I am going to tell you about an audio documentary. I must tell you before you read on, I’m not going to give anything away. If you want to know more, you’ll have to listen to it! This audio documentary is not just about birds. I suppose you could say it’s about people with a...

During March to May, house martins began to arrive from Africa for their six month summer holidays again this year in Old Dairy, Okeford Fitzpaine.   The male bird arrives with a new wife every year, either to the existing mud nest he built the year before or they embark on building a new mud...

The Eaves By Jonathan R. Parsonage ‘Free as a bird to settle where I will…’ – William Wordsworth I Composed. Prepared for flight. A black eye beholds An unfamiliar sky. Sudden as the forming Of clouds over the sun, Bow-wing begins, buoyant, Expanding, floating like the Chink of a windchime, And circling The Eaves. II...