Tim Corn, a nature warden on little Lifandoy island, is at war. With his girlfriend Jessica he fights to protect rare birds and their precious nest from the ruthless farming of his pesky Uncle Wilfred But Wilfred has a strangely urgent quest of his own In this comic story of nature, island life and conscience, Tim also has to deal with Jessica's scheming young sister Alice and a gallery of colourful island characters. Later he also faces criminal egg-collectors and an invasion of rare bird 'twitchers'. Uncle Wilfred is known throughout the island as a helpful but alarming eccentric. To...

The second story of Tim and Jessica starts with a mysterious death. The location of a very rare flower, a beautiful Ladys Slipper Orchid, lies in a coded message. But what dark event has silenced its sender? At the same time a different ORCHID, an experimental rocket, crashes on the island. In urgent and comic hunts for both "orchids", Tim and Jessica join with dangerously helpful Uncle Wilfred, Jessicas scheming young sisters Alice and Rosalind and other rich characters. Bigger problems are a clash with ruthless Graham Fytts and the arrival of murky international politics on quiet Lifandoy....