It’s that time of year again when the flapping sound of blackbirds fluttering and chuckling through the rowan tree draws me to its dense clusters of red berries. Weighed down with ripeness, they hang, ...

I've seen enough mountain ash berries this month to know that we are going to have quite a few drunken bohemian waxwings later this winter. Those beautiful, red berries, bountiful this year, happen to ...

AS the old Scots song says, 'Oh rowan tree, oh rowan tree, thou'lt aye be dear to me". Now Scotland's Tree of the Year, a rowan dubbed "The Survivor", has been chosen to represent Great Britain for ...