Moor Copse
I've been to Moor Copse (Pangbourne) before but not for ages. There are lots of different walks you can do, and - if you're like us - that includes one where you get completely lost in a boggy bit of ...
Butterflies
In the garden and at Maiden Erlegh Lake
The weather has been up and down again with some rain and high winds but also some nice sunshine. The birds are very busy in the garden and the pond is gradually looking more interesting. I have used the compost ...
Local and garden activity
The weather is changeable again at the moment with quite high winds and some showers but I have had a couple of little walks at Southlake and the butterfly meadow in Woodley. It is eerily quiet at the moment - ...
Garden activity In the air and in the water
The garden is very active at the moment, butterflies are beginning to arrive (blues, peacock, orange-tip), the birds are either mating or nesting and the pond is teeming with tadpoles. My new pond plants are also growing really well. The ...
Hot and sunny walk at Hosehill Lake
Yesterday was unbelievably hot - today is much cooler and rainy which is more usual! I had a really nice walk around Hosehill Lake and managed to take a few photos despite my bad hand which is preventing me from ...
Aston Rowant and Hambledon
We didn't know where to go the other day so decided to have a look at somewhere we had passed recently en route to Otmoor. Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve turned out to be somewhere Paul has always wanted to ...
Short strolls in the sunshine
I haven't been on any hugely interesting walks recently but have been to a couple of places while the sun has been shining - it is cloudy and damp again today! The first one was along part of Jubilee River ...
A few birds in the garden
All the birds are busy mating and nesting and are quite lively at the moment, hunting round the garden for nesting material. The sparrows nest in the corner of the house roof by the guttering and do the same next ...
A walk in the fleeting spring sunshine….
Yesterday (Sunday) was warm and sunny for most of the day, with very little wind, so we went to see if any of the snakes had come out of hibernation. Unfortunately, we had great difficulty reaching the site on foot ...
Through fields and groves – Part 2
There are quite a few butterflies appearing on the scene at the moment. Large Whites seem to be everywhere, Red Admirals are beginning to appear, although not in large numbers yet, and I saw one Green Hairstreak as well as ...
Back with the Butterflies in the Glasshouse at RHS Wisley
The Butterflies are back in the Glasshouse at Wisley and I enjoyed it so much last year that I wanted to go again. I was slightly disappointed as there didn't seem to be as many this time and I was ...
Monarch butterfly
The Monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, is a milkweed butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is the most common butterfly in North America but is also now found in Australia, New Zealand, Canary Islands, Azores and Madeira and is an occasional ...
Birds, bees, butterflies and other sundry items
I was just wandering along, happily snapping anything and everything that caught my eye. Nice colours, shapes, plants...just a random shoot.
Sara Longwing
This rather colourful butterfly is the Sara Longwing, Heliconius sara, a species of neotropical heliconiid butterfly usually found all the way from Mexico to the Amazon Basin and southern Brazil. The wing surface is black with a large patch of ...
Lang’s Short-tailed Blue
This is a Lang's Short-tailed Blue, Leptotes pirithous, sometimes also known as the Common Zebra Blue, a very small butterfly. The uppersides of the wings are a purpley blue colour in males, bluish-brown in females. The undersides are dark beige ...
Bees, butterflies, wasps and flies
There were a few Large Whites about today, as usual, but then a couple of rather nice Red Admirals decided to come out to play.
