Author: Rachael Murray

Unless you have been living under a rock, you won’t have failed to have noticed the electronic phenomenon that is Pokémon GO. The premise, in case you have been cave dwelling, is that you move about your local neighbourhood eyes firmly fixed on your mobile phone, searching for virtual monsters going by names like Spearow, Beedrill and Sandshrew. The make believe beasts that feel…

It’s pretty hard to see things in the dark, and that’s most probably why some of our incredible night time wildlife goes unnoticed as it hops, snuffles and flaps around our neighbourhoods.

I love to snuggle up cosily of an evening. As dusk empties our skies of colour, blue fading slowly to black, I can invariably be found closing curtains, shutting blinds and allowing the cheerful glow of lamps and…