Best boy
Although it was a cold day, it was brighter one than we’ve seen for the past week, and I thought it was worth wrapping up well and going out with the macro in search of invertebrates. In the event there … Continued
Seasonally confused
Our next-door neighbour gave me a couple of cerinthe plants a few years ago, joking that we’d never now be rid of them. In fact they reacted with disfavour to the (relatively) nice bit of soil I found for them, … Continued
Pond dipping
It’s been quite stormy over the past couple of days, and by this morning the wildlife pond was pretty full of leaves, so I took a net and went to skim them. Almost immediately I realised that most of them … Continued
Contortionist
One of the earliest invertebrate arrivals in the garden this spring was a male Eristalis pertinax which was fond of basking on the aucuba, so it seems fitting that another male of that species should appear on the same shrub … Continued
