Wasn't expecting to come across a whole colony of Oak Egger caterpillars in the service station car park. #findingthewild

Wonderful morning studying snowdrops & hellebores @CUBotanicGarden & then found this beauty lurking at the snicket edge on the way home. #botanicalserendipity #findingthewild

So chuffed to have the opportunity to write about the place of gardens in the wider & wilder landscape in December's @The_RHS The Garden magazine. Thanks @SeeWhyGardens - writing about an issue that means so much to me has made my year! #findingthewild #wildlifegardening

Hour off from board games, pie baking and assorted family activities to spend dusk at the foot of the black poplar listening to the bubbling Ashbrook and other almost imperceptible crepuscular sounds as the field margins fade to night. #findingthewild #duskinthemargins

Once you have nailed your colours to the trunk of a Scot's pine as a ten-year-old, you never entirely belong to the earth again. This morning I caught the buffet and sway as I hunkered in spirit-sympathy with four little egrets on their willowprow. #findingthewild

Each run is a new symphony - this afternoon was buzzards' cries underscored with skylarks, goldfinches and car alarms, with a little egret flyby. Who says edgelands are dull? #findingthewild #birding #naturesmusic

On this morning's run I danced with brimstones, sang with skylarks and found a bank of wild celandine. I could get used to this running lark... #findingthewild

Just spotted remnant crocus flowering under the beech hedge margins in a new build overlaid on an old, old garden. Wrong plant, wrong place, wrong season: a bewitching symbol of nature's pragmatism and resilience. #gardening #history #findingthewild #bythewayside

Through the railway railings as I wait for my train - buddleja, vetches and purple toadflax... #findingthewild #itsallaroundus #PeoplesWalkforWildlife

Red admiral, red kite, evening primrose, purple loosestrife, grey heron, hemp agrimony, cormorant, ragwort - five minute train window litany #findingthewild