Daily Diary

The meadows are looking quite glorious at the moment, swathes and swathes of Pale Flax, their delicate blue flowers tu...

There’s a hum in the air as I enter the woodland at Sunnydale. Flies circling the cool shade below a full canopy...

Around me the wonderful song of a Skylark, accompanied by the songs of Blackbird and Song Thrush, plus the near consta...

An early morning stroll brought me towards the cliffs, passing the superb blue Bugle growing in good numbers on the te...

Across the meadows a gorgeous blue hue is visible, as the Pale Flax flowers are in full bloom, carpeting above the gra...

I was delighted to see on the centre wall a shiny metallic green beetle which I learnt was a Mint Leaf Beetle. Overhea...

The sunlight breaks through the cloud. It alights the chalk white cliffs of Ballard Down and the stacks at Old Harry R...

A windy morning with a light drizzle which eventually disappears as the morning brightens up. Heading along Long Meado...

It’s a sunny start at Durlston with last night’s raindrops still glistening upon the grass. It’s lov...

Amongst the light dew I pondered shed dog hair which might be repurposed as a bedding by a bird or mammal. I smiled at...

On the first Sea Bird Boat Trip of the year last night, we were lucky to see four Puffins on the ledge at Dancing Ledg...

What a beautiful morning, after yesterday’s wild ever-changing weather it’s a pleasant surprise. Heading s...

Crawling beside the path were the trumpet flowers of Field Bindweed. Upon the wall, beside the gate, the delicate flow...

It is cool with a brisk wind as I get out of my car, doesn’t feel like mid-May I thought to myself. As I walk th...

I arrive for my final morning patrol at Durlston to a firmament of perfect azure and a cool no’westerly remindin...

A glorious morning out on the National Nature Reserve with the sound of Common Whitethroats rattling and scratching fr...

I head out across the meadows which are lined with scatterings of yellow flowers where the Bulbous Buttercup has bloom...

Through the meadows where I’m accompanied by the near constant song a Skylark somewhere in the distance. The ver...

A beautiful sunny morning spreads out across the park this morning as I make my way down long meadow. Pale Flax sways ...

After a period of near-constant sunshine, this morning is cooler, quieter and more grey, with just a Chiffchaff and so...

With the return of the Hereford cows and new calves now imminent, I went off towards the downland to check on the newl...

After a long weekend on Romania’s Danube Delta, luxuriating in squadrons of Great White Pelicans, booming Bitter...

A very still morning, not a single rustle in the leaves or a wave on the sea. However the sound of corvids (crow famil...

It’s a damp and more humid morning after yesterday afternoon’s heavy downpour, but at least the water isn&...

Though overcast and misty this morning, spring seems to be showing off, with little to no breeze birds are out in forc...

The car park is buzzing with birds singing away Robins, Chaffinches, Dunnock, Chiffchaff, Great Tit, Wren and Herring ...

As I walked out across the National Nature Reserve where the northerly wind was making the leaves and blossom of the H...

Another morning of blue sky and bright sunlight, though the nor’easterly is stronger and fresher than the condit...

This morning I headed out to the farmland to replace some connectors on the water supply, as I sat on the dried mud th...

Another warm sunny morning. I enter the park at Sunnydale, weathered Dandelion clocks standing tall amongst the grass....