Daniel Butler

Should just sell his Oasis ticket - would cover ten year's lost winter benefits.

Foraging is exploding in popularity, but the law covering this is poorly-understood - especially by those in charge of managing the countryside. Here is the first of four blogs covering this opaque area of UK law. fungiforays.co.uk/blog/mushr…

Good Lord! That is spectacularly early.

It is if you know your hawks. This looks like an immature male. They get darker in adult plumage.

It's a Harris Hawk - a non-native species that is Britain's most popular falconry bird. They are used extensively in London to deter pigeons.

Well, at least we can now raise a pint of wine to that.

Actually, technically today is the solstice - owing to the leap year thing, once every four or five years the 22nd is the shortest day.

No. It's not a chanterelle.

Just to prove I was in the woods for my interview with @BBCRadio2 about this year's bumper crop of mushrooms - here are the chanterelles I picked while I was chatting!

Quote for the week from my alter-ego Ed Reardon: 'Three may be company, but four means a bottle of merlot goes almost nowhere.'

If anyone is interested in a cheap holiday at Glebe House, Pembrokeshire, the last full week in June is now getting a 25% late-booking discount. This cuts it from £800 to £600. It sleeps up to 10 and takes up to six dogs. Late June is also... glebeholidays.co.uk/

Just had my favourite little weasel running virtually over my feet outside the backdoor. She was hunting voles under the railway sleepers. I haven't wanted to bother the barn owls to see if they have more than seven eggs - but Sky is definitely fixed on three.

Just over a year ago we had the mortifying experience of Holly, our Jack Russell/Patterdale terrier cross killing a pregnant ewe, thus it was with some trepidation that I realised Broch was spending a lot of... facebook.com/daniel.butler.7…