Return of the native oak helps birds to survive climate change (Times Online)

Garden birds are being protected from the effects of climate change by an alien tree, researchers have found.

Scientists want to know why birds warble long after dark (Modesto Bee)

FRESNO -- Why do the birds go on singing -- at night? The common expectation (right up there with the sun rising in the east, leaves dropping in the fall and the cat wanting back in as soon as someone has let it out) is that birds sing in the sunshine.

Is global warming putting garden birds at risk by making them lay their eggs earlier? (Daily Mail)

Rising temperatures are making our best-loved birds lay their eggs earlier, say conservationists. This change could eventually threaten the survival of many garden species such as robins, swallows and blue tits.

Site navigation (Reading Evening Post)

My mission this weekend is to keep the vegetable patch going over the winter. The broad beans – such as they were – are over and I will be cutting the stalks off and composting them while leaving the roots behind to continue to supply nitrogen to the soil.

Weekly shop’s dropping off the menu (icWales)

RISING food prices and a drive to become greener could spell the end for the “weekly shop”, experts warned last night.