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  • Lesser Celandine

    Lesser Celandine

    The bright buttery glint of Lesser Celandine in the hedgerows and fields is a welcome early sign of spring.  Photo: Amanda Scott

  • Three-lobed Crowfoot

    Three-lobed Crowfoot

    This speciality of muddy tracks and ruts on The Lizard starts to show its delicate, tiny white flowers in February and March. Photo: Amanda Scott

  • Dog’s Mercury

    Dog’s Mercury

    Found mainly in woodlands and hedgerows, Dog’s Mercury is far from showy, but is distinguished by being one of the earlier plants to flower each year. Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons  

  • Championing the Lizard’s rare liverworts

    Championing the Lizard’s rare liverworts

    The Lizard is justly recognised as a hotspot for mosses and liverworts, as much as it is for rare clovers, rushes and wild asparagus. This article explains more and highlights an exciting recent discovery. Although much is known about the rare wildlife of The Lizard, there is plenty more to be revealed and, as a recent…

  • Fulmar

    Fulmar

    Fulmars look superficially like gulls but are, in fact, related to Albatrosses. They can be spotted near to coastal cliffs, such as at Lizard Point. Photo: © Richard Birchett

  • Great Northern Diver

    Great Northern Diver

    Great Northern Divers are winter visitors to the seas of the Lizard. Photo: by P199

  • Oak Marble Gall

    Oak Marble Gall

    Oak Marble Galls, common on oak trees, are created by a parasitic gall-wasp. Photo: AnemoneProjectors, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  • Land Quillwort

    Land Quillwort

    Look out for the ‘Catherine Wheel’ leaf rosettes of Land Quillwort between autumn and spring, a plant that, in mainland Britain, is only found on The Lizard. Photo: Steve Townsend

  • Winter Heliotrope

    Winter Heliotrope

    This winter-flowering, vanilla-scented plant of waste places and roadsides is not native to Britain, but is a valuable source of nectar for emerging insects in the earliest days of spring. Photo: Steve Townsend

  • Dartford Warbler (article)

    Dartford Warbler (article)

    This small, dark, long-tailed warbler is a resident breeder in the UK but in low numbers. It has suffered in the past from severe winters: its population crashed to a few pairs in the 1960s, since when it has gradually recovered, increasing in both numbers and range. Image copyright: Vic Froome (rspbimages.com) It is still…

  • Rook

    Rook

    Rooks, familiar across the British countryside, also have an important place in our folklore. Photo: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt

  • Sand dunes: unsung heroes of coastal defence

    Sand dunes: unsung heroes of coastal defence

    Visitors to Poldhu Beach might be shocked to discover that much of the sand has disappeared following the storms and high seas at the beginning of January, unveiling a very stony beach and lots of beach litter. Thanks to Friends of Poldhu, the litter has all been removed, but it will take months, if not…

  • The Lizard’s Wildlife Web

    The Lizard’s Wildlife Web

    The Word Wide Web is increasingly becoming a wonderful medium to help wildlife spotting and for sharing information. Obviously there is nothing quite like getting out there and immersing yourself in the wonderful environment we have on our doorstep, but now there are many ways of discovering more and sharing experiences with like-minded folk. Here…

  • Sea Campion

    Sea Campion

    Sea Campion, a flower of early to mid-summer, flowers into the autumn on The Lizard’s clifftops. Photo: Amanda Scott

  • Mute Swan

    Mute Swan

    Watch for graceful Mute Swans on The Lizard. The creeks of the Helford River are a good place to look. Photo: © Amanda Scott

  • Greenfinch

    Greenfinch

    If you feed your garden birds, you probably won’t need to go far to see Greenfinches, a regular garden visitor, on The Lizard. Photo: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt

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