Wild and Wonderful

  1. Poppy, possibly 'sown' by the birds (is it perhaps a cultivated specimen?) We had a plumber working away on a leaking valve thi...

  We had both had our suspicions that a frog was living in our mini-pond. I thought I saw small dark head in the middle of the (rather overg...

  We have two mini-ponds in our garden at present, situated in partial shade under some large ivy leaves. Some weeks ago we stocked these ti...

I had seen records of the Garden Tiger on the web so I knew the adult moth was on the wing, but I had not expected to encounter this larv...

This was my first 2017 sighting of a (male) Banded Demoiselle . It was perching above the small pond, while down below... ......