How the weather changes! Until the 15th November there were still many insects active. Red Admiral butterflies could be seen cheek by jowl with wasps on windfall apples. Bumble bees were still...

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A month of above-average temperatures and many sunny days is giving our Roseland flora and fauna opportunities to prolong preparation for the winter ahead. If you’re out walking the fields and coastal...

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Spiders webs, dripping in dewy beaded jewells; hedgerows brimming with gloriously colourful ripe and ripening delicious fruits; the grains have all been harvested and the fields are in stubbles. It’s autumn (in...

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The past month of fantastic warm weather has seen an apparent complete turnaround in the fortunes of many species, as the sun’s life-giving energy permeates through all trophic levels, from plantlife all...

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Summer – could it actually be here at long last? Much of our nature would appear to indicate so, with an apparent boost in productivity at many levels in our local ecology,...

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Though rain on a bank holiday may dampen some spirits and darken the skies, there is also something greatly uplifting in the renewed zest and vigour restored Roseland flora that even in...

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The swallows are back. Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps too have returned and are singing in hedgerows. It must be spring at last. What a contrast to March, when such joyful returns were more...

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February has been a mixed month of weather. Having left behind days of relentless rain, things have turned brighter, drier, colder; then warmer, almost balmy on the beaches, with some crazy humans...

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The Roseland winter has, like much of the rest of Cornwall, been characterized by relentless days of grey skies, wind and rain. Nice weather for the female Long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis) still...

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