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  • Pipistrelle

    Saw a bat flying over the garden for the first time, at about 10.30 pm last night. The bat detector identified it as a common pipistrelle.

  • Great Spotted Woodpecker

    Clear morning at 6.30 am, then clouds/fog suddenly appeared from the north, moving very fast. No breeze whatsoever at ground level – every leaf perfectly still and the sun looking like a full moon through the haze. Swifts flying very low though the back gardens, barely skimming the tops of the fences, and a Great…

  • Hedgehog

    Spotted a hedgehog on the garden path at about twenty-past four this morning – the first one I’ve seen here.

  • Damselflies

    Red Damselfly spotted on 22nd May and several Blues on 24th – the Blues not wasting any time but mating already. Also a Poplar Hawkmoth found on the garden fence again on 24th May – possibly a new specimen, although still with the distinctive dark patch on the head, quite unlike the illustration in the…

  • Eyed Hawkmoth

    Eyed Hawkmoth Smerinthus ocellata. Previously wrongly identified as a Poplar Hawkmoth. The confusion was due to the fact that we didn’t get a chance to see the ‘eyes’, plus the Chinery illustration for the Eyed Hawkmoth doesn’t show the hindwings projecting forwards, though the text does describe them this way. Thanks James.

  • Sundial

    Sundial, St Michael and All Angels, Chagford, Devon.

  • Wood Anemones

    Wood Anemones, Chagford, Devon.

  • Warcleave Cottage

    We spent a week at this National Trust holiday cottage by the River Teign.

  • Apple blossom

    Crab apple Malus sylvestris John Downie

  • Hornbeam catkins

    European Hornbeam or Common Hornbeam – Carpinus betulus