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

the Tamar at Calstock viaduct on a warm October afternoon

At last summer has arrived with some warm sunshine. The meadows are full of wild flowers. This is a heath fritillary (female) feeding on ...

Swallows roosting in our porch. They have had one unsuccessful attempt to breed already. Something (probably local sparrows) raided the ne...

you can start casting clouts, the May is out. (There is some dispute about the origin of this old saying, but I like to think it refers to...

I have been looking for this little green butterfly (the green hairstreak) for the last five years, and at last today in Greenscombe wood...

the black and red frog hopper looks like a mis-shapened ladybird but is one of the spittle bug family (see link British bugs ). They are ...