Nocturnal visitors

Spot welcomes a hedgehog to the grounds of OH. This is the first hedgehog we have seen for a very long time and it is reassuring to know they are still around in our very hedgehog friendly garden (minus canine companions).By coincidence in the Spring edition of Wild Cornwall, the magazine of Cornwall Wildlife Trust, which has only just arrived, there is a request for sightings of hedgehogs to be reported to the Cornwall mammal Group (see link). So we have reported it and in doing so learnt our OS coordinates.

lanes of rivers

these images from the river Lynher below Golberdon today are very reminiscent of the lanes with their luminous tones of green. The midges are forming in great clouds as the day warms up.

black legs, bluebells and trout

It has been very warm weather this weekend and the bluebells in our woods are at their peak. And, for the very first time we have actually managed to photograph a brown trout in the Inny.
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Waiting for one of these (a demoiselle or blue agrion) to land on its head.


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too hot to stand

Cash, dreaming of lying in a field of buttercups. He sometimes gets up and does riding for the disabled.

almost done buildin'

it has been hard work (see here for the start of this year's work) but both nests are now restored and no doubt soon we will be woken every morning by the raucous sound of many hungry chicks demanding to be fed. The air is full of very busy house martins.

queen anne's lace

cow parsley is out everywhere, and for a short time looks quite pretty (and fluffy hence one of its folk names) although umbellifers are not usually so attractive and many are extremely poisonous.