Tales of the Riverbank

 Common lizard Very juvenile newt   Field voles  Prees Heath Meadow Pipit  Comma  Fly agaric  Co...

I never see much of the voles after early September, so this blog goes into semi-hibernation for the winter. However, I...

Common toad and Common Blues at Black Park Road    The ditch at Broughall, with some water vole droppings ...

Shy vole  Above: two feeding stations and a piece of vole-cut stalk.  Latrine sites Looks like a burrow...

 Grey seals  A toad (and the ferrule of my husband's walking stick).  Painted Lady  Brimstone  An odd t...

 Elephant hawk moth  Gatekeeper  Common shrew  Baby grass snake (Brown Moss) Swallows I am really s...

 The cloud of sediment that sometimes tells you you've just missed a water vole.  Comma  Common Blue  Small Copper ...