April 2012
The end of March is upon us and we can all congratulate ourselves on surviving the infamous ides of March. Spring is well and truly sprung and we can see spring flowers...
March 2011
Some months go by and you can hardly see a difference from start to finish, whilst other rush by in a blur of change. February was just such a month; we started...
February 2011
Happy New Year! Our New Year started well as far as Mother Nature was concerned. At the beginning of the month I got to re stack my older (oven ready) logs to...
January 2011
There have been lots of exciting visitors to the Roseland over the last few weeks as the cold Nordic weather has swung south over the British Isles. Redwings have been seen and,...
December 2010
Autumn is usually the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, but not this year! November has been unseasonably cold and all the old signs of a hard winter are much in evidence-...
November 2010
There are just too many beautiful walks around here. One that we do quite often – and always on a Sunday morning – is the circular route through the woods at Trelissick....
October 2010
We spent a goodly part of September north of the border (The one between England and Scotland, not the Tamar) and I was struck all over again by the differences to be...
September 2010
I can’t understand why Cirl buntings are so scarce. We have been tracking one pair (well, actually something of a threesome!) over the summer that have started three broods! The first brood...
August 2010
August already! I hope you are making the most of this long, reasonably hot summer. I have been out and about a lot just recently, my friends at RSPB asked me to...