Interested in discovering the nature around you? .

For many of us, lockdown has been a time of digital discovery, and volunteers on the Artist Research Team have been online too investigating the personalities behind works in Birmingham’s collection.

I sat by the pond today and watched as three coot juveniles were feeding.

It has been an interest of mine for many years to record our local wildlife and having lived round Birmingham for most of my life I have found some of the best places to do it.

"Orange is in Season" is one of the projects run on the Don’t Settle programme.

Are you looking for help to identify your discoveries in the Big Brum BioBlitz? .

For the last ten weeks, we’ve been asking people living or working in Birmingham to share their experiences of Life on Lockdown with us, through photos, videos, artworks, poems or writing.

Like many, my earliest memory of visiting Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, was as a school child.

Love it or loath it, It is impossible to ignore the fascinating spectacle of ants teeming out onto our urban pavements and garden’s and taking to the sky’s.

It’s funny how something you created at the start of your career, something you thought was long forgotten suddenly finds a new lease of life! That’s what’s happened to my first documentary, African Oasis, made in 1982.