Wired for SoundWild West Yorkshire nature diary, Thursday 8th July 1999
the Greenfinch - a nasal 'jeeez' 
Gipsywort, at the water's edge, now has knots of small white flowers in its leaf joints. It has square stalks and looks something like a yellowish-green nettle.
Richard Bell, 
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EVENING by the canal; a Greenfinch and Yellowhammer are perched within six feet of each other on a wire. It's not what you could call close harmony, but they seem to be spurring each other on. They seem to be enjoying it.
On several occasions they both manage to end their songs together;
Some of the trumpet flowers of Field Bindweed, by the lane, are candy-coloured, others are white. It is an attractive wild flower but very difficult to get rid of as a weed. Where it's become established on the pavement by our house it has the power to lift the tarmac.