To me, poor February seems to be stuck in the middle between Winter and Spring, not sure whether it is one season or the other! Signs of Spring The days are starting to be noticeably longer and there is a faint warmth in the returning sun, but it can still be really...
Unusually, for early June it has been raining a lot recently but when out and about, it seems to me that many of our wild animals don’t seem to mind this too much and some creatures and plants positively thrive in the damp, cooler weather. I have watched on an almost...
‘Peacock’ butterfly A hive of activity There is a lot of activity at the house just now because we have had various teams carrying out surveys. Ecology, topographical and geophysical surveys – basically attempting to map and document everything...