Recently Michael Gove attended an event in Gloucestershire to release beavers back into the wild as part of a project to rewild Britain. A male and a female Eurasian beaver, a species hunted to extinction

Bird photography: a heron in the setting sun

First acorns of the year!

A few photos from a recent trip to Pensthorpe in Norfolk. It was a beautiful day though windy with the storms that finally broke the heatwave. So many flowers in bloom in the Millennium Garden.

Like practically everyone, I've been trying to reduce my plastic usage. Although I've always recycled since I was responsible for my own waste disposal, there's a lot of stuff I never considered, and whilst

Have some joy this friday

The bees are loving the sweet peas! 🐝 🌸

Bearded tits have always been a difficult bird for me to photograph – they’re just so quick and I rarely get to see them. There is an aviary at Pensthorpe in Norfolk that houses some bearded tits, which

So my cat sadly destroyed a little copper plant pot I had and also damaged the maidenhair fern it housed. My calathea has also been suffering - it's lost all stability, so it needs some R & R time

Hello! I've had a few months off from Steeming due to holidays and overtime. But I'm back with a post about bluebells! Every May comes the annual trip to the woods at the Blickling estate in Norfolk to

Cat enjoying the spring weather

This mallard let me get quite close!

It's just past Easter and it's still not warm. In fact, we've had more snow in February-March than I can remember for 5 years. But I'm still spotting some of the early signs of spring so clearly the birds

So the results of the Big Garden Birdwatch have been released and I'm always interested to compare how my own garden fares against the rest of the country. I posted about this in January when the event

Some close ups of ivy flowers - the structure is quite fascinating.

The first blossoms of spring

Welcome to the second in my wildlife focus blog series (did you catch the first on the mole?) and in this one I'm sharing some facts about the great spotted woodpecker. You can tell them apart from their

Here's a recipe for some real hearty food: a vegan cottage pie. 900g white potatoes 250g vegan mince (i used Ocado's range) 3 large carrots 1 onion 2 garlic cloves 1 tin of chopped toms 50ml veg stock

Vegetables in cakes. Cakes made of vegetables. Somehow it works. This blog post is an easy recipe to make sweet potato chocolate brownies. It took about an hour to make, including prep time, and they have

Fluffy little long tailed tit