All posts tagged great chalfield

I wrote a short post a few weeks ago looking briefly at some of the galls I've discovered at Great Chalfield (where I live in North

Leopoldius signatus? Hopefully I'm about to sound like I know what I'm talking about, but - to be honest - that's only now, after several twitter conversations (thanks

I blogged recently about finding my first Rhingia rostrata, a distinctive hoverfly that is undergoing something of a strong range expansion (see the update here) and

There have been very few breaks in the poor weather lately (as anyone from the UK reading this will know already of course) but yesterday was a cracker,

Resisting the obvious pun is surely a sign of my growing maturity, but I will readily admit to a total 'immaturity' when it comes to knowing much about

A couple of weeks ago I noticed 'something' dark and rough, like crumpled ladybird exuvia perhaps, seemingly stuck to thistle stems across the Great Chalfield estate. When

Apropos of absolutely nothing at all, here are some random photos taken between July 4th and 18th at Great Chalfield in Wiltshire (VC7), the National Trust-owned estate

Picture the scene. I'm wandering around the garden in the one 30-minute period of sunshine all day when I spot a tiny bee or wasp munching on pollen,

Yesterday - in between rain showers - I wandered 50m down the road to the Leat, a 'moat' that runs past Great Chalfield Manor and was originally