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

a strange looking bumblebee, which, even with the help of the Natural History Museum site (see link ), I can't identify. It is probab...

We weren't the only ones to go blackberrying today. Strangely quiet without Max to fret about.

After a long and slow decline, and a rapid turn for the worse this last few days, Max was put quietly to sleep today. He was 15 and a b...

Evidence of bumblebee theft, the lower part of the petal tube of garden phlox has been stripped  away allowing easy access to the nectar.

While I watched a sparrowhawk being mobbed by martins today as it hovered over the garden looking for sparrows, and a humming bird mot...

Photographic proof that some collies can swim! Meg will do anything to get hold of a stick before Harriet and Spot. Most collies we know ...