This month I’ve been...

1 Somewhere I haven’t for 30+ years – Brimham Rocks in Nidderdale. Even better than I remember. 2 Stopping roughly 28 times a mile to take a photo of a tree. 3 Learning what this is: a ‘robin’s pin cushion’ – a harmless growth on a wild rose caused by a tiny gall wasp burying its eggs in one of the plant’s buds. It makes the plant grow a woody, mossy chamber in which the resulting grubs will safely overwinter.