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Mark Ward

I have always thought am one of the luckiest Editor-in-Chiefs around thanks to you, our brilliant Nature's Home readers and RSPB members.

There are lots of reasons for this: the fact you care about your magazine, you give us so many great things to put in Nature's Home and share with others, from your sightings, reports from reserve visits, wildlife gardening tips and the literally thousands of incredible photos you send to us every year. Taking time to look at these - and I do see every one - is a highlight of my job and they quite often bring a smile to face at trickier times when the going is getting tough on deadlines, or things aren't quite going to plan! A big thank you for sharing them.


Nature's Home's new-look cover allows us to feature even more wildlife each time and our cover star neatly fits with our photo of the week

Regular readers of Nature's Home will know that we feature two pages of your photos every issue and the Spring 2018 issue has a slightly redesigned, and I think improved, look so we can feature the pictures at a larger size. Let us know what you think.

Photo of the week
Because we get so many wonderful shots, far too many to feature in the magazine - please don't feel we don't like your shot of feel it isn't good if it doesn't appear - we can only publish around 36 every year out of the thousands we receive. However, our new "Photo of the week" slot here on the Nature's Home blog allows us to share more with you and we hope share more stories behind the photo as well. Please keep sending them in to rspb.org.uk/natureshome  

 
Nature's Home photo of the week by Tony Miller who says "I took this photo of the robin protecting the feeder from the blue tits."

This is a great pose to capture - not one I see very often, or captured in such wonderful detail .It really shows the determination and aggression that are a key part of this familiar bird's behaviour. Watch your robins over Christmas and don't forget to get ready for Big Garden Birdwatch on 27-29 January where you won't be surprised to find even more robins in this year's visuals!