Author: David

Two more mosses showing fruiting bodies. They were growing just inches from each other on the top of the same wall.

This subtly coloured peacock butterfly could be approached quite closely because it was warming up for the day by spreading its wings in the mid-morning sun.

One of the entrances to a badger’s set. This one has at least half a dozen entrances: some setts can have many more.

A fox’s den is also excavated, but has a narrower hole.

CORRECTION – while this post was waiting to be scheduled, someone saw the inhabitants of the hole at dusk. They were a fox, a vixen and at least five very young cubs – perhaps four weeks old as their fur was starting to change to reddish brown.

The leaves are now beginning to burst from these sticky buds.

These catkins are now fully out.

Yesterday’s hedge sparrow wasn’t a sparrow. And now a dead nettle which isn’t actually a nettle. It gets its name because the plants look very similar to nettles, and they are dead, i.e. harmless, lacking any sting.