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

fox crossing near the zebra?

breakfast   lunch

On Penny's Piece this morning

Our hedgehog is definitely on the mend, eating and drinking and doing a bit of stomping about (and increasingly ignoring us). Still not q...

I think we are going to be OK. We have moved out of the box, had something to eat and drink, and used the toilet facilities. If all is wel...

We have seen plenty of hedgehogs in the grounds recently but never during the day. This hedgehog was found curled up out in the open at mi...

Spot often finds one hedgehog in the garden, and has learnt to leave them alone, but this is the first time we have seen two at the same t...

The hawthorn is out! and nothing goes to waste around here, exotic fallen Camelia flower tea

rabbit at prayers this morning, and this afternoon a visitation by a small flock of goldfinches. Goldfinches form flocks in the winter ...

Even by our standards this was a bit of a crowd. The squirrel (who looks very brown for a grey) is the new kid on the block, and the t...

  some wild life on the road around the island of Kvaløya   the white tailed sea eagle (see link )

It was extremely wet and windy yesterday! still shell shocked, and hanging on for dear life, or like grim death. (It is interestin...

a fox trying to look innocent stalking rabbits, and a young blackbird unflustered by the camera

It seems that everyone is keen to appear on Spot's blog, including this visiting prince looking for his princess. This was a large and...

Good to see that something can eat miscanthus other than power stations. A female roe deer who didn't sense us as we approached.

Pest (or pet), the lack of growth in the grass is driving the local warren inhabitants back into our gardens.

in the woods today

I can't tell you how much pleasure it gives me to discover a grass snake in our garden and to be able to photograph it basking in th...

a frog in the hand is worth .... ? For some reason we have had an invasion of frogs indoors, so we gently escort them out.

a fox ambling across the skyline a holly blue taking a break and Harriet with Spring in her step, behind a tattered phea...