A sunny day, we visit the wildlife garden. We find little in the way of invertebrates, but, as we are about to leave, on the south facing ...

 A fresh female Red Admiral basked on a sycamore trunk, probably with a full stomach after feeding on an early flowering buddleja nearby. ...

 The sun shone all day yesterday and we had some lovely active garden invertebrates, including the first hoverfly ( Eristalis tenax ) and...

The outside of our garden fence is east facing. Many insects and spiders like to bask on it: even normally ground loving invertebrates cl...

If a neighbour had casually seen me on my garden this morning, he or she could have rightly thought either that I was out of my mind or that...

We've had a wonderful sunny start of March. Mornings are still frosty, but - compared to the past three long, cold, cloudy and gloomy mo...