I thought I'd illustrate this post with a nice picture of a Wicks Green robin, but this bird does not look happy about having its picture...

Did you know that we have a newt reserve in Bracknell? Bracknell Forest Council maintains a set of former clay pits in Whitegrove. This...

As the nights are drawing in and Halloween is approaching it feels fitting to write about owls. We are fortunate in Binfield to have...

Saturday 21st September is World Clean-up Day. More information on this global event can be found here – https://www.worldcleanupday.org...

July and August are usually quiet months in nature conservation but there seems to be a lot going on around Binfield: - Thanks to...

Butterflies, and particularly painted ladies, have been in the news this week. Here are some of the simple activities that we can all...

Now summer is here, I want you to get out and enjoy the flowers. There are summer flowers a-plenty in and around our parish, and the...

Despite the threat of showers, we had a record turn-out for our latest biodiversity survey at the Blue Mountain park on Saturday 15th...

This year's incredibly successful Binfield 10K event saw a small but hopefully significant change. All of the water stations handed out...

Earlier this week this gorgeous creature visited our garden. This is a male stag beetle and he has only a couple of months to find a...

As I write this I am eagerly awaiting the return of one of my favourite summer visitors, and another Bracknell Forest Council...

Thanks to everyone who joined us at Wicks Green on Easter Saturday. We discovered that there was a greater variety of plants in the park...

This post shares some, hopefully interesting, facts about the nature in our village. Binfield has at least 170 veteran trees. These are...

This amazing bird is a nightjar, whose folk-names include fern-owl, goat-sucker and dew-fall hawk. This scarce summer migrant hunts for...

On Saturday I bumped into the lovely people from Hedge and Woodland Conservationists (HAWC) who were laying a hedgerow at Larks Hill. If...

This is the second of a series of articles on the species mentioned in that plan that make Binfield their home. This species is...

In my last post, I wrote about the Bracknell Forest Biodiversity Action Plan. This is the first of a series of posts on the species...

Most Binfield residents know how lucky they are to live in Binfield and to enjoy its open green spaces and the nature that make the...

On Sunday 1st July, Jane and I joined a walk led by Mike Taylor from Natural England exploring some of the green-spaces that form part of...

Thanks to everyone who joined the BEG team for a walk on Saturday 16th June and everyone who visited our table in Silver Jubilee Field....