Ragged Robin's Nature Notes

For nearly a year work has been ongoing to convert Castle Bromwich Hall (built at the end of the sixteenth century in a late Elizabethan sty...

I was thrilled to see a female blackcap in the garden this morning - the first time I have seen the species in the garden this year. She spe...

Cold and cloudy with drizzly rain most of the day. We had to vacate the property by 10.00 a.m. and we popped into Barmouth to have another l...

I do believe this is about to be my shortest post ever! Set the moth trap last night and when I checked it this morning there was absolutely...

The weather was warmer today and thank goodness the wind had dropped - it was mainly cloudy with a few sunny intervals. We were late going o...

A short interlude from the holiday in Wales and back to Moths. I ran the trap last Saturday night, 22nd October. There were only four moths ...

After a picnic lunch we went back into the Village. Just past the gatehouse there is a little round observation tower to the left of the pat...