Rosemary in a garden on the coast near Swanpool in Falmouth. Insight: Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) is an evergreen herb with many culinary uses and medicinal properties. It seems to help with many ailments but don’t over use the leaves as … Read More
This example was in the fields above the car park at Kennack Sands on The Lizard in Cornwall. Insight: Common Chickweed flowers all year and has even been found to flower and set seed under a cover of snow! It’s … Read More
These male flowers of Yew were recorded at Trelissick Garden, a National Trust property in Cornwall. Insight: Yew (Taxus baccata) is the longest living plant in Europe with some examples reputed to be over 9,000 years old.
Flowering on the grassy slopes above Swanpool Beach, Falmouth. Insight: Red Dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum) flowers from March to October and is common throughout most of the British Isles.
This first winter Stonechat was basking in the sun at Godrevy Point at the northern end of St Ives Bay in Cornwall. They’re one of the easier birds to photograph since they tend to perch out in the open on … Read More
Alexanders flowering yesterday in the warm spring sunshine on the coastal path above Swanpool in Falmouth. Insight: According to Culpeper, it is “effectual against the biting of serpents“.
Twelve Small Tortoiseshell and two Peacock butterflies were enjoying the afternoon sunshine along the sheltered cliffs leading down to Swanpool Beach, Falmouth today. So it looks as if good numbers of butterflies may have successfully hibernated through one of the … Read More
Suddenly, a couple of days ago, there’s a bit of sunshine and one or two hedges in and around Falmouth are full of blossoming Blackthorn. Insight: Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) is also known as Blackhaw, Buckthorn, Scrogg, Snag and Sloe.
Many fields in west Cornwall are yellow with Daffodils at the moment. It seemed the most appropriate post for St David’s Day.
A Small Tortoiseshell butterfly was seen briefly sunning itself on a wall sheltered from the cold north-westerly winds on Saturday, 26 February. Insight: A once very common butterfly throughout the UK, its numbers have declined in recent years partly due, … Read More
Fox Moth, moth, Macrothylacia rubi, caterpillar, larva, larvae, moths
Eupeodes luniger is our first hoverfly of 2011. It was feeding on Common Field-speedwell at Kennack Sands, part of the National Nature Reserve on The Lizard in Cornwall.