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.

easy to hear, easy to see

a yellowhammer (probably a male, but with a very rusty chest), calling attention to itself with the characteristic call "bit of bread and butter and cheeeeEESe" except the call can be quite variable and this one missed off the cheese. His mate was nearby, and usually they feed away from the nest. Like many birds they have been badly affected by the use of herbicides and other changes in farming practice