Wild Life

Came across this growing by the side of a path on our way to the Half Moon in Plumpton. It also caught the eye of o...

My annual Scottish winter trip was based in Tongue, Sutherland, at the end of January. Our time was bookended by two storms: Gertrude an...

A new species. Possibly not the first this year as I've managed to identify a few mosses and liverworts, but I was reminded ...

"Little egret" by Karthik Easvur - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons So here is the 365th post for 2015. I h...

A pair of Azure Damselflies, Coenagrion puella , flying in tandem and laying eggs in the pond back in June.

This Iris foetidissima leaf is infected by the Iris Rust, Puccinia iridis . It is the sort of life one overlooks, even as someone with a...

You have to look carefully but when you do you can just make out the palps of a labyrinth spider,  Agelena labyrinthica,  waiting patien...

Another moss, this time collected on our Boxing Day walk across the Downs from Firle Beacon and back along the old coach road for a warm...