Stock Dove
There’s a pigeon above me. I think it’s a Wood Pigeon but it looks far too small and scrawny. It’s silhouetted in …
There’s a pigeon above me. I think it’s a Wood Pigeon but it looks far too small and scrawny. It’s silhouetted in …
This Squirrel has a message to all dog owners at my local country park. It’s a polite request to keep dogs on …
In Bridford Wood there’s a tree. On the tree is an unusual lichen; it’s called Graphis scripta, the Secret Writing Lichen. It’s …
It’s late and the light is dull. There’s nobody around at Stover Country Park apart from me and this female Great Spotted …
Today was a wonderful day for walking on Dartmoor. On the very far east of Dartmoor is the valley of the River …
Have you ever noticed that birds have no teeth? These handsome Pintails at Exeter’s Bowling Green Marsh have none: Having no teeth …
Will future generations have the same thrill of recognition as I do when I see a mass of frog spawn in the pond at Holden Clough?
It’s getting more and more unusual to find Russian corks on the beaches and sea caves on Westray. Here are some sheltering …
A large part of my childhood was spent walking many miles to a small steeply wooded valley, known in the north as …
Snow is a problem for people when you don’t prepare for it. It’s also a problem for wildlife. I’m wearing boots, waterproof …
Snow has been falling all afternoon and delicate powdery flakes have been cushioning the world into a different, eerie, soft and soundless …
In Pierowall on Westray in Orkney, the seals haul themselves up onto the rocks in the Bay. They lie scattered like the …
I’m enjoying leafing through a copy of Lilliput magazine from February 1955. ‘Lilliput is a man’s magazine’, it declares on the cover. …
There’s a deluxe duck in a flooded field in Exeter: It’s a Northern Shoveler: It has a face like a shovel. It’s …
I recently saw Little Egrets in Italy: Little Egrets Today I’m in Exeter and there’s one hunting on the Exe: Egretta garzetta …
I recently saw a flock of over 100 Curlews on the fields at the side of the River Exe. They seem to …