Pretty Meadow Brown butterflies are everywhere at the moment. These two are getting a little romantic. :-) #Nature #Butterfly #Summer

First cuckoo flower! Love this little wildflower. Means our resident cuckoo is due to arrive back any time now. Must have heard the...

They're waking up. :-) #Nature #Trees #Spring #EcoHolidays

Spring is in the air - and love is in the air too if you're a frog. We have lots of frog spawn in the usual places and frogs everywhere...

The wildflower final hurrah of the year at Lough Mardal is dominated by this beauty. The Devil's-bit scabious. I've come to love it so...

We are very lucky to have wild bilberries growing along the shoreline and they are now ripe for picking! The girls actually managed to...

A small selection of the beautiful wildflowers that now dot the landscape at Lough Mardal #Wildflowers #Nature #Ecofriendly...

Cuckoo flower with teeny tiny orange specks that are the eggs laid by the orange tip butterfly. And two photobombing flies. And filthy...

The cuckoo is back! One of the loveliest sounds of Spring that stops you in your tracks. #Nature #Spring #Cuckoo #Birds

All the frog spawn was frozen when we went on our routine inspection today. Incl one frog (demonstrating Darwin's theory). Will the frog...

A lonesome snowdrop. Hard to imagine in a matter of weeks the place will start transforming with new colours as the wildflowers start...

Now that the cold weather has passed the ditches by the lakeshore here are teeming with frogs all getting down to business and putting on...

Big news, the sun came out today. So it was the first decent walk for days that didn't feel like an endurance test. Although usually...

Exceptionally fluffy catkins on this Willow tree by the lake. The toddlers think it's a candy-floss tree. Or maybe it's more they wish it...

Stunning Autumnal colours when the morning sun hits the forestry across the lake at the moment. Proving that grey days can be beautiful...

There was much excitement this morning at breakfast - the cuckoo is back! We have been looking forward to its arrival but weren't...