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

this year's brood of martins is almost ready to go. Their parents have been finding it difficult to hunt in the rain and the wind, but ...

At last the sun has returned. This afternoon like butterflies we went out and warmed our metaphorical wings. There were hundreds of marbled ...

If you are wondering why there haven't been any pictures for a few days it is because it hasn't stopped raining. We can't even g...

one of the many species of St John's wort, again to be found in Penny's piece. The ecology of this little patch of rough grass is ve...

One of the first marbled whites of the year, in Penny's piece near Luckett.

an occasional visitor to our garden, this time with a mate (not shown but busy burrowing into the next apple tree trunk).