Tag: Cornwall

  • Oystercatcher

    Oystercatcher

    Oystercatchers are often spotted round The Lizard’s shoreline. Photo: © Allan Drewitt/Natural England

  • Red Fox

    Red Fox

    The Red Fox is largely nocturnal creature, but can sometimes be spotted in the daytime. Photo: © Richard Birchett

  • Early-purple Orchid

    Early-purple Orchid

    Early-purple Orchids enjoy the serpentine soils of the Lizard. Photo: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt

  • Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage

    Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage

    Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage is a low, spreading plant that lights up damp shady places with a golden glow in spring. Photo: Steve Townsend

  • Wood Anemone

    Wood Anemone

    Also known as Windflower, the Wood Anemone is a flower of early spring, found in woodland glades and old hedgerows.Photo: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt

  • Golden Hair-lichen

    Golden Hair-lichen

    It is always a pleasure to find the rare and beautiful Golden Hair-lichen. Kynance is a good place to search. Photo: Björn S…, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  • 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, […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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

  • 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. […]

  • Rook

    Rook

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

  • 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