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Carrion Crow
Carrion Crows can be seen throughout the year. All too often maligned in popular culture, these are amazing and intelligent birds. Photo: © Natural England/Julian Dowse
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Pale Butterwort
A paler, smaller version of Common Butterwort, the Pale Butterwort is harder to find, but worth the search. Crousa Downs is a good place to look. Photo: Kate Dalziel
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Hobby
Hobbies fly with such agility and speed, they can even snatch swallows and swifts on the wing. Photo: Lilly M, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Ring Ouzel
This member of the thrush family is easily mistaken at a distance for its cousin, the Blackbird, but a closer look gives the game away. A passage migrant across The […]
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Cinnabar
Cinnabar moths are on the wing from mid-May to early August, and their yellow and black banded caterpillars munch on Ragwort through the summer. Photo: Amanda Scott
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Merlin
The Merlin is our smallest bird of prey, but it makes up for its size with lots of grit and steely determination. Photo: © Richard Birchett
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Red Campion
Red Campion is at its most vibrant from the spring into summer. Find it in woodland edges, hedgerows and roadside verges. Photo: Steve Townsend
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Palmate Newt
For those of you with garden ponds, keep an eye out for Palmate Newts enjoying the water in spring. Photo: Frank Vassen from Brussels, Belgium, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia […]
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Spangle gall
Spangle Galls, created by a parasitic wasp, are one of the many kinds of galls found on oak trees. Head to our section on invertebrates to find out more. Photo: […]
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Common Scurvygrass
From May to August, Common Scurvygrass can be found along the clifftops of The Lizard. Photo: Amanda Scott
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Oak Marble Gall
Oak Marble Galls, common on oak trees, are created by a parasitic gall-wasp. Head to our section on invertebrates to find out more. Photo: AnemoneProjectors, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia […]
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Nuthatch
Nuthatches fiercely defend their nesting sites. A bird of broadleaf woodlands, it is also a frequent visitor to garden birdfeeders. Photo: © Richard Birchett
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Do not disturb! Watch seals well – admire from a distance
The Lizard natural attractions are its wild coastlines and amazing marine life, including our globally rare grey seals. A glimpse of a seal makes a holiday. In Cornwall this summer, […]
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Romano-British settlement at Boden, near Manaccan
Meneage Archaeology Group – The excavation of a Romano-British settlement at Boden, near Manaccan. Following the excavation of an Iron Age fogou and Bronze Age house MAG are currently focussing […]
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Do not disturb! The growing threat to our seals
For local residents and the many visitors to The Lizard, the chance to see our seals swimming and diving, or hauled out on the rocks is one of the many […]
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Bog Asphodel
This bright plant of boggy areas on the heathland puts on an amazing display in early summer. Photo: Amanda Scott
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