The Moon is currently showing a 'waxing crescent' phase: as it travels around the Earth the angle between the Moon and the Sun varie...

The beautifully-marked white male Buzzard spent some time this afternoon looping and soaring over the garden. At one point it was joined by ...

Today, as Linda and I were returning home from carrying out 'hedgehog duties' at the Church, she noticed a small brown / buff bird r...

Well, no luck with the comet last night... The main issue is that it doesn't get dark enough to see a 7th magnitude object until midnigh...

Yet another possible 'Great Comet' seems to have fizzled out, but nevertheless Comet Swan should be visible with binoculars (or b...

Last night an incredibly thin crescent Moon was just to the south of Mercury and Venus: a beautiful and quite unusual sight in the twilight ...

For the past three years there has been at least one breeding pair of Yellow Wagtails near Hemblington Church: I'm happy to say they...

Linda and I visited the churchyard this morning to change the water in the 'Hedgehog area' and conduct a brief survey of the wild fl...

Last night at around 9.30 the clouds cleared from the west just in time to witness a very close conjunction of Mercury and Venus. These are ...

As promised earlier: some other bird delights from this morning's dawn raid on Thorpe Marsh - what a terrific place it is! The Yellow Fl...