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

A great treat was in store for us last night when we returned home. There on the gate post was a small owl. Dazzled by the headlights it sat...

we are not the only ones who like the taste of these cooking apples. The tree is a graft from a much older tree that was the victim of honey...

oh the joys of hoverflies and having the definitive guide to them (Stubbs and Falk), no longer do we need to misidentify everything as ...

He is still confined to the house, so we are unable to go on our usual long and exciting walks, and are reduced to photos of things in the g...

the common but very pretty tortoiseshell butterfly, distinguished from the rarer large tortoiseshell by the heavy black scaling around the b...

another close up of the hover fly. What interested me was the little shield between the two compound eyes with three little raised spots. Th...