Daily Diary

A blustery start to the day, with winds gusting 49mph overnight. Even the sturdier branches of Sycamore and Holm Oak r...

I start off at the lower car park where I park the car, instantly I hear a Chiffchaff, Magpie, Robin, Blackcap, and Wr...

First day back from a week off, as I leave the car one can hear Robins, Jay, Wren, Chiffchaff, Blackbird, Wood Pigeon ...

The beautiful green and blue feathers of a Blue Tit are spotted moving through the now leafy scrub: Where fresh green ...

With another beautiful morning falling across the park, I half hope for a change in weather just to change up the star...

Another beautiful spring morning, with only the whisper of a breeze. The warm early morning sun warming as I head to t...

Another sunny morning falls across the park as I make my way out through the meadows. A long Goldfinch chirps away fro...

Another day of sunshine ahead. The ground has cracked where the clay soils have dried and contracted. Little piles of ...

Browsing on the fresh leaves of a Hawthorn bush was a female Roe Deer, her coat a dark brown, contrasting with her dir...

As I came out a Swallow was swooping across the blue sky – sunshine and a chilly easterly wind again. From the...

It’s a beautiful sunny day and this morning I decided to take a stroll through the Pleasure Ground Woodlands as ...

A fresh south-easterly breeze coming across the National Nature Reserve today, which along with the bright sunshine ma...

I start the diary from the castle to walk much of the Wildlife Trail to check the Waymarkers put up by one of our grea...

The downland was my aim for the early patrol, but not before casting my eyes skyward to watch a Kestrel manoeuvring &n...

A bright sunny morning with a cold north easterly breeze cutting through the warmth of the mornings sun. Heading out t...

To welcome in April, a lovely sunny, but chilly morning, the wind blowing in from the east meaning I sheltered behind ...

El sol brilla hoy! (‘the Sun is shining today’). Over the weekend, the clocks shifted an hour behind, prov...

It’s Spring Forward and after losing an hour’s sleep the beautiful seasonal weather can only put a smile o...

A proper spring morning with the warm sunlight yet to dry dew-covered grass. Fluffy fern-like leaves of Yarrow have sp...

A male Roe Deer was standing still, gazing ahead as if watching something. His antlers showing well against the sky. A...

As I drove in this morning, I followed a Red Legged Partridge running down the drive until it ducked into the hedge ro...

As I sit in my car putting my walking boots on, I hear many a bird chirping away, straight off I hear a Wren with it&r...

After the starry sky of last night, the fog covered was a bit disappointing, however through the merk came the sounds ...

It’s a very different kind of morning than it has been of late, the beautiful mild spring sunshine has turned in...

The sound of a Chiffchaff came to me through the air, the distinctive chiff and chaffs easily identified, this small w...

A beautiful sunny spring morning, with park run volunteers rushing around setting up for this morning’s event. I...

It’s a delight to see the cliffs bustling with activity, now that an abundance of seabirds have returned to bree...

What a fantastic early morning for my walk – a gentle easterly breeze and a brilliant blue sky, the air filled w...

I start the Wildlife Diary early, just past 07:30, the weather is fair with high cloud allowing some particles of the ...

A chilly wind blowing in across the sea from the south-east accompanied my early patrol around Durlston National Natur...