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

all the young blackbirds flew the nest this morning except this tail end Charlie (Charlene I think). It may well be the bird rescued earlier...

So far so good. After some hesitation, the martins have completed one nest and are well on the way to finishing the second nest. It sounds...

It turns out that sparrows are well know for bullying martins. On the advice of the RSPB (see link ) we have made a sparrow barrier out of o...

Oh to be outside when the sun is shining! (large paintings by Dianne Nevitt see link , small pictures by Mary Stork ..it is worth goo...

Spot has also been quite taken by all the interesting interiors on other blogs so he would like to show you where he spends a lot of his tim...