First, a quick reminder of our Water Vole Celebration meeting on 3rd November. Details on our Meetup site here. It’s a busy time for...

Join us on Thursday 3rd November to celebrate the return of water voles to Cookham’s waterways. The WildCookham project undertaken over...

August and high summer is insect time – the time for us to get to know more about the amazing array of insect life around Cookham. The...

Joining a botanical walk on Pinkneys Green recently brought home how it’s not just the obvious ‘pretty flower’ pollinators that are...

The seasons of life come to us all, and so it is in our wonderful Cookham countryside. March gave us early foliage on trees such as Ash...

The BBC Radio 4 programme ‘The Moral Maze’ recently posed this question. It’s Genesis, the first book in the Bible, that tells us that...

Spring is with us as, once again, nature shows its power over everything that we humans mess up. And WildCookham is continuing in its...

So now we know. The latest Climate Change report states that we’re very likely to hit 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial temperatures in...

So we’ve had the aperitif and the starter, the initial burst of Spring followed by the excitement of life breaking out across our natural...

I had to go up into the roof of our house the other day. It’s an old building and up there I had a fresh look at the timbers used to...

It’s difficult to avoid the news about biodiversity loss and the destruction of the habitats on which our wildlife depends. We are right...

Among all the bad things that the Corona virus has brought us, it has resulted in people spending more time in our local countryside. The...

There’s no such thing as a free lunch. A truism that we are coming to understand as we humans realise the environmental and climate costs...

(This post for the April edition of 'The Parishioner' was written before the full unfolding of the Covid19 crisis. Information about...

Every Little Helps – to borrow a phrase from one or more of our supermarket chains. It certainly works with our wildlife. And Cookham...

New Year and a new decade – so let’s be optimistic. For lovers of wildlife here in Cookham there is much that may concern us.

With New Year resolutions in the air here are a few ideas for gifts to our natural world.