Fledgling
“Unexpected fledgling in the dragonfly area. Please wait.” So there I was this afternoon at the old wharf at Cleeve Prior Mill, rummaging about for Odonata by one of the fishing pegs on the river bank, when there was a … Continued
Mystery object
I sent a version of this photo to the Offspring this afternoon, asking for suggestions on a postcard as to what was going on. Neither of them had any idea, which tends to confirm my suspicion that in the twenty … Continued
First of the year
In the middle of a busy day, I sneaked an hour up at the Community Orchard in Cleeve Prior, where there was no dragon activity at any of the ponds, but the strips of long grass and wild flowers between … Continued
Meadow Brown
I’ve reduced the half-dozen books I used to have on British butterflies to just three: Butterflies of the West Midlands, which has good local information including walks and likely sites for spotting various species; Peter Eeles’ excellent Life Cycles of … Continued
In the pink
We’d been told to expect wet weather for much of the day, and I’d planned my time accordingly, but in the event we didn’t get much rain till this evening, when the garden got the kind of soaking that meant … Continued