never seen so many hedgehogs Sean." And then by coincidence, my sister called from North Yorkshire and explained that she had found an adult and her five young settling down for hibernation snuggled under a ball of leaves in her garden.
6. Welcome aboard the Mystery Machine
Tameside Advertiser, Thursday 30 October 2008IT'S been an eventful few months: firstly, we have sold Bleak House, my eyrie in the hills for nearly 30 years and the natural habitat of my three children. Wild days and wild times, some tears but mostly laughs and plenty of wildlife, but that said it’s time to look foward.
7. Rare wildlife - a UK spotter's guide
Tameside Advertiser, Thursday 23 October 2008IT HAS been said that I can link virtually any subject or incident to wildlife, but this week it was a piece of cake to link the Shetland tours of Brydon Thomason to the recent rare bird sighting of reader Ruth Williamson in the fields above Mossley.
8. Guinness and gulls - a perfect combination
Tameside Advertiser, Thursday 16 October 2008ALEXANDER Nimmo was a famous 19th century engineer who built piers and quays across the west of Ireland, one (seen here) in possibly the most picturesque village in Ireland: Roundstone, Connemara.
9. Crowned King of Cong for a day
Tameside Advertiser, Thursday 9 October 2008FOR one day, and one day only, I was the King of Cong and not only that I drank in the same pub as the Duke. And then set off from Ashford Castle, once owned by the Guinness family, in the oar trails of St Patrick himself to the Island of Inchagoill - or was it Innisfree?
10. Outfoxed by our furry urban friends
Tameside Advertiser, Thursday 2 October 2008WHEN you’re tucked up in bed and things go bump in the night, forget the ghosts and ghouls, don’t worry about burglars and intruders, it’s only a wild fox drinking from the cat’s saucer.