There may only be three of them now but the moorhen chicks are getting bigger, losing their fur and gaining their true feathers and, gradually, their independence.
Month: June 2025
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The sootballs are growing up
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Category: Birds -
Summer solstice
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Category: The Meadow
Bird’s-foot trefoil in the meadow, rosebay willowherb and hedge bedstraw around the edges. Happy summer solstice!
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Green, green, grass
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Category: Grasses
Cock’s-foot 
Common couch 
Crested dog’s-tail 
False oat-grass 
Floating sweet grass 
Meadow foxtail 
Perennial rye grass 
Rough meadow grass 
Sweet vernal-grass 
Timothy 
Tufted hair-grass 
Yorkshire-fog It all might just look like, well, grass, but when you look closer you’ll see a lot of variety, particularly at this time of year. They might not have the gaudiness of wildflowers but they have their own more subtle beauty. Here are the twelve species we’ve found at Tipton’s Croft. There may be more!
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Summer’s here
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Category: Tipton’s Croft
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They’re not moorhens!
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Category: BirdsOut of nowhere (well, probably a quiet corner of the island) a gang of day old mallard chicks has appeared. We’ve not seen any adults for a few days so they have been very secretive about the nest.