A WildCookham colleague just pointed me to a poem about glow worms* by the great 17th century English poet Andrew Marvell, along with...

August should be a month in which we can enjoy the best weather that Summer has to offer, but this year it has come with a menacing...

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...

Monday 25th July was the dullest, coolest, dampest day for ages when 11 of us gathered at Odney Club who had once again permitted us to...

What a wonderful time of year it is for bumblebee-spotters. There are fewer of the big queens on the wing but many more workers,...

12 members congregated in the Maidenhead Thicket CP for a 10.30am start. It was good to see so many well known faces. The weather was a...

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

We are now in the middle of summer and the temperatures have already reached comfortable heights although it is not so pleasant if you...

Spring heralds the arrival of the charismatic house martin, returning from its wintering grounds in Africa, to its northern breeding...

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...

From March onwards we have been seeing queens of the Common carder bumblebee, Bombus pascuorum. Like the rest of her family, she has a...

Some reference books suggest that bumblebees do not emerge from hibernation until outside temperatures reach 10C. They then shiver to...

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...

A report from Odney Club members and Wild Cookham on the status of habitat ecosystems in relation to naturalised and native species observed

If all the bumblebees die, what then? Other bees like solitary ones and honeybees are pollinators, but if they died too, we would be...

Nest boxes are handmade enclosures made for birds to nest in. Different sizes, with different shapes, entrance holes and features can host..

2022 - a new year and a new set of chances to make our world better for us and for the nature around us. So what are your Resolutions?...

Knowing what we have is the starting point. We're listing here just some of the ways you can help, from getting out to survey local...

We are quickly approaching the next national Big Garden Birdwatch, organised by the RSPB, and registration is already open. Share your...