By Andy Overall Andy is the well respected mycologist behind “Fungi to be With” which is dedicated to connecting the Greater London public to the natural environment through the magical world of fungi. During the autumn of 2018 I was part of an ongoing...
Tony Wileman My desire for identifying wildlife started at a very young age, sometime between five and seven, when it was usual for me to be found crawling under school huts. A lot of my childhood was spent crawling around looking at invertebrates in my local park in...
Richard Bullock, WWT Biodiversity Officer The importance of wildlife recording first dawned on me in my late teens. During the early 1980s, I volunteered, at a Shropshire site called Stoneyhill, to look for three species of clubmoss ferns. Remarkably, they included...
The Living Wandle Landscape Partnership Scheme has been monitoring Canada goose populations in the Wandle Valley to gain a greater understanding of their numbers and possible effects. With help from volunteers, the partnership have been conducting annual goose counts....
David Darrell-Lambert, Bird Brain UK, & GiGL treasurer Most people don’t look to the sky over London for migrating birds. I never used to. Until, way back in the early 1990s, I was waiting at a bus stop on Tottenham High Road. I looked up and noticed a smoky, long...
