The awakening
In early spring when my usual route into the woodlands became too muddy, I headed to another part of the woods where there’s a pine plantation. The […]
Nature Diary
Nature notes and photography of flora and fauna during the changing seasons.
A deer view
Almost daily when I look out of the windows there’s a herd of fallow deer grazing in the field in the valley where we live.
Flying the Nest – The Early Days of Britain’s best loved animals
I bought this book to give as a gift but had to keep it. There are 50 illustrations by the painter Hannah Dale of baby
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It’s tulip time
I visited Gravetye Manor’s gardens yesterday to see what was blooming. Frank Sinatra’s song ‘It had to be you’ suddenly was in my head when
A countryside spring
I live in a rural valley in the middle of ancient woodlands in West Sussex. Our garden and the fields in this valley are lined
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Where deer rest
Herds of deer regularly graze at dawn and dusk in the fields around our garden. When I walk in the woods surrounding our rural valley in West