As the last of the leaves fall from mountain ash trees, the splendour of their bright red berries is revealed. For several weeks, the red and yellow leaves have obscured the red of the berries. The ...

On the well-known Kerry mountain of Brandon there may be found occasional rowan trees, their scarlet berries flashing in the thinning autumn sunlight. The mountain ash, as it is also called, is ...

ONCE commonly planted outside houses as a protection against witches, the rowan is one of our most elegant trees and it is particularly conspicuous at this time of year due to its hanging bunches of ...

I've seen enough mountain ash berries this month to know that we are going to have quite a few drunken bohemian waxwings later this winter. Those beautiful, red berries, bountiful this year, happen to ...

I have never understood the draw of birdwatching – birds are boring creatures and keep moving about. Taste nice though. Birders no doubt feel the same about the appeal for mushroom hunters. On a ...

Rowan trees are sporting their red berries at the moment, waiting for winged Scandinavian plunderers to nourish themselves on their autumn journeys south. What admirable trees they are, writes Lesley ...

FOR those traversing one of Scotland's highest and most exposed roads, it has become a beloved landmark: a lone rowan that grows inexplicably atop a craggy boulder on the rain-strewn and wind-lashed ...

IT’S said that when the autumn hedgerows are heavy with haws then there’s a harsh winter ahead. I’ve nothing scientific to support this assertion but this year the yield from the hawthorn appears ...