Tales of the Riverbank

 Common lizard  Common toads  Green hairstreak  Sundews I'm now seeing two or possibly thre...

I took a professional ecologist to see the colony at Mossfields today, because the site's teeming w...

Common shrew. The tail is half the length of the body. Water shrew. Tiny eyes!  Red-tailed bumblebee (I thin...

 skylark English bluebells  pied wagtail There's a lot to be said for sitting quietly in a green space, thinking (or no...

I don't normally put personal things on this blog, but this post is a special one for my wonderful mum, who died last night. Without ...

Plenty of burrows now in the banks, plus more and more voles.

Brown rat - very different from a water vole Sexton beetle Early Thorn Mum fox, and cubs Smug rabbit ...