Am going to drink a toast to Brian and his flight tonight. A year ago, the first successful test flights.... 🦇 🥰🦇 Berry and L'il Jonesy were successfully released 4-5 weeks later. Their stay with me was prolonged somewhat as part way through their flight training, we...

I attended a group bat walk last p.m without my lovely fella. We've always done batty stuff together, so it felt very strange leaving him at home. An interesting p.m though, with lovely scenery, and nice folk, and we recorded 7 different bat species. Driving home, I...

Photo of Pickle a week after his rescue; he was now eating but still underweight and looking thin. I learned last night that Pickle, my rescued pipistrelle bat, had initially been found on the ground on his back, with his wings open. Unsure if it was a dead leaf, the...

  No matter how many times I see, Blue, parading around outside, this view always stops me dead in my tracks.  Even when he's toodling about with his tail feathers down; he's still breathtakingly beautiful.

Super bluebell woodland walks on our doorstep over a few days. Woodcock, brown hare sighting and the birds were singing. Beautiful. We've had extreme cold and/or wet days and nights, but thankfully it seems to have improved over the past few days. I've finally been...

https://youtube.com/shorts/9wxiq_XHegE?feature=share   Years ago we planted a meadow patch in the garden and later included a small area for a variety of wild grasses. Both looked great and worked extremely well. Last year we decided to give the whole garden to...