Crafty Green Poet

 I'll continue posting about our recent visit to Dumfries and Galloway in the next few days, but for now here are some photos of today...

 We had a very enjoyable break in Dumfries and Galloway, staying in our favourite hotel Friars Carse , a spacious country house hotel, set i...

We've been away for a few days, having a short break in our favourite hotel near Dumfries (an area which currently has low rates of COVI...

  This is a fascinating and engrossing story of Ryabitsev's ecological studies of willow warblers and the very similar arctic warblers i...

 We visited Blackford pond yesterday and were delighted to see the mute swans have a healthy family, with several cygnets having grown to fu...

   With an introduction that outlines the history and ecology of woodland in the British Isles, this book is a collection of thirty-two wood...

 There's a wonderful patch of porcelain fungi (Oudiemansiella mucida) in Craiglockart Dell along the Water of Leith. This patch has appe...