Your garden will take flight after adding one of these unique wooden birdhouses to draw feathered friends to your yard. You can even add your own flair to some.

Decaying wood provides homes for countless organisms including insects, worms, fungi and birds. As it rots it slowly enriches the soil adding loads of carbon-rich organic matter.

Many years ago, in the blackness of nighttime in the country, I saw an apparition. It was a large, white-winged specter hovering by the hedgerow some 6 feet in the air.

A garden in west Dorset has become home to an owl and its offspring. Ken Pett and his wife Sheila from Burton Bradstock have been following the birds' progress - with their video camera. Have a ...