As the sun drops in the sky, after a scorcher of a day in the Teign Valley, I sit down to write you all an update still revelling in this evenings close encounter with a striking, yet often elusive, little bird. After work I set off and walked about 3km from Woodah Farm to the […]
Read more "Close encounters"Greetings from a blustery Devon! The wind has been tumbling clouds across the sky today, an ever changing palette of blues and greys – add some rain showers and the metaphorical watercolours were flowing as we fixed fencing at Bystock. Now as the sun sets calm has resumed and the view out of my window […]
Read more "Bracken, Brushcutters and Badger runs"The evenings are getting longer, the sun is getting hotter.. it seems somehow summer has snuck up on us again! This years generation of birds are beginning to fledge, and the hedge banks glow with new green growth. At the end of a hot day at work on Friday, we celebrated the start of the bank […]
Read more "Summer is coming!"Hello again lovely people who are taking the time to read my writings! It has been a rainy day of putting up deer netting in the world of this trainee conservationist.. so I thought I would sit down (in my dry, warm flat) and write a little post looking back on the highlights of last […]
Read more "Bird Boxes and Green-winged Orchids"As I sit down to write this, I’ve just stepped in from eating my dinner outside, watching the sunset while swallows swoop above me and a kestrel hovers, hunting for its evening meal in the field across the yard. This morning we were up and out as the dawn broke, to hear the dawn chorus […]
Read more "Heathland, tractors and bird song"Where to begin… a week of so many new places, species, and people! A quick interlude to last week first… An unexpected close encounter with a beautiful fox (pictured below) at Higher Kiln Quarry reserve was a heartwarming reminder of how lucky I am to be out in these wildlife havens each day. We stood […]
Read more "Bluebells and butterflies"This is the excerpt for your very first post.
Read more "The beginning…"
Learnings of an aspiring conservationist 