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

Something that caught our eye this morning was seed heads of grass bent over by silk. As can be seen in the bottom picture the cast-off s...

This cold damp bumblebee was found this morning hanging by one foot from a scabious seed head, about to fall stuporose into the meadow ...

We saw two or three clouded yellows today, this is several weeks earlier than last year. Clouded yellows are usually migrants from southe...

 red, green, yellow and blue, everything is appearing  a tortoiseshell on ragged robin   a small skipper on campion  a f...

It's the best day of the year. The bluebell woods are in full bloom. Two Hungarian vizslas from Rezare are ambling over for a chat...

It was a lovely winter's day for a walk in the woods.

Alfie, today's guest dog. I have no idea what he was doing in the top picture, possibly looking for water-fowl or otters, but we ha...

Hard though it is to remember, these meadows were full of butterflies only a few months ago (see link ). Below is an example of witches...

a strange looking bumblebee, which, even with the help of the Natural History Museum site (see link ), I can't identify. It is probab...

It was all getting a bit crowded. Bramble and knapweed have almost stopped flowering, and the meadows are full of devil's bit scab...

We saw 15 species of butterfly today on our walk along the Inny, including several more clouded yellows. They always close their wings...

the meadows were teeming with butterflies again today including this handsome painted lady, the first one I have seen this year.

 It was butterfly heaven in the meadows today. Above is a peacock feeding on knapweed, showing the stark contrast between its colorful ...

Two dainty fairies clad in blue, and the first of this year's comma butterflies

Hard though it is to believe it has been hot and sunny for almost two weeks now. This is the first spell of decent summer weather we have...

for the first time this year the butterflies are stirring in the meadows. There were dozens of meadow browns (top) and skippers (middle) a...

the Inny at its greenest, and a female wide bodied chaser (or libellula) freshly emerged and drying off in the sun

The recent cold dull weather has brought Spring to a grinding halt, but here and there are signs of the slow emergence of the first of our...

the Inny valley in late winter, showing the gentle slopes down to the river. The sun is out and the sheep are grazing.

even earlier than usual purple toothwort makes its annual appearance in the woods by the Inny and an ambi-otic collie (Meg) making...