Winter can be a difficult time of year. As the memories of Halloween pumpkins and the joy of bonfire night fade into the distant past, winter seems to stretches in front of us with its long nights…

A large grey bird flies over my neighbour’s house. “It’s just a pigeon” I think to myself and turn away before something clicks, and I snap my head back. It’s not a pigeon, but a pigeon killer. A…

“Robin”, “blue tit”, “crow” – those are the easy ones, but what happens when the children in our lives point at a brown-coloured duck and ask us, “what’s that one?”.