Getting excited about grass
This weekend is going to be all about grasses, or graminoids, a divergence from my mainly animal interests, but my curiosity was piqued a few months ago at the Field Studies Council’s centre at Flatford Mill…
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Learning about otters, water voles and other riverside mammals
“I promise you, they are not remote controlled,” said our ecstatic tutor, Darren Tansley, as we spent a couple of hours with water voles – one of Britain’s rarest creatures – scampering along the river…