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

a juvenile great spotted woodpecker, spotted in the woods today. These birds are very shy and like to stay out of line of sight. Spot has b...

It is national bug week ( link ), we ought to celebrate. Here are three butterflies caught in action today, the marbled white (top) the mead...

I was fascinated to find this silky spider nursery full of junior spiders, guarded by mum lurking in the undergrowth. The nursery is surpr...

meadowsweet, valerian, foxgloves, hedge bedstraw, wood sage and ferns provide the framework for our lanes. It's well worth clicking on t...

meadowsweet (the white one) and tufted vetch (the blue one, and a member of the pea family). Meadow sweet has two distinct fragrances and ha...

the meadows were very damp yesterday morning and we all got soaked by the knee high grasses. These little chaps were just taking it very eas...