Tag: Cornwall

  • Stoat

    Stoat

    Windmill Farm is a good place to see Stoats. Photo: Richard Birchett

  • Mistle Thrush

    Mistle Thrush

    This Mistle Thrush found itself some tasty rowan berries near Gweek. Photo: © Richard Birchett

  • Carrion Crow

    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

  • Pale Butterwort

    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

  • Hobby

    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

  • Ring Ouzel

    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 […]

  • Cinnabar

    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

  • Merlin

    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

  • Red Campion

    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

  • Palmate Newt

    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 […]

  • Common Scurvygrass

    Common Scurvygrass

    From May to August, Common Scurvygrass can be found along the clifftops of The Lizard. Photo: Amanda Scott

  • Nuthatch

    Nuthatch

    Nuthatches fiercely defend their nesting sites. A bird of broadleaf woodlands, it is also a frequent visitor to garden birdfeeders. Photo: © Richard Birchett

  • Bog Asphodel

    Bog Asphodel

    This bright plant of boggy areas on the heathland puts on an amazing display in early summer. Photo: Amanda Scott

  • Badger

    Badger

    With its striking black and white striped head, the badger is one of our most instantly recognisable mammals. Photo: Caroline Legg, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  • Pallas’s Warbler

    Pallas’s Warbler

    This autumn and winter visitor to The Lizard was hanging out at Coverack’s sewage works in early 2019. Photo: Dougy Wright

  • Fly Agaric

    Fly Agaric

    It’s the picturebook ‘pixie toadstool’ – and there’s lots of it about in the autumn. Look for it in woodland. Photo: © Natural England/Peter Wakely