We had a plan this morning to go up to Newton and the Long Nanny to search for Dark Green Fritillaries, but the weather put paid to that...

Just sitting around weeding and pondering in the sun this morning when Jane said - Whats that? A glance upward revealed our second garde...

To relieve the mid summer birding doldrums a county mega arrived on Sunday morning at Gosforth Park Nature Reserve. Little Bittern has a few...

This morning JWR and myself took an unseasonable trip up to the Harthope Valley in the Cheviots. The weather was warm, but remained st...

Another lovely day to sit around the garden bumping into some of our local wildlife... This Tree Bumblebee looked about done for, ...

This moth was in a catch of 256 moths of 68 species this morning. Its a Sallow Kitten . Not too uncommon really but its a first for me ...

Some machair flowers. Machair at Balranald. Masses of flowers on the sandy fields. On Thursday the weather was grey and overcast wit...

Corn Bunting  Tuesday, bright sunny and clear later on. I had an earlyish start this morning, back along to Balranald, where a Corn Bunt...

Or to be more precise, Berneray, North Uist, Benbecula and South Uist for our holidays last week. Most years we venture up north into Scot...

The Excavations, taken on my phone. For a change I decided to head out early for the half hour drive north to Holy Island. At this time...

A family of 5 fledged Tree Sparrows hunted around our lawn this evening, catching unseen invertebrates. One juvvy was a bit more sinister...

This was a new one for me in the trap the other night...I think it is Nematopogon swarziellus . Use that as your password!