a dog's life in the Tamar valley, Cornwall, PL17

On Penny's Piece this morning

another real local rarity is cornish bladderseed, seen here growing in profusion in the meadows.

It has been predicted recently that this will be a good year for peacock butterflies. They are attracted to hemp agrimony, a common wild...

Spot, some pheasant's eyes and some dog violets

The swallows are back. I saw two last Friday (11/4). Usually these early birds fly on, but this year they are already investigating the ne...

It must be so much fun driving your 4x4 illegally into these woods and meadows and driving at speed across a rare and fragile landsc...

Today's guest dog Ron (Warnham R, see link ), retired racer, doing spirit of running with his friends.

  images from our walk in Greenscombe woods today

a lovely sunny luminous morning in Luckett woods

Yesterday was a dreary wet day so I read the morning newspaper more thoroughly than usual. In it, Simon Barnes, sports writer and naturalist...

It is amazing that this tattered male silver washed fritillary could still fly but it could, and it was recharging for another day'...

the first and only blue I have seen this year. I have am not sure what the insect below is called but it looks very odd! I think it is ca...

meadow brown (above) and ringlets (below) mating today

one of the smaller flowers in the meadows is eyebright (above), and like everything else this year bastard balm (below) is flowering very...

The glades and fringes of the meadows were full of cowwheat today but there was no sign of any heath fritillaries. In fact we onl...

We went in search of the green hairstreak butterfly today. We did not see a single butterfly of any sort, but there were lots of little ...

The mallard squadron returns. Two drakes and a female showing off their fancy specula (?). the speculum (in birds) is a bright patch of c...

a fritillary adding some vivid colour to a meadow full of devil's bit scabious and betony (below). To our eyes these butterflies se...

at long last, a photo of a butterfly (a very tattered heath fritillary) on a butterfly orchid, it is a meadow icon. I am not sure why bu...

The sun brought out the butterflies today, they must be getting desperate! The range and balance of wild flowers in Greenscombe (I am ne...