Four-Spotted Chasers
There’s something deeply alien about Dragonflies. These Four-Spotted Chasers have huge compound eyes just like a space helmet. And the translucent exoskeleton …
There’s something deeply alien about Dragonflies. These Four-Spotted Chasers have huge compound eyes just like a space helmet. And the translucent exoskeleton …
There’s a beautiful pair of Mandarin Ducks on the pond. It’s worrying me though that there seems to be something wrong with …
It’s a beautiful evening. There’s half of the moon visible. The sky is deepest blue. Clouds are white. Then I hear a …
My son says there are Bee Orchids at Berry Head and that his colleague has seen them and given him exact directions …
There’s a Great Crested Grebe on a nest in the middle of the Lake. I’m looking at it closely when I realise …
The Green Tiger Beetle (Cicindela campestris) has yellow spots on an amazing textured metallic emerald green back. Green Tiger Beetles prey upon …
As part of the Wildlife Trusts’ #30DaysWild I’m heading out to have some nature experiences every day this month. Today I’m heading …
There’s a pair of Magpies in the tree by the lake in the park. They are noisy and busy, attracting attention from …
When did you last spend an hour so completely absorbed in something in the natural world that you forgot what time it …
I love it when information boards tell me what to look for: And then I find it:
There’s a Grey Heron in the bracken at RSPB Ham Wall Nature Reserve. It’s at this point that I’m glad I’m not …
Nettles. I remember getting stung badly by Nettles as a child. What stopped the stinging wasn’t rubbing my poor legs with Dock …
There really is no point in chasing Broad-Bodied Chasers. That’s not because they are one of the commonest Dragonflies across Europe and …
There’s a female Beautiful Demoiselle perched next to the pond. I can tell it’s a female because it’s got white spots on …
There’s an unusual fungus on a thin tree branch in the woods surrounding Orley Common. I know that I’ve never seen it …
A visit to Dawlish Warren, not for a kiss-me-quick hat or a round of adventure golf, but for the wildlife of the …
Wren. It’s such a simple, short and easy name. Wren. The Wren’s scientific name is Troglodytes troglodytes. That’s not as short or …
The Common Spotted Orchid is an orchid which is common and spotted. They are just coming into flower all over this heathland …
I’m so familiar with the call of Long-Tailed Tits, or Long-Tailed Bushtits as I prefer to call them, that I hardly look …
The information board at RSPB Otmoor says there’s a Turtle Dove in the trees at the Reserve. Frustratingly I can’t see it …
Cowslips used to be universally known by British people. They were part of our culture, being made into garlands in May Day …
There’s an interesting fungus on this piece of dead wood. I’ve always known it as Cramp Balls, or Daldinia concentrica, but my friend …
The River Exe has a railway line running the full length from Exmouth to Exeter on one side and from Dawlish Warren …
There’s an Orange Tip Butterfly without the orange tips to its wings in this field in Somerset. It must be a female, …
If your species is going to have to swim to eat and survive, you would have thought that you would have evolved …
I’m out for a walk along the River Exe with my camera. There are a few small wading birds around but nothing …
The ponds at RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset are alive with Yellow Irises. Iris pseudacorus
There’s a Damselfly with a blue stripe on its tail over the water in Somerset: It’s a Blue-Tailed Damselfly, Ischnura elegans.
There’s a Great Crested Grebe on the lake at Ham Wall RSPB Reserve in Somerset one minute, and the next, it’s gone. …
I was wondering what this hairy dragonfly was called: Then I found out it was called the Hairy Dragonfly. Some people are …