The big butterfly count is now on! https://bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org/ Everyone can join in. Here’s what I found in the fields between Pury End and Sholebrook Lodge. Continue reading NATURE HUNT: Big Butterfly Count

Early morning sparrow squawk jostles through my bedroom window and the snowdrops’ meek bowed heads shiver in the breeze. Winter’s cold hard grip is slackening and Spring sunlight is chinking through the loosening grasp. At last another wild year begins. Continue reading NATURE HUNT: Hang on in, it’s nearly Spring

The recent cold snap made me grab my camera and head out to our local fields. Everything looked pristine and sparkling in a sugar-white frosting. Red berries, the last yellow leaves and evergreen ivy added splashes of colour to the monochrome backdrop. Winter wore it’s most spectacular garb. Continue reading NATURE HUNT: Winter Wowsers

“Red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue” so goes the Peggy Lee song about the rainbow (Pink? Really?). Let’s give the first four a go with Paulerspury and Pury End autumn colours! Continue reading NATURE HUNT: Red and Yellow and…

If you’ve been startled by seeing someone darting to and fro in the Paulerspury and Pury End fields I apologise. Photographing butterflies seems to involve a lot of hareing around. Luckily there are lots of them fluttering by. Continue reading NATURE HUNT: Flitting by

The annual national Big Butterfly Count finishes this Sunday 7th August. Everyone is welcome to join in, you don’t have to be an expert! Here’s some I found in the fields around Paulerspury and Pury End last week. Continue reading NATURE HUNT: Aflutter and abuzz this Summer

A gentle meander on an undulating high mountain pasture though meadows, woodland and beside scree. Continue reading SWISS FLOWER WALKS: Spittelmatte, Kandertal.

The bridleway from Pury End to Whittlebury is a great leg stretch any time of year (coffee and cake from the Whittlebury Bakery helps my motivation!). Here’s ten Spring stunners for you to tick along the way. Continue reading NATURE HUNT: Ten Spring Bowling (along the bridleway)

There’s a buzz and a flutter when the sun’s out now. Follow your ears and focus your eyes to find these on the sun sun, sunny side of the hedgerows. Continue reading NATURE HUNT: Spring on the wing

An innocent-looking furry ball holds grisly secrets! Continue reading NATURE HUNT: CSI Pury End – The Tawny Owl Pellet