Wild and Wonderful

And now for something a little different and rather special. My kind and creative friend and poetic collaborator, Kay Weeks (in the U...

We visited NT Anglesey Abbey some days ago, and right on cue in the woodland 'Wildlife Discovery Area', we saw a 7-spot Ladybird...

The solar eclipse, the most significant since 11 August 1999, was the event that never really happened in my neck of the woods. This is...

We saw three Nuthatches this afternoonat NT Ickworth. The first one we saw was high up in a tree, but it flew down, and we noticed...

I saw a butterfly - my first of 2015 - fluttering past me at the front of our house this morning. I thought it was a Peacock, but it was a b...

We had a lovely visit to NT Ickworth on Saturday. The Canada Geese were patrolling the pond.  We checked for spawning frogs, but c...

My thanks to Juliet Wilson, known to most of us in the blogosphere as Crafty Green Poet . Juliet has nominated me for a Very Inspiring Bl...

            and                           2015                   This post is the twelfth in my Tree Following series, part of a ...

This 7-spot Ladybird was very close to our Suffolk home. I imagine a bit of sunshine had caused the insect to arise from its overwinterin...

I have just returned from two stimulating days at the Norfolk Festival of Nature . We arrived at The Auden Theatre at Gresham's ...