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into. There was a brief stand-off, then it bolted. The bristling cats padded nervously about for a few minutes, then came indoors doing that nonchalant shrug thing, which means 'Pah, you should have seen the other guy'.When we first moved to south

on the door handle and seemed to peer longingly inside. It always flew off if I opened the door, and never once flew indoors if we left the door ajar. What was going on?I've never really got to the bottom of this. The only thought was that it might have been

-footed bee hovered briefly outside the kitchen.I've just been wandering about the garden in my shirtsleeves, feeling the real warmth of the sun catch me, and it seems that all the wildlife has just been queuing up ready for this sunshine. The trouble is, I

, it was the woodworm beetles indoors that fascinated me most. Technically they weren't in the garden, but they were so impressive that I can't resist going on about them. They were, after all, Britain's largest and most sinister woodworm — the death

the cute or endangered species alone?Autumnwatch presenter Chris Packham recently made a plea to cat owners, asking them to keep their tabbies indoors at night to stop them killing wildlife. It’s estimated that this would halve the number of wild deaths

To Soicherons, Villars-Dompierre, in the Cote d'Or region of France for two weeks and the wildlife here is subtly different to that in East Dulwich. For one thing we are surrounded by large flowery meadows, hedges dripping with Mirabelle plums