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species that take advantage of Flying Ants Day, starlings, swifts and sparrows are in serious decline. According to the RSPB, swifts have declined by a third in recent years, house sparrows by almost 60% since 1979 and starlings by almost 75%. One

A few weeks ago, I suffered what swiftly became my most painful gardening injury to date: I stubbed my toe on a tasteless garden ornament. (It wasn't mine, I was helping out at a friend's garden.) Within seconds I knew this was no ordinary toe

tits, coal tits, house sparrows and robins. Indeed, provision of nest boxes may even bolster declining populations of swifts, house martins, house sparrows and starlings. The key to success is to use untreated wood, as any chemicals can leach

Pippin, and lastly my favourite, late-season 'Spartan', which is absolutely delicious.At some point during this time, Lucy turns up with buckets of 'Bramley'. These are swiftly gathered by colleagues and taken home, mainly to be turned into crumble

’s not theirs. Cuckoos were swiftly dumped in the ‘magpie’ category of birds and not given a further thought.Now I’m grown, I’ve got over the barbaric way cuckoos enter the world and have learned to love them (I'm more tolerant of magpies, too). Each summer I