News & Journal

The beginning of February marks the ‘turning of the light’, the point in the calendar when warmth begins to return to the earth

Bird calls carry through the air in a frosted January and provide a winter soundscape.

A moth fluttered between the Delphinium and the Erysimum Bowles Mauve. Its flight was erratic but it was persistent in feeding…

Lapwings were late summer visitors to the fields where my parents lived. In the evenings, you could hear their peep peep calls…

We woke this morning to a soft mist that veiled the sunrise. The lanes were quiet, sprinkled with a first falling of leaves.

One sultry evening this August I looked up to see a caterpillar crossing the kitchen floor. After much hunting through books, and eventually on the internet, I discovered it was of the Grey Dagger Moth.