Nature Notes columnist Jono Forgham covers your fortnightly look at nature around Bishop’s Stortford Following a nine-day stay in St Mark’s, the National Bowel Hospital, in north-west London, five days later my wife, Wendy, appeared most eager to take me for a drive and leave me somewhere – so I could have a brief walk for my article, she stressed. Me being stuck indoors for six days is virtually unheard of and I think Wendy’s huge quantity of patience was beginning to wear thin! Consequently, I was abandoned in the car park of Takeley’s Holy Trinity Church, ready for a wander around the airpo…