Spent a lovely afternoon pottering around Hartslock today with a friend … the showers held off for for most of the time and, with all…

No sooner have we seen the last of the Dingy skippers bite the dust then the next species are on the wing … what a…

Today I went up to the site to help Gerry with some scrub-cutting … he does the actual cutting while I stand guard and make…

Found this really lovely giant aphid* today … it’s about 1cm long. There were also a few Ephemera vulgata & lineata plus all of the…

Birds: Red Kite, Buzzard, Kestrel & Hobby Butterflies: Dingy Skipper, Grizzled Skipper, Green Hairstreak, Speckled Wood, Small Heath & Common Blue

The recent winds haven’t abated yet so everything is blowing about up on the reserve, but in general the orchids and invertebrates are doing as…

Went up to the reserve this morning to meet up with a researcher who might be doing a project on orchid phenology this year. While…

We have been mapping orchids since February and have been making good progress, finding most of the plants that were up last year. However this…

I hurried up to Hartslock today during a gap in the rain and as I arrived the site looked superb – sunny and humid –…