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

For the first time this year the air is full of butterflies.  One can see why the buddleia is called the butterfly bush. There wa...

William, the new kid on the block, tucking in to his mare's milk, and showing signs of his curious and friendly temperament. He was b...

Despite the most miserable wet cloudy cold dreary August ever (bar the golden days of London 2012) a warm day has brought out some of our...

a young hawk (not sure which type) and a magpie confront each other in the garden today.

there may not be many butterflies around but there are a lot of dragonflies zipping up and down. I think this is a southern hawker althoug...

This unusual looking caterpillar is probably a larva of some sort of sawfly (see link to previous Spotblog page). Apparently the word ca...