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  • Hedgehog

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

  • 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

  • Early hawthorn leaves

    Common Hawthorn – Crataegus monogyna, at Dawlish Warren

  • Turnstones

    Turnstones, Arenaria interpres, off the Devon coast near Dawlish

  • Foreign Land

    ‘Whenever George thought of the sea, it seemed to him a kindly place mainly because he imagined himself floating away on it leaving his unbuoyant father stranded on the beach. On summer holidays, first in Dawlish, then in Ilfracombe, Mr Grey led his family to this dangerous element like Moses going at the head of…