Hoveton Great Broad – 26/08/17
A gentle rain is falling, bejewelling the leaves of the reeds with dozens of glistening white diamonds, sparkling as the sunshine tries to tear the canvas of thin cloud. The …
Hoveton Great Broad – 10/09/16
he sun wasn’t shining, but we made hay anyway. I felt like a medieval peasant, surrounded by the sweet smell of sedge and mulching reed in the graceful, flat fields …
Hoveton Great Broad – 30/08/16
A moorhen pattered across leathery lily pads, the ripples across the water joining those made by the rising bream catching flies, vacuuming them up from the sticky surface tension they …
The Naturalist’s Bedtime Book
This book was a present from my mother, who used to read me stories by BB (or Denys Pitchford-Watkins) when I was a child. His series of books based around …
Hoveton Great Broad – 19/08/16
It’s now been several weeks since I wrote my last report, and things have changed with a rapidity I hadn’t expected. I was away from the trail for the best …
Hoveton Great Broad – 13/05/16
The grey clouds and cold wind have descended today after a glorious week of teasing warmth and sunshine. The butterflies, bees, alder- and may-flies, which had been spurred on by …